The Best Poster Presentation Award is awarded at the Canadian Spine Society’s Annual Scientific Conference. It is not awarded every year. The winner is awarded a $500 prize, funded by the Canadian Spine Society.

2026 The Best e-Poster Presentation Award

Dr. Drew Mulhall for his paper: Endoscopic Spine Surgery: A Scoping Review of the Literature

Drew Mulhall is currently a spine fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles. He completed orthopedic surgery residency at the University of Manitoba followed by fellowship at the Calgary Spine Program. His clinical interests are focused on minimally invasive surgical techniques and he hopes to integrate spine endoscopy into his future practice.

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Past Winners:

2024 – Mr. Daniel Wolfe
The immediate effect of a single treatment of neuromuscular electrical stimulation with the StimaWELL 120 MTRS system on multifidus stiffness in patients with chronic low back pain
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2023 – Varun Muddaluru
A Systematic Review of the Content and Structure of Composite Endpoints in Spine Surgery Interventional Trials
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2022 – Catherine Fleury
Pre-operative Cannabis Use in Canadian Thoracolumbar Spine Surgery Patients: a CSORN Study
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2021 – Samantha Visva
A CSORN Study: Comparison Between Primary and Revision Lumbar Decompression Outcomes
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2016 – Dr. Neil Manson & Ms. Eden Daly
Improved Data Capture and Quality Following Implementation of Standard Operating Procedures for a Single Site in the Canadian Spine Outcomes Research Network Database.
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