President’s Message

Dr. Saumyajit Basu
President - ASSI
Head, Department of Spine Surgery,
Program Director of Spine Fellowships.
Kothari Medical Center. Kolkata, INDIA

It is a proud privilege for me, as President of our society, to translate this tumultuous effort of setting up this fantastic academic knowledge portal into reality. The Association of Spine Surgeons of India (ASSI) remains committed to the goal of spreading education and awareness in spinal disorders and hence this effort will go a long way towards this mission. This portal shall address the needs of the medical professional as well as the lay consumer with equal importance and the information available would be equally beneficial to both.

"Let’s accelerate the movement to serve our constituency."

The professional and consumer modules will lead to various sub-modules which will take you through every aspect of spinal disorders be it surgical or non-surgical and would offer a comprehensive guideline towards a solution. More than 100 medical professionals, predominantly spine surgeons, have contributed to this resource which aims at providing state of the art knowledge, ready to be used as and when required.

I take this opportunity to personally thank all the contributors for their time and passion – along with this; I would like to acknowledge the tireless efforts of Dr H. S. Chhabra for conceiving, steering and completing this project. Special mention should be made of Dr Tarun Suri, without whose involvement, this portal would not have seen the light of the day. I am thankful to Mr Om Parkash Grover, Ms Neema Bisht for their secretarial support and Mr Himanshu Arya for his technical know-how for creating the web-based portal. The best recognition of our efforts would come with your utilization of this website and your revert with constructive ideas on how to improve this forum further.

Long Live ASSI, Jai Hind!