Slide the arrows to see what endoscopic spine surgery can do for your patient (L2-L3 Interlaminar Endoscopic Decompression)
Global Endoscopic Spine Summit - 2026
The Global Endoscopic Spine Summit (GESS) in Mumbai is a premier international forum dedicated to the rapidly evolving field of minimally invasive spine surgery.
With 2 days of cadaver workshops and 2 days of live surgery, an opportunity to learn the latest technological advances in spine surgery is within your grasps.
4th to 7th June, 2026 in Mumbai
Global Endoscopic Spine Summit - 2026
The Global Endoscopic Spine Summit (GESS) in Mumbai is a premier international forum dedicated to the rapidly evolving field of minimally invasive spine surgery.
With 2 days of cadaver workshops and 2 days of live surgery, an opportunity to learn the latest technological advances in spine surgery is within your grasps.
4th to 7th June, 2026 in Mumbai
Slide the arrows to see what endoscopic spine surgery can do for your patient (L2-L3 Interlaminar Endoscopic Decompression)
OUR PAST CONFERENCES
Our First Operative Spine Forum in 2016
Our First Conference was held in Nanavati Hospital in Mumbai. For our delegates we had experts in spine surgery from all over India as well as Dr. Neel Anand from Los Angeles. Our focus during that conference was minimally invasive deformity correction and minimally invasive interbody fusion.
With more than 50 delegates and more than 8 live surgeries, the delegates went home with knowledge and expertise in the latest of minimally invasive spine surgery
Operative Spine Forum - 2017
Our Second iteration of the operative spine forum focused on deformity correction. 3 stallwarts from the United States (Dr. Neel Anand, Dr. Munish Gupta and Dr. Suken Shah) as well as more than a dozen national faculty from all over India showcased their skill to the delegates and performed live surgery on 18 patients.
National Endoscopic Workshop in Spine - 2018
The 3rd edition of the Operative Spine Forum had us focusing on Endoscopic Techniques where we hosted international faculty from Brazil, Thailand and Japan and had more than 10 live surgeries to help delegates learn more about transforaminal endoscopic spine surgery.
We had more than 50 delegates and more than 10 live surgeries performed at Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai
Operative Spine Forum - 2025
The Latest edition of the Operatuve Spine Forum featured 8 live surgeries and a cadaver workshop dedicated to scoliosis correction and endoscopic spine procedures. Planned over 3 days, delegates got to experience transforaminal, interlaminar and cervical endoscopic procedures as weel as deformity correction with our faculty from the UK, Dr. Jwalant Mehta
So Whats New With GESS -2026?
2 Cadaver Courses
Dedicated to Endoscopy
International Faculty
National Faculty
Dedicated Lectures
Network Building
Dr. Vinod Agrawal
Organising Secretary
It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Global Endoscopic Spine Summit which occurs at the 10 year anniversary of us starting this endeavour to establish a global partnership in spine surgery. We hope to get more young surgeons involved in minimally invasive spine surgery so that they can pass on these benefits to their patients.
Faculty at GESS - 2026
Dr. Kang Taek Lim
Dr. Lim is one of the pioneers of endoscopic spine decompression and has been the president of the Korean Endoscopic Spine society. He has pioneered most of the endoscopic instruments and techniques used today.
Dr. Prasad Patgaonkar
Dr. Prasad is the founder of the EndoSpine360 philosophy, a network of clinics across Indore, Mumbai, and Surat. He is constantly contributing to endoscopic spine literature in renowned journals.
Dr. Sukumar Sura
Dr. Sukumar is widely regarded as a pioneer in the field of Endoscopic spine surgery in India. He currently serves as the Chairman and Managing Director of the Asian Spine Hospital in Jubilee Hills
Dr. Arun Bhanot
Dr. Bhanot is leading the spine department at CK Birla Hospital in Delhi. He was among the first in the country to adopt and standardize full endoscopic techniques.
Dr. Alex Lu (Taiwan)
Dr. Alex Lu is at the forefront of the cervical endoscopic spine movement in Taiwan and is furthering endoscopic spine with his research and teaching at conferences.
Dr. Akhror Yakubov (UZ)
Dr. Yakubov is a distinguished neurosurgeon in Uzbekistan.
His work has shifted the
regional standard of care to high-precision endoscopic interventions.
Dr. Shomansur Shatursunov
Dr. Shatursunov from Uzbekistan is at the forefront of shifting spinal care in Central Asia toward "Ultra-MISS" techniques. He is one of the organisers of CASMISS.
Dr. Bhupesh Patel
Dr. Patel is the Director of Asian Superspeciality Hospital. He
is an expert at UBE, Transforaminal and Interlaminar endoscopic spine surgery and advocates patient selected approach.
Dr. Saidileep Viswanadha
Dr. Saidileep is an expert endoscopic spine surgeon from Vishakhapatnam in India. He aims to make endoscopy easily accessible to all surgeons and is the founder of Neuracube.AI.
Dr. Pramod Lokhande
Dr.Lokhande is one of the pioneers of endoscopic spine surgery in Western India and
has been actively involved in teaching interlaminar and transforaminal endoscopy
Dr. Aniruddh Agrawal
Dr. Aniruddh has over 27 peer reviewed articles and is an expert at interlaminar endoscopic spine surgery. His special interest is in development of endoscopic spine instruments.
Dr. Kang Taek Lim
Dr. Lim is one of the pioneers of endoscopic spine decompression and has been the president of the Korean Endoscopic Spine society. He has pioneered most of the endoscopic instruments and techniques used today.
Dr. Alex Lu (Taiwan)
Dr. Alex Lu is at the forefront of the cervical endoscopic spine movement in Taiwan and is furthering endoscopic spine with his research and teaching at conferences.
Dr. Sukumar Sura
Dr. Sukumar is widely regarded as a pioneer in the field of Endoscopic spine surgery in India. He currently serves as the Chairman and Managing Director of the Asian Spine Hospital in Jubilee Hills
Dr. Prasad Patgaonkar
Dr. Prasad is the founder of the EndoSpine360 philosophy, a network of clinics across Indore, Mumbai, and Surat. He is constantly contributing to endoscopic spine literature in renowned journals.
Dr. Arun Bhanot
Dr. Bhanot is leading the spine department at CK Birla Hospital in Delhi. He was among the first in the country to adopt and standardize full endoscopic techniques.
Dr. Akhror Yakubov (UZ)
Dr. Yakubov is a distinguished neurosurgeon in Uzbekistan.
His work has shifted the
regional standard of care to high-precision endoscopic interventions.
Dr. Shomansur Shatursunov
Dr. Shatursunov from Uzbekistan is at the forefront of shifting spinal care in Central Asia toward "Ultra-MISS" techniques. He is one of the organisers of CASMISS.
Dr. Bhupesh Patel
Dr. Patel is the Director of Asian Superspeciality Hospital. He
is an expert at UBE, Transforaminal and Interlaminar endoscopic spine surgery and advocates patient selected approach.
Dr. Saidileep Viswanadha
Dr. Saidileep is an expert endoscopic spine surgeon from Vishakhapatnam in India. He aims to make endoscopy easily accessible to all surgeons and is the founder of Neuracube.AI.
Dr. Pramod Lokhande
Dr.Lokhande is one of the pioneers of endoscopic spine surgery in Western India and
has been actively involved in teaching interlaminar and transforaminal endoscopy
Dr. Aniruddh Agrawal
Dr. Aniruddh has over 27 peer reviewed articles and is an expert at interlaminar endoscopic spine surgery. His special interest is in development of endoscopic spine instruments.
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