ASSI Education Committee

Role and Responsibilities:

• Conduction of ASSI PG teaching courses
• Conduction of Fellowship Entrance Exam with advertisement and timelines
• Conduction of & monitoring fellowship Exit Exam
• Coordination & Accreditation / Re-accreditation of Institutes
• Creating & monitoring Observership Programs

ASSI Program Committee

Role and Responsibilities:

• ASSICON, ICS, and ASSI Live Surgery Program formulation.
• International Society/ Meeting collaboration.
• Coordinating with other national meetings.
• Coordinating with other societies.

ASSI Research & Award Committee

Role and Responsibilities:

• ASSI CME and research online for FNB & Consultants
• Completion of Existing Research Programs
• Screening for Research Awards
• Evaluation of Research Awards
• Shortlist judges for evaluating applications for the Research Award
• Call for research projects in a format
• Monitoring & Managing Awards.
• Prepare a "Research Guidelines/Criteria" for inviting a new center/member in ASSI Multicenter Research Projects and the same should be published it on the ASSI website.
• There should be a separate webpage for “Research activities” which includes Completed/Ongoing and new research projects. This webpage links to the ASSI website.
• Should prepare a common proforma for writing a Research Proposal as well for multicenter studies.
• Prepare standard template for "Research presentations". This will ensure that all the important points have been covered.
• Encouraged to have a "Workshops on Research Methodology" on a virtual platform. ASSI as well as Guest faculty would be invited to facilitate the event. This will help to develop the research orientation amongst fellows.
• To collaborate or partner with other prestigious research organizations.

ASSI Nomination & Constitution Committee

Role and Responsibilities:

• Inviting application of vacant positions in EC
• Screening applications for ASSI events
• Creating eligibility criteria for various posts
• Constitutional issues/amendments
• As per the revised constitution - A total maximum of 15 life members will be elected as EC members by the Annual GBM. Right now we have total 14 EC members. Details below:
  • Immediate Past President
  • President
  • President Elect
  • Secretary
  • Immediate past secretary
  • Jt Secretary and
  • 08 Executive Member
• It was decided that one remaining member will be elected through election process during next elections.
• Revised eligibility criteria for various posts as decided in the last GBM such as:
  • The same EC member cannot be elected for the consecutive year. This has been added in the eligibility criteria.
  • One of the eligibility criteria for becoming the EC Member of ASSI and Editorial Board member of ISJ could be that members have published/submitted at least one original article in ISJ.
  • It may be made mandatory for the co-opted members of ASSI EC to publish/submit atleast one original article to ISJ.

ASSI Social Work Committee

Role and Responsibilities:

• Social Projects Continuation
• Identification of new social projects
• Coordination of all national social projects
• Fund Allocation and Utilization

ASSI Spine Registry Committee

Role and Responsibilities:

• Start of the new version 3
• Evaluation of accumulated data
• Identifying core group of Centres
• Follow-up data retrieval systems
• Thesis topic identification / allocation
• Link to website

ASSI Website Committee

Role and Responsibilities:

• Refurbishing existing website
• Creating patient information base
• Creating system of issuing mail alerts
• Creating payment portal & Value Added Subscription Services (VASS), Conferences etc.

ASSI Membership Committee

Role and Responsibilities:

• Initiate and create payment postal for the Value Added Subscription Services (VASS).
• To give focus on correcting ASSI members contact details
• We will start issuing membership points for active participation various ASSI activities. At the end of the year these points will be added to the members activity list. This will help us to keep track silent performance.

ASSI Advocacy Committee

Role and Responsibilities:

• Addressing medico-legal concerns
• Interacting with various regulatory authorities
• Health Awareness Programs
• Interaction with the media
• ASSI Consent Forms
  • Before uploading consent forms on the website, kindly get it vetted through Legal Advisory
  • Uploaded on the ASSI Website

ASSI Publications (Except Journals)

Responsibilities:

• Monograms
• ASSI theatre books

ASSI Task Force on Scoliosis Screening Program

ASSI Prevention of SCI / Brain Injury / Osteoporosis Task Force

Responsibilities:

• Injury Prevention Workshops
• Commemoration of SCI day on 5th September
• Start awareness campaign strategies
• Identify goals of SCI prevention, Head Injury Prevention, Osteoporosis awareness and prevention of osteoporotic fractures.

ASSI Elearnspine.org Task Force

ASSI Task Force on COVID 19

Responsibilities:

• Regular updates are being uploaded on the ASSI website on a monthly basis
• Create a questionnaire, in which you could collect responses from members about their experiences of taking COVID Vaccine.
• Write a paper in the ISJ Journal in this regard.

ASSI Capacity Development Program Task Force

ASSI Indian Spine Journal (ISJ) Task Force

Responsibilities:

• Symposium – Dr. Ankur Nanda to circulate future symposia topics to all concerned for approval
• Indexing: should focus on the Indexing process of ISJ with DOAJ on priority:done as I understand
• Request to Dr. VT Ingalhalikar to write Chronology of ASSI and publish in ISJ.
• Advertisements: should try to get advertisements for ISJ.
• Visibility of ISJ: increase the prestige and visibility of ISJ
• Start ISJ Award for Best published Paper.
• To check with the presenters of VTI award session to publish their study in ISJ.
• ASSI Fellows should have at least one publication in ISJ (Original article).
• One of the eligibility criteria for becoming the EC Member of ASSI and Editorial Board member of ISJ could be that members have published/submitted at least one original article in ISJ.
• Mandatory for the co-opted members of ASSI EC to publish/submit atleast one original article to ISJ.

ASSI Case Discussion forum Task Force

Role and Responsibility

• Development of Case Discussion mobile app
• Setting up some reward processes
• Looking on the expansion program covering the remote areas of the country in the form Different Wings of ASSI CONNECT.
• Planning to spread it to different Union Territories and other remote areas of our country.
• Upgrade of ASSI CONNECT to versatile ASSI Connect where App will be functional on mobile as well as on Laptop (on ASSI Web) with further additional new features.
• Club it with ASSI.elearnspine.org website

ASSI Outreach Program Task Force

Role and Responsibility

• Establishing a zonal distribution
• Structured Course Program
• Start working on already finalized cities for the Outreach program at
  • Pondicherry.
  • Darbhanga.
  • Siliguri.
  • Bhubaneswar.
  • Raipur.
• Could search options to do Outreach program with various regional societies and medical colleges too