It is our great pleasure to welcome you in 2014 annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research held in Kyoto, from April 17th to 19th, 2014.

I am writing this email because I'd like to inform you about English poster session at the next annual meeting of JSSR in Kyoto, April 2014. International Committee of JSSR has established “English Poster Award” to recognize best English poster presentations by researchers. Award recipients will receive a prize of \100,000 (maximum 5 persons). We encourage submission of abstract in “English Poster Session”. http://www.congre.co.jp/jssr2014/english/callforpapers.html

Abstract Submission Period; August 29 – October 22, 2013

We hope your young colleagues to submit the abstracts in this English Poster Session. As you are one of the leaders of spine surgeons in your country, we expect you to inform this to other spine surgeons, especially young doctors. If you have any enquiries, please feel free to send e-mail to me.

Thank you very much for your time.

Best regards,

Yasutsugu Yukawa, MD,

Chairman of International Committee of JSSR

Director of Department of Orthopedic Surgery

Chubu Rosai Hospital

1-10-6 Komei, Minato-ku, Nagoya,

Aichi, 455-8530 Japan

TEL: +81-52-652-5511

FAX: +81-52-653-3533