Capio Spine Center Stockholm hosted a three-day cervical spine surgery course in Sparsör, Sweden, from April 22 to 24, 2026.
During the hands-on cadaver dissection course, participants practiced both anterior and posterior approaches to the cervical spine. The course was designed to provide hands-on experience and practical learning opportunities for residents as well as senior surgeons. The faculty consisted of experienced neurosurgeons and orthopedic spine surgeons from prominent hospitals and institutions in Sweden and Iceland. The course was led by neurosurgeons Adrian Elmi-Terander and Erik Edström, both clinically active at Capio Spine Center Stockholm. The course was made possible through collaborations with Medtronic, Zeiss, PO-Medica, and Augmented Navigation.
The first edition of the course had been held in 2024 and received excellent reviews from participants. The second edition continued this success, bringing together professionals for an engaging and well-received learning experience.
The hands-on course
"Surgical Approaches to the Cervical Spine"
In collaboration with Capio Spine Center Stockholm, PO-Medica, Medtronic, and Augmented Navigation
Date: 22-24 April 2026
Place: Sparsör, Sweden

Dr. Adrian Elmi Terander is a senior consultant neurosurgeon and an associate professor of neurosurgery with over 20 years of experience. His main area of practice is spinal neurosurgery. His research is primarily centred on spine surgery, surgical techniques, and how to avoid complications, with a specific focus on surgical navigation technologies and augmented reality.

Dr. Erik Edström is an associate professor and senior consultant neurosurgeon specialising in pediatric and spinal neurosurgery. Research interests include the fields of adult, pediatric, and spinal neurosurgery. Focus areas are intraoperative imaging solutions, augmented reality neuronavigation, and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for neurosurgery.

Dr. Arvid Frostell is a consultant neurosurgeon and researcher at the
Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. His thesis was on Clinical
translation of a regeneration strategy for spinal cord injury. He has extensive
experience in microsurgical and minimally invasive methods.

Dr. Rafael T Holmgren is a senior consultant and head of pediatric neurosurgery at the Department of Neurosurgery, Linköping, Sweden. He has more than 20 years of experience in treating pediatric and adult spinal trauma, congenital malformations, deformities, tumors, and degenerative disease.

Dr. Halldór Skúlason is a neurosurgeon currently working at Landspitali University in Reykjavik, Iceland. He did his training in Iceland and at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm. He specializes in spine and vascular neurosurgery. His main focus in spine is cervical and lumbar. He has done research in spine navigation using augmented reality.

Dr. Magnus Hägge is a specialist in both ENT and neurosurgery, trained in Lund, Sweden, and Brisbane, Australia. With more than 20 years of experience, he is currently working as a consultant neurosurgeon in Lund,
Skånes Universitetssjukhus, with a particular focus on spine surgery, and at Aleris as a spine consultant.

