Chris Baldus, RN MSN, is a Project Manager working with sites and investigators participating in ISSG Clinical Research Trials. Previously she managed a Clinical Trials unit focused on pharmaceutical management of osteoporosis at Washington University, St. Louis. She has almost 40 years’ experience spinal deformity care and management with the past 20 years in spinal deformity clinical research, including her role as Project Manager for the Adult Symptomatic Lumbar Scoliosis (ASLS) NIH RO1 trail. She has published three articles in peer reviewed journals and has co-authored approximately 40 additional articles.