Becker's Spine Review

40 Sign up for Becker's Orthopedic, Spine Business & Pain Management E-Weeklies at www.BeckersOrthopedicandSpine.com or call (800) 417-2035 50 Spine Surgeons Leading Scoliosis Development Behrooz A. Akbarnia, MD, is the medical director at the San Diego Center for Spinal Disorders and the fellowship director for the San Diego Spine Fellowship. He also founded Growing Spine Foundation. Howard An, MD, is a professor of orthopedic surgery and director of the division of spine surgery and spine fellowship program at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. He completed the traveling fellowship for the Scoliosis Research Society. Neel Anand, MD, is the director of orthopedic surgery at Cedars-Sinai Institute for Spinal Disorders in Los Angeles. He was among the first surgeons to perform a combination of three minimally invasive procedures to correct adult lumbar degenerative scoliosis. Vincent Arlet, MD, is a professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville and has a professional interest in treating scoliosis. He is also the creator of the online scoliosis database ScoliSoft. Randal R. Betz, MD, is a past president of the Scoliosis Research Society and an executive board member and founding member for the Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation. He practices with Shriners Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. Oheneba Boachie-Adjei, MD, is chief of the scoliosis service at Hospital for Special Surgery. He has been president of the Scoliosis Research Society and completed a fellowship at Twin Cities Scoliosis Center and Minnesota Spine Center in Minneapolis. Keith H. Bridwell, MD, is founder of the Center for Advanced Medicine and the Spinal Deformity Fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine. He served as president of the Scoliosis Research Society and co-founded the Spinal Deformity Study Group. 50 Spine Surgeon Leaders Focusing on Scoliosis Todd Albert, MD, is the director-at-large of the Scoliosis Research Society and the chairman of the department of orthopedics at Thomas Jefferson University and Hospitals in Philadelphia. He is the president of Rothman Institute in Philadelphia. Jonathan Camp, MD, established the Children's Bone & Spine Surgery to serve patients in need of pediatric orthopedic and scoliosis care. He completed a fellowship in pediatric orthopedic and scoliosis surgery at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital in Dallas.   David H. Clements, MD, is the director of the scoliosis program at Cooper University Health Care and director of orthopedic spine surgery. He is the treasurer for Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation. Christopher J. DeWald, MD, is a spine surgeon practicing with Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush. He has served as the chief of the section of spinal surgery/ scoliosis at the Hospital of Cook County in Chicago. John Dormans, MD, is the vice president of Scoliosis Research Society and the chief of orthopedic surgery at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He has research on scoliosis published in numerous book chapters and publications. Thomas Errico, MD, is the director of the Spine & Deformity Center and chief of the spine division at NYU Langone Medical Center. He served as president of the North American Spine Society and International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery. David Feldman, MD, is the chief of the division of pediatric orthopedics at New York University's Langone Medical Center, and he specializes in the care of children with scoliosis. He published studies on thoracic adolescent idiopathic scoliosis fusion. Robert Fitch, MD, is the chief of pediatric orthopedics at Duke Health in Durham, N.C. His clinical interests include pediatric and adult spine and deformity correction and he has published several research articles on the topic. Joseph Flynn, Jr., MD, is the chairman of the department of orthopedics at Orlando Health, and he is a spine surgeon for The Spine & Scoliosis Center. His research interest is in spinal deformity, as well as spinal instrumentation and presentation. Matthew Geck, MD, is the co-chief of Seton Spine and Scoliosis Center and has a professional interest in minimally invasive scoliosis reconstruction. He is also the co-founder and medical director of SpineHope, a charitable organization. Steven D. Glassman, MD, is a spine surgeon with Norton Leatherman Spine Center and professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Louisville. He is the president-elect of the Scoliosis Research Society and the past vice president.  Purnendu Gupta, MD, is medical director at Chicago Spine Center at Weiss and director of the spine center at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Scoliosis Research Society and conducts scoliosis-related research. David Gurd, MD, is the head of pediatric spinal deformity surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. He is an active researcher for improvements to scoliosis surgery and fracture care. He completed a fellowship at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas. Richard Hostin, MD, is the medical director at the Baylor Scoliosis Center in Plano, Texas. He is in the process of expanding the Scoliosis Center's research efforts to eventually train medical graduate fellows. Kamal N. Ibrahim, MD, is a clinical professor of orthopedics at Loyola University in Chicago and serves

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