Becker's Spine Review

9 Becker's ASC 21st Annual Meeting – The Business and Operations of ASCs: For more information, call (800) 417-2035 A. Jay Khanna, MD, Division Chief of Johns Hopkins Orthopaedic Surgery — National Capital Region Dr. Khanna is division chief of Johns Hopkins Ortho- paedic Surgery — National Capital Region and vice chairman, professional development in the department of orthopedic surgery at Johns Hopkins University. He served as co-director of the division of spine surgery for seven years and is a professor in the departments of or- thopedic surgery and biomedical engineering. He has research interests in minimally invasive spine surgery and techniques, clinical and functional outcomes after spine surgery, spinal MRI and spine biomechanics. He holds three patents for spine devices and is active in mul- tiple research projects. He has published several research articles in profes- sional journals as well as book chapters related to spine surgery. Throughout his career, Dr. Khanna has served in several leadership posi- tions, including on the steering committee for the Value-Driven Engineering and U.S. Global Competitiveness Study Group. He is a member of the 2013- 2014 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Leadership Program and serves on the editorial board for SpineLine and as an associate editor of The Spine Journal. Dr. Khanna also sits on the Suburban Hospital Foundation Board of Trustees. Dr. Khanna earned his medical degree at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C., and completed his orthopedic surgery resi- dency at Johns Hopkins University Hospital and School of Medicine. His additional training includes a spine surgery fellowship at Cleveland Clinic. Choll Kim, MD, Director of the Minimally Invasive Spine Center at Alvarado Hospital, San Diego In addition to his role as spine center director at Al- varado Hospital in San Diego, Dr. Kim is an orthopedic spine surgeon at the Spine Institute of San Diego, an associate clinical professor at University of California San Diego and the founder of the Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery. He is a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and chair of the MIS Committee for the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery. Dr. Kim is a past voting member of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Orthopedic Device Panel and a qualified medical examiner. His clinical inter- ests include minimally invasive techniques for herniated discs, spinal stenosis, adult scoliosis and spondylolisthesis. He has published more than 200 articles. Dr. Kim earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School in Boston and completed a fellowship in spine surgery at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic. Robert Masson, MD, Founder of NeuroSpine Institute Orlando Dr. Masson began his practice in 1995 with a focus on microsurgery techniques in the spine. Through his ex- perience, he ultimately invented the iMAS surgical sym- phony for interpedicular minimal access surgery used in lumbosacral spinal reconstruction. He has been re- sponsible for the education, product development and research for DePuy Synthes Spine products and techniques. He is one of the chairman of surgeon training in the use of DePuy Synthes Spine's artificial disc — ProDisc — and has trained several hundred surgeons on minimally invasive surgical techniques. He has performed more than 11,000 microsurgical spine procedures and more than 4,000 minimally inva- sive lumbar spinal reconstructions and revisions during his career. Addition- ally, he has treated more than 700 patients with cervical disc arthroplasty and now devotes 100 percent of his practice to minimally invasive procedures. Beyond his interest in less invasive surgery, Dr. Masson is an international consultant for stem cell use in spinal injury and advocates for prehabilitation in the spine patient. As an artificial disc patient himself, Dr. Masson passion- ately advocates for a comprehensive fitness strategy for spine patients, even for spinal injury patients. He treats professional athletes spanning nearly all professional sports and was featured on the Discovery Health television pro- gram as an expert in neurological surgery. Dr. Masson earned his medical degree at the University of Florida in Gaines- ville and completed his neurological surgery residency at the University of Florida and Shands Hospital. His additional training includes a skull base surgery and neurotology fellowship at the House Ear Clinic in Los Angeles. Daniel Murrey, MD, CEO of OrthoCarolina Dr. Murrey has been the CEO of OrthoCarolina since July 2008. The practice includes 27 locations with or- thopedic, spine and sports medicine care. Seven of the locations also include urgent care services. More than 120 OrthoCarolina physicians see around 1 million pa- tients each year. As a board-certified spine surgeon, Dr. Murrey has had a successful clini- cal practice. But his leadership extends beyond the operating room; he has served as the Mecklenburg County commissioner and the headed the com- mittee for the 2012 Democratic National Convention, held in Charlotte, N.C. In March, OrthoCarolina partnered with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina on a bundled payment initiative for total knee replacement surger- ies. The partnership is expected to save 10 percent to 30 percent on the total cost of knee replacement. Dr. Murrey earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School in Bos- ton and completed his residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. He also completed a spine surgery fellowship at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte. Mick Perez-Cruet, MD, Chief of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery at Beaumont Hospitals, Royal Oak, Mich. Dr. Perez-Cruet is chief of minimally invasive spine surgery at Beaumont Hospitals and vice chairman, di- rector and professor of minimally invasive surgery and the spine program at Oakland University William Beau- mont School of Medicine. He practices with Michigan Head & Spine Institute. Formerly, he was director of minimally invasive spine surgery at Rush-Presbyterian, St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago. Currently, Dr. Perez-Cruet is the leader of the Minimally Invasive Neurologi- cal Society and is heading the society's annual meeting this summer. He is the principle investigator in several clinical trials and contributed to 16 textbook chapters. He has a national medical educational program found on the Neu- rological Surgeons website called "Gray Matter, A Neurosurgical Overview." Dr. Perez-Cruet authored the recently published textbook "Minimally Inva- sive Spine Fusion: Techniques and Operative Nuances" and has also written about outpatient spine surgery. During his early career, Dr. Perez-Cruet was vice chairman of the department of neurosurgery at Wilford Hall Medical Center on Lackland Air Force Base. Dr. Perez-Cruet earned his medical degree at Tufts University in Boston and completed his neurological surgery residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. His additional training includes a fellowship in minimally inva- sive spine surgery at Rush University in Chicago. Rick Sasso, MD, President of Indiana Spine Group, Indianapolis In addition to serving as president of the Indiana Spine Group, Dr. Sasso is co-medical director of St. Vincent Spine Center as well as clinical associate professor and chief of spine surgery at Indiana University School of Medicine in the orthopedic surgery department. Dr. Sasso has a professional interest in treatment and surgery of spinal dis- orders and abnormalities as well as in research involving spinal implants and techniques of minimally invasive spine surgery. He is a member of American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, North American Spine Society, Scoliosis Research Society and Cervical Spine Research Society. Dr. Sasso earned his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medi- cine in Indianapolis and completed his orthopedic surgery residency at the

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