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10 Becker's ASC 21st Annual Meeting – The Business and Operations of ASCs: For more information, call (800) 417-2035 University of Texas Medical School in Houston. He has completed spine fel- lowships at Northwestern University in Chicago, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Nick Shamie, MD, Director of Spine Surgery at the University of California Los Angeles Health Arya Nick Shamie, MD, is chief of orthopedic spine sur- gery as well as an associate professor of orthopedic sur- gery and neurosurgery at University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine. He also serves as director of quality and compliance at UCLA's department of or- thopedic surgery. He is a past president of the American College of Spine Surgeons and currently serves on its board of directors. Dr. Shamie is involved in educating fellows and he is a reviewer for the Medi- cal Board of California. He has a professional interest in ankylosing spon- dylitis, artificial disc, spinal cord injury, spinal infections, sciatica, scoliosis, kyphoplasty and disc herniation. He serves on the editorial boards of The International Journal of Spine Surgery and Spine. Dr. Shamie is active in research and has served as the principal investigator for the X-Stop Interspinous Spacer FDA five-year outcome study from 2007 to 2012. He is currently the medical director of the Superion FDA clinical trial. He has won numerous awards over the course of his career, including the Scoliosis Research Society Dawson Traveling Fellowship. Dr. Shamie earned his medical degree at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago and completed his residency in orthopedic surgery at St. Mary's Hospital and Medical Center in San Francisco. He has also completed fel- lowships in spine surgery and bone research at UCLA School of Medicine. Paul Slosar, MD, President of SpineCare Medical Group, Daly City, Calif. Dr. Slosar leads SpineCare Medical Group and serves as co-director and medical director of the SpineCare Insti- tute of San Francisco. He also serves as an oral board ex- aminer for the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery and American Board of Spine Surgery. Within his practice, Dr. Slosar is interested in motion- preservation and implant surface technologies. He has collaborated with device companies to develop and improve spine surgery technology. His in- terest also extends to emerging healthcare delivery models and he has been working on bundled payments for spine care within his group. In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Slosar serves on the board of directors for the American Board of Spine Surgery and The Spinal Research Foundation. He is a frequent instructor of new technologies and techniques and was select- ed by the Medical Board of California as an expert reviewer in spine surgery. He also serves on the editorial board for Spine, along with other medical journals. Dr. Slosar earned his medical degree at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and completed his orthopedic surgery residency at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill. His additional training includes a spine fel- lowship at The San Francisco Spine Institute and SpineCare Medical Group. William Tobler, MD, Director of Neurosurgery at The Christ Hospital Health Network, Cincinnati Dr. Tobler also serves as chairman of the board of managers at The Christ Hospital Spine Surgery Center in Cincinnati. In addition, he practices with Mayfield Clinic, Cincinnati. He is a member of numerous professional soci- eties, including American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Society of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and North American Spine Society. Dr. Tobler's clinical interests include discectomy, spinal fusions, decompres- sions, artificial disc replacements, outpatient minimally invasive lumbar spine fusions, minimally invasive deformity corrections and chiari malformations. Dr. Tobler's work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, such as Jour- nal of Neurosurgery: Spine and Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. He also serves as a consultant for Integra LifeSciences and Zimmer Spine. Dr. Tobler earned his medical degree at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and completed residencies at University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Christ Hospital, Children's Hospital Medical Center and Good Sa- maritan Hospital, located in Cincinnati. Alexander Vaccaro, MD, Rothman Institute, Philadelphia Dr. Vaccaro is a senior member of the Rothman Institute. He also serves as vice chairman of the department of orthopedics at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia and co-director of the hospital's Spine Fel- lowship Program. He is the co-director of the Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center of Delaware Valley and presi- dent of the Association for Collaborative Spine Research. As a spine surgeon with special knowledge of spinal cord injury, Dr. Vaccaro has treated several professional athletes and serves as assistant team physician for the Philadelphia Eagles. He is a past president of the American Spinal In- jury Association. He also received a PhD in 2007 in the field of spinal trauma. Throughout his career, Dr. Vaccaro has published more than 530 peer-re- viewed and 195 non-peer reviewed publications. He edited more than 44 textbooks and was co-editor of the OKU-Spine I and editor of OKU-8. His research includes several topics in spine, such as disc herniation, spinal frac- tures and nonoperative spinal treatment. Dr. Vaccaro earned his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C., and completed his orthopedic surgery residency at Thomas Jefferson University. His additional training includes a spine fellowship at the University of California, San Diego. William Watters III, MD, Bone and Joint Clinic of Houston Dr. Watters is president of the North American Spine Society as well as clinical associate professor for the departments of orthopedic surgery at both the Univer- sity of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He previously served as chairman of the orthopedic surgery department at Kelsey-Seybold Clinic in Houston. Dr. Watters serves on the board of directors of the North American Spine Society. He also serves as treasurer of the American Board of Spinal Surgery and as chairman of the Guidelines Oversight Committee for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. He sits on the advisory board of The Bone and Joint Decade and serves as representative to the National Quality Forum for AAOS. Dr. Watters is board-certified and is an attending surgeon at Foundation Sur- gical Hospital and St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston. He serves on the editorial advisory board of The Spine Journal. Dr. Watters earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School in Boston and completed his orthopedic surgery residency at University of Pennsylva- nia in Philadelphia. Douglas Won, MD, Director and Founder of SpineC- ARE, Irving, Texas Dr. Won was among the first surgeons in Texas to perform endoscopic laser spine surgery with a 3mm incision. He is the founder of SpineCare, which includes 12 locations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and is affiliated with Star Medical Center, a surgical hospital in Plano. The practice has treated more than 20,000 patients successfully. In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Won focused on research and the development of innovative spine care. He has published articles in several scientific journals and lectured internationally on spinal disorders. He also developed new minimally invasive techniques and serves as an expert for CBS Radio. He is currently exploring new options for expanding his group. Dr. Won earned his medical degree at the University of Texas, Galveston and completed his residency at Washington University in St. Louis. His additional training includes a fellowship in orthopedic spine and neurospine surgery at William Beaumont Spine Center in Royal Oak, Mich., and additional train- ing in spinal deformities at Washington University. n