Dr. McGirt has a professional interest in complex and minimally invasive spinal surgery and spinal fusion as well as general neurosurgery. He is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, North American Spine Society and AO Spine North America. In 2013, he won the Sam Congress of Neurological Surgeons’ Hassenbusch Young Neurosurgeon Award and the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery’s Wiltse Award for best research paper.
“Medical and surgical spine care is first and foremost designed to help improve patients’ health status and quality of life,” said Dr. McGirt in a Becker’s Spine Review article. “Evolving our understanding of what works and what doesn’t in each setting for each individual patient is how we can begin evolve using intelligent analytics of outcomes data. We want to identify the right treatment, in the right patient, at the right time to optimize outcomes and reduce healthcare waste.”
Dr. McGirt earned his medical degree at the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C., and completed his neurosurgical residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where he also completed a spine fellowship.
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