Spine Leaders

Thomas Mroz, MD, is director of the spine surgery fellowship at Cleveland Clinic as well as a practicing spine surgeon in the departments of orthopedic surgery and neurological surgery and the Center for Spine Health at Cleveland Clinic. He is…

Gunnar Andersson, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon and partner at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in Chicago. He is the Ronald L. DeWald, M.D. Professor and Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Rush University Medical Center in…

Scott D. Boden, MD, is the director of Emory Orthopaedics & Spine Center in Atlanta as well as professor and vice chair of the department of orthopedic surgery at Emory University School of Medicine.

  Akhil Jay Khanna, MD, MBA, is division chief of Johns Hopkins Orthopaedic and Spine Surgery in the National Capital Region and his practice is based in Bethesda, Md. He also serves as vice chairman of professional development in the…

Jeffrey A. Goldstein, MD, is the director of the spine service and director of the spine fellowship at NYU Langone Medical Center's Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York.

  Ziya Gokaslan, MD, is the director of the neurosurgical spine program and vice chair of the neurosurgery department at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore. He also serves as a professor of neurological surgery, orthopedic surgery and oncology.…

  Dean Karahalios, MD, practices with NorthShore Neurological Institute in Chicago and serves as an attending neurosurgeon at Evanston, Ill.-based NorthShore University HealthSystem and Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. In 2013, he was appointed as clinical associate professor at…

Steven R. Garfin, MD, is chairman of the department of orthopedic surgery and chief of spine surgery at University of California, San Diego. He is a past president of the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery and a…

Gregory Carlson, MD, is a general partner of the Orthopaedic Specialty Institute of Orange County, and he is also a clinical assistant professor of orthopedics at the University of California, Irvine (Calif.). He previously head up the spine surgery program…

Ian I.T. Armstrong, MD, is the medical director of Los Angeles-based Southern California Spine Institute. He is also an attending staff neurosurgeon at Center for Ambulatory Surgery and Treatment in Westwood, Calif.; Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles; and St. Johns…