Spine Leaders

Amir Vokshoor, MD, is a neurological spine surgeon practicing at DISC Sports and Spine Center in Marina del Rey, Calif. He has previously served as Woodland Hills (Calif.) Medical Center and has served as a North American board member of…

  Alan Moskowitz, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon at Kansas Orthopaedic Center in Wichita. He serves on the medical staff at Wesley Medical Center and Kansas Surgery and Recovery Center, both located in Wichita. He is also a clinical…

  Jim A. Youssef, MD, is the co-founder of SpineColorado in Durango, Colo., and practices with Durango Orthopedic Associates. He is a member of the American Orthopaedic Association, North American Spine Society, Orthopedic Trauma Association and Cervical Spine Research Society.…

Frank X. Pedlow Jr., MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon at Boston Spine Surgery and an associate professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He is the former chief of the orthopedic spine service at Massachusetts General…

Vedat Deviren, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon at University of California San Francisco Spine Center. He is also an assistant clinical professor orthopedic surgery at UCSF. He is one of the most experienced surgeons in the world in extreme…

Ronnie I. Mimran, MD, is a neurosurgeon who focuses on spine care practicing at Pacific Brain & Spine Medical Group in Danville, Calif. He is a member of Congress of Neurological Surgeons, North American Spine Society and AANS/CNS Section on…

Michael J. Yaszemski, MD, PhD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon as well as a principle investigator of Mayo Clinic's tissue engineering and biomaterials laboratory. He has previously served as chair of the American Orthopedic Association and Scoliosis Research Society. He…

Scott Spann, MD, is the founder of Westlake Orthopaedics Spine & Sports in Austin, Texas. He is also the chairman of spine surgery at The Hospital at Westlake Medical Center in Austin and founder of Pantheon Spinal, a medical device…

Matthew J. McGirt, MD, a spinal neurosurgeon practicing at Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Associates in Charlotte. He also serves as an adjunct research associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He previously served as an assistant…

Alpesh A. Patel, MD, a spine surgeon and associate professor in the department of orthopedic surgery at Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago. He provides care at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago and the Elmhurst (Ill.) Center for Health.…