Spine Leaders

Daniel J. Sucato, MD, is chief of staff at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas and also serves as director of the Sarah M. and Charles E. Seay/Martha and Pat Beard Center for Excellence in Spine Research. He…

Mark S. Stern, MD, is a neurosurgeon practicing with Southern California Institute of Neurological Surgery in Escondido. He is an active member of the American Association of Neurosurgeons, California Neurosurgeons Association, San Diego Academy of Neurosurgeons and American Medical Association.…

Edward K. Nomoto, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon practicing at Beverly Hills Spine Surgery in Los Angeles. He is also an attending surgeon at St. John's Health Center, Santa Monica, Calif., and a spine surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center…

Kris B. Siemionow, MD, is chief of spine surgery and assistant professor of orthopedics and neurosurgery at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He has an active interest in spine devices and has been awarded several patents for developing technologies…

Morgan P. Lorio, MD, established Neuro-Spine Solutions in Bristol, Tenn., along with John Testerman, MD. He also serves as an assistant clinical professor at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City. He is a member of the North American Spine…

Brian Cuddy, MD, practices at Charleston (S.C.) Neurosurgical Associates. He also serves as a clinical professor of neurosurgery at Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston and as chief of staff at Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital in Greenville, S.C.…

David A. Wong, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon practicing with Denver Spine Surgeons in Greenwood Village, Colo. He also serves as director of the advanced center for spinal microsurgery at the Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center in Denver. He is…

Matthew Gerlach, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon at Longmont, Colo.-based Front Range Orthopedics. He also provides care at Avista Adventist Hospital in Louisville, Colo., Boulder (Colo.) Community Hospital and Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center in Lafayette, Colo. He is…

Laurence E. Mermelstein, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon practicing at Long Island Spine Specialists in Commack, N.Y. He has hospital privileges Huntington (N.Y.) Hospital, St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown, N.Y., and Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center…

Richard Marc Spiro, MD, is co-director of the Butler-based Pennsylvania Brain and Spine Institute, before which he served as the director of adult spine services at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. At UPMC, he also served as a clinical…