Spine Leaders

Glenn L. Keiper, MD, is a neurosurgeon, and he founded KeiperSpine in Eugene, Ore. He also opened the Spine Surgery Center of Eugene in 2007 along with other associates, which is a spinal surgery-driven ASC. He is a member of…

Darrel S. Brodke, MD, is the vice chairman of the department of orthopedics at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City. He holds the Louis and Janet Peery Presidential Endowed Chair and also serves as the…

John Fickenberg, MD, practices with La Mesa, Calif.-based Alvarado/Helix Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine and serves as the acting director of the Spine Center at Alvarado Hospital Medical Center in San Diego. He is the past chief of orthopedic surgery at…

Sanford E. Emery, MD, MBA, is a professor of orthopedics and chairman of the department of orthopedics at the West Virginia University School of Medicine in Morgantown. He is the director of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and a…

Jeffrey S. Fischgrund, MD, is a spine surgeon at Beaumont Orthopaedic Center in Royal Oak, Mich. He is also a professor at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine in Rochester, Mich. He is a member of the American Academy…

Douglas Geiger, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon at Ann Arbor (Mich.) Spine Center and is on staff at St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor and Chelsea (Mich.) Community Hospital. He is a fellow of the Scoliosis Research Society and of…

Robert K. Eastlack, MD is a spine surgeon with the San Diego-based Scripps Clinic division of orthopedic surgery. He is a volunteer clinical instructor at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. He also offers his services to…

Mohammad Diab, MD, is chief of the division of pediatric orthopedic surgery at University of California San Francisco Benioff Children's Hospital. He also holds the endowed chair in medical education for the department of orthopedic surgery.

Edward J. Dohring, MD, is the medical director of Spine Institute of Arizona in Scottsdale. He has held several teaching positions, including at the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine at Midwestern University in Glendale. He is a fellow of the…

Francis Denis, MD, is a staff surgeon at Twin Cities Spine Center in Minneapolis. He is a member of a number of organizations, including the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Scoliosis Research Society, Orthopaedic Trauma Hospital Association and Minnesota Orthopaedic…