Spine Leaders

David Rothbart, MD, is a board-certified neurosurgeon who specializes in minimally invasive techniques. He is the founder and medical director of the Spine Team of Texas in Southlake.

Scott Glaser, MD, is co-founder and president of the Pain Specialists of Greater Chicago. He has been elected twice to the national board of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and has served as president of the Illinois Society…

Arya Nick Shamie, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at University of California Los Angeles Health System. He is affiliated with the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica (Calif.). He is also an assistant professor of…

John Carrino, MD, is the chief of musculoskeletal radiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He is also an associate professor of radiology and orthopedic surgery.

Michael Skaliy, MD, is a pain management specialist and principle of Atlanta Spine Specialists in Lawrenceville, Ga. He is a member of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and International Society of Spinal Injectionists. He was the chief of…

Robert S. Bray, Jr., MD, is the founder and CEO of DISC Sports & Spine Center in Marina del Rey, Calif. He is a spine surgeon with a clinical interest in minimally invasive spinal procedures. Dr. Bray has performed more…

James Lynch, MD, is a spinal neurosurgeon and founder of SpineNevada in Reno. He serves as a partner and director of spine services at Regent Surgical Health and is a fellow of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. He has…

Ara Deukmedjian, MD, is the CEO and medical director of Deuk Spine Institute in Melbourne, Fla. He is a neuro-spine surgeon and an assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of Central Florida's College of Medicine in Orlando. He is…

Kenneth Pettine, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon at Loveland (Colo.) Surgery Center. He is co-founder of Rocky Mountain Associates in Orthopedic Medicine and the co-inventor and co-designer of the Maverick Artificial Disc, a patented disc replacement device for the…

Frank Phillips, MD, co-founded the Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush Minimally Invasive Spine Institute in Chicago, where he works with spine surgeons to treat a variety of spinal conditions. He specializes in the spine and has an interest in cervical and…