Spine Leaders

Wayne Cheng, MD, is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon with a subspecialty in spine. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and practices at Loma Linda University Orthopaedic Group in San Bernadino, Calif.

William Abdu, MD, is the medical director of the Spine Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. He is also a member of the DHMC Board of Governors. He is an associate professor of orthopedics and of The Dartmouth…

John Kirkpatrick, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon with Shands Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla. He is also a professor and chair of the department of orthopedic surgery at the University of Jacksonville College of Medicine.

Brian R. Gantwerker, MD, is the president of The Craniospinal Center of Los Angeles. He is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, North American Spine Society and…

Andrew Cappuccino, MD, is a spine surgeon at Buffalo Spine Surgery in Lockport, N.Y., and has served on the medical staff of the Buffalo Bills for many years. He was one of the first surgeons in the state of New…

Here is a list of 10 spine surgeons in private practice in Florida to know. If you would like to recommend another spine surgeon for this list, please contact Laura at lmiller@beckershealthcare.com.

James Yue, MD, is co-director of the Yale Spine Center in New Haven, Conn., and director of the Center for Motion Preserving Spine Surgery & Studies. He was the first surgeon in New England to implant the ProDisc implant in…

Robert Shugart, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon at Fort Wayne Orthopedics in Indiana. He is also affiliated with Lutheran Hospital of Indiana in Fort Wayne.

Roger Hartl, MD, is an associated professor of neurological surgery and chief of spine surgery and neurotrauma at the Brain and Spine Center at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. He is the Leonard and Fleur Harlan Clinical…

James Macon, MD, is the clinical advisor at the MIMS Institute in South Easton, Mass., which is affiliated with the Swivel Port, made by Spine Surgical Innovation. He is a member of Framingham (Mass.) NeuroSpine.