Spine Leaders

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.

Richard Kube, MD, is a spine surgeon and founder of Prairie Spine & Pain Institute in Peoria, Ill. He is also a faculty member at the University of Illinois School of Medicine in Peoria.

George Picetti, MD, is a minimally invasive adult and pediatric spine surgeon with the Sutter Neuroscience Group and Sutter Neuroscience Institute in Sacramento. He is the head of minimally invasive spine surgery at the Sutter Children's Center.

Mesfin Lemma, MD, is the division chief of Johns Hopkins Orthopaedic and Spine Surgery at Good Samaritan Hospital and co-director of spine surgery. He is also an assistant professor in the department of orthopedic surgery at Johns Hopkins University.