Spine Leaders

Freddie Contreras, MD is a neurosurgeon at the Neurological Associates of Texarkana (Texas)  where he has practiced medicine since 1987.

Stanley Jones, MD, is a spine surgeon at the Houston Orthopedic & Spine Hospital and the director of spine care services at Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston. He's board certified in orthopedic surgery and is an associate clinical professor at…

Kee Kim, MD, is the chief of spinal neurosurgery at the University of California Davis Health System. He is a board-certified neurosurgeon with an expertise in dealing with challenging spinal disorders. He has experience in complex spine surgery, including tumor,…

Kenneth Pettine, MD, founder of The Spine Institute and Loveland (Colo.) Surgery Center is hosting an event with Paradigm Spine to support spine surgery in ASCs and help further educate surgery center owners.

Carl Lauryssen, MD, is board-certified neurosurgeon by both the American and the Canadian Boards of Neurological Surgery. He is the co-director of spine research and development at Olympia Medical Center in Los Angeles. His research and surgical interests focus on…

William Tobler, MD, is a board-certified neurological surgeon and the chairman of the board of managers at The Christ Hospital Spine Surgery Center in Cincinnati.

Praveen Mummaneni, MD, is a board-certified neurosurgeon at the University of California San Francisco. He is the director the of cervical spine program, director of the minimally invasive spine program, director of the minimally invasive and complex spine fellowship program,…

Dr. Melamed is the co-director of the spinal surgery program at D.I.S.C. and a board-certified orthopedic surgeon concentrating on disorders of the spine in children and adults. He is also the spine consultant at Shriner’s Hospital for Crippled Children in…

Dean Karahalios, MD, is a neurosurgeon with NorthShore University Health System in Evanston, Ill. He specializes in treating back and neck pain and his subspecialty is complex spinal surgery. He has special clinical interests in image-guided surgery, minimally invasive techniques,…

Ken Yonemura, MD, is a board-certified neurosurgeon who practices at the Lakeview Hospital in Bountiful, Utah. He's also a part of the Wasatch Neurological Surgery Clinic in Bountiful. Dr. Yonemura is the chair of the North American Spine Society Professional…