Spine Leaders

Dustin M. Cole, MD, is an interventional spine specialist at Glenwood Springs, Colo.-based Brain Surgery & Comprehensive Spine Center.

Lucio Zamorano, MD, is a neurosurgeon and clinical professor of neurological surgery at Rochester, Mich.-based Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine and practicing at Detroit-based Michigan Brain & Spine Surgery Center.

David Rothbart, MD, is a neurosurgeon and medical director of Southlake-based Spine Team Texas, a practice he founded in 2004.

Daniel J. Tomes, MD, is a neurosurgeon at Lincoln-based The Nebraska Neurosurgery Group, where he specializes in spine, brain and peripheral nerve surgery.

Ying H. Chen, MD, is a neurosurgeon at Columbus, Ohio-based OrthoNeuro, where he specializes in spinal disorders with an emphasis on complex spine and microneurosurgical procedures of the spine.

Brian R. Gantwerker, MD, is a neurosurgeon and head of Santa Monica, Calif.,-based Cranio Spinal Center, where he specializes in treating degenerative and traumatic diseases of the spine, spinal and brain injury and brain tumors.

Richard N.W. Wohns, MD, is a neurosurgeon current president of Puyallup, Wash.-based NeoSpine, a practice he founded.

Nitin Khanna, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon at Munster, Ind.-based Spine Care Specialists who specializes in minimally invasive spine surgery with an operating microscope, cervical spine surgery, lumbar spine surgery, scoliosis, advanced spinal fusion techniques and motion preservation spine…

Anthony Yeung, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon at Phoenix-based Desert Institute for Spine Care, where he specializes in treating degenerative conditions of the lumbar spine such as herniated discs, bulging disc and annular tears and foraminal stenonsis.

Ravi Ponnappan, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon at Marlton, N.J.-based Jersey Spine Associates and clinical associate professor at Philadelphia-based Drexel University College of Medicine's department of orthopedic surgery.