Dr. Baaj focuses on minimally invasive spine surgery and his clinical interests include spinal stenosis, disc herniations, spondylolisthesis, adult degenerative scoliosis and deformity, spinal column and spinal cord tumors and spinal trauma.
“Minimally invasive spine techniques are certainly gaining more popularity in the academic and non-academic programs and more faculty and residents are exposed to these techniques,” said Ali A. Baaj in a Becker’s Spine Review article. “The residents and fellows are in part driving the demand for these technologies because they are eager to learn about them.”
Dr. Baaj earned his medical degree at Boston University School of Medicine and completed his residency in neurological surgery at University of South Florida in Tampa. He has also completed fellowships in complex spine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and in research at the spinal biomechanical laboratory at St. Joseph’s Hospital/Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix.
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