Spine Surgeon Leader to Know: Dr. William Tally of Athens Orthopedic Clinic

William C. Tally, MD, is a board-certified spine surgeon practicing at Athens (Ga.) Orthopedic Clinic. His hospital affiliations include Athens (Ga.) Regional Medical Center and St. Mary’s Health System in Athens. He also serves as a physician educator for a number of device companies, including Stryker Spine and Globus Medical. He serves on the editorial review board of the International Spine Journal.

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Dr. Tally is a member of Scoliosis Research Society, North American Spine Society and Society of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgeon. He focuses on scoliosis, deformity correction, oblique lateral lumbar interbody fusion, minimally invasive surgery techniques and endoscopic techniques. He also has a professional interest in cervical herniated discs and lumbar degenerative disc disease.

 

“As more surgeons are trained in [the outpatient ambulatory surgery center] setting, we are going to see a higher volume of both cervical and lumbar procedures performed in the outpatient setting,” said Dr. Tally in a Becker’s Spine Review article. “A bigger opportunity in the outpatient setting are lumbar procedures. When surgical techniques can be streamlined enough to reduce anesthesia time, and instrumentation is developed that can reduce the number of steps in a procedure (like OLLIF), we will facilitate the move of spinal fusions to the outpatient setting.”

 

Dr. Tally earned his medical degree at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C., and completed his orthopedic surgery residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. He has also completed a combined orthopedic/neurosurgical spinal reconstruction fellowship at Pennsylvania Hospital/University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and A.I. Dupont Children’s Hospital in Wilmington, Del.

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