Mohamad Bydon, MD, is the incoming chair of neurosurgery at UChicago Medicine.
He was named to the inaugural role in February and will step into the role July 1. Currently he’s a neurosurgeon at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic where he pioneered advancements in neurosurgical care, specializing in minimally invasive and robotic approaches to complex spinal conditions.
At Mayo he began its minimally invasive spine program in 2015 and established one of the nation’s first robotic spine programs in an academic setting in 2018.
Dr. Bydon also has 12 medical device patents and led first-in-human clinical trials for the regenerative treatment of spinal cord injury.
This year he has an “aggressive growth” approach for UChicago’s neurological surgery program.
Dr. Bydon is speaking at Becker’s 22nd Annual Spine, Orthopedic and Pain Management-Driven ASC + The Future of Spine Conference, set for June 18-21 at the Swissotel Chicago.
