Spinal Surgery

Technical Skills
The fellowship’s primary emphasis is ensuring that the fellow has the highest level of technical expertise possible.

• Pathology includes:
  • Deformity
  • Degenerative
  • Tumor
  • Infection
  • Trauma
• Performance/techniques that will be mastered include:
  • Posterior Screw Fixation
    • Cervical Lateral Mass
    • Thoracic and Lumbar Pedicles
    • C1-C2
    • Occiput
    • Pelvic Fixation
  • Anterior Abdominal
  • Anterior Thoracolumbar
  • Anterior Cervical
  • Posterior Cervical Foraminotomies
  • Thoracic OstotranVersectomies
  • Vertbrectomies-Cervical, Thoracic, and Lumbar
  • Minimally Invasive
    • XLIF
      • Lumbar
      • Thoracolumbar
    • Tube Decompression
    • Pedicle Screws
  • Wiltse Muscle-Splitting Lumbar Fusions
  • Intra-Dural Spinal Tumors
  • Osteotomies
    • Three Column
    • Multiple Chevron

Performance Skills
The fellowship incorporates an athletic performance coach to implement performance skills in the operating room utilizing the “Awake at the Wound” program.

Awake at the Wound Model
Skill = Performance – Interference

• Awake at the Wound
  • Introductory Seminar
  • Ongoing Intra-Operative Coaching
  • Individual Coaching