NSGR - Engineering the Future of Spinal Surgery
At the end of this presentation, participants should be able to:
- Identify advances in image guided spinal surgery.
- Analyze outcomes for vertebral column shortening for tethered cord.
- Analyze the role of ultrasound in neurosurgery.
About the presenter:
Nicholas Theodore, MD
Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery
University of Arizona, Phoenix College of Medicine.
Physician Executive for the Neuroscience Service Line
Banner Health
Nicholas Theodore, MD is the Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Arizona, Phoenix College of Medicine. He is also the Physician Executive for the Neuroscience Service Line at Banner Health. He was most recently the Donlin M. Long Professor and Professor of Neurosurgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, and Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is Co-Founder of the HEPIUS Innovation Laboratory. He graduated from Cornell University and received a Cornell Tradition Academic Fellowship. He graduated from medical school with honors at Georgetown University and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) honor society.
After interning at Bethesda Naval Hospital, Dr. Theodore was a Senior General Medical Officer with the United States Marine Corps in Okinawa, Japan. He spent time on the clinical service at the NIH, working with Dr. Edward Oldfield, and completed his neurosurgical residency and fellowship under the direction of Drs. Robert Spetzler and Volker Sonntag at the Barrow Neurological Institute (BNI). He then served as Chief of the Division of Neurosurgery at Naval Medical Center San Diego, overseeing the largest neurosurgery complement in the Navy.
In 2003, he became the Director of the Neurotrauma Program and Associate Director of the Neurosurgery Residency Program at the Barrow Neurological Institute (BNI). From 2009 to 2016, he was a Professor of Neurosurgery, Chief of the Spine Section, and Director of the Complex Spine Fellowship at the BNI.