The Maryland Spinal Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship is world-renown. To date it boasts more than 50 graduates who are currently leaders in Spinal Surgery, practicing around the world. The graduates include a one-star general in the Chinese Army and President of the 306th Aerospace Hospital of the People's Republic of China; the current President of the Spine Society of Australia; Chairmen of spine departments in Major US university programs; several Chiefs of Spinal Surgery in Japan; The Chief of Spinal Surgery at Hallym University in Seoul, Korea; and one Major in the US Army was our first graduate to parachute into an active combat zone (currently the Chief of Spinal Surgery in Madigan Army base in Seattle, WA. The goal of this fellowship is to provide individuals with the clinical experience and research background to initiate an academic career in reconstructive surgery of the spine.

The program is unique because the St. Joseph Medical Center spine service is a combined orthopaedic/neurosurgery service with most individuals having joint appointments in both departments. This fellowship provides a large volume of cervical spine cases and provides the fellow an opportunity to become comfortable in managing patients with neurologic deficits. In addition, we are a center for Motion Preservation so the fellow will become well-versed in the surgical techniques of cervical and lumbar disk replacement as well as posterior dynamic motion preservation.

The fellows have the opportunity to perform basic science research in an NIH-funded spinal biomechanics laboratory. At least one basic science research project is expected to emerge as a result of the fellowship experience.

During the course of the year, fellows will perform approximately 1,000 cases, including anterior cervical approaches, Mageryl transarticular C1-C2 fixation, Harm's C1 pedicle screws, corpectomies, diskectomies, costotransversectomies, thoracotomies, retroperitoneal decompressions, Percutaneous pedicle screws, scoliosis procedures, Spondylolisthesis reduction procedures, pedicular instrumentation, TLIF, minimally invasive TLIF, lumbar disk replacement, cervical disk replacement, and Dynesys type posterior dynamization motion restabilization procedures.

Please contact Kendra Perticone at spinefellows@aol.com for more information.

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