Columbia Orthopedics faculty, fellows, and residents will present research and presentations at the 2024 AAOS Annual Meeting, in San Francisco, California, from February 12-16.
Chief of the Spine Division and Surgeon-in-Chief of The Daniel and Jane Och Spine Hospital, Lawrence G. Lenke, MD, was featured on CNN for his work in treating a complex spine case.
Lawrence G. Lenke, MD and K. Daniel Riew, MD, were featured in the latest newsletter from AOSpine. Dr. Riew is the Chair of AOSpine International and interviewed Dr. Lenke about his practice.
Dr. Lawrence Lenke and team won the Thomas Whitecloud Award at IMAST for their paper "The Relative Curve Correction is More Important than UIV Selection for Shoulder Balance in Lenke Type 1 and 2 AIS"
Dr. Michael Vitale of Columbia Orthopedics discuss when to diagnose scoliosis and how to treat it operatively/non-operatively on the NewYork-Presbyterian Och Spine Hospital website.
Michael G. Vitale, MD reviews pulmonary management, acute care, other organ involvement, ethical issues, medications, and the impact of new treatments for SMA.
The Spine Team established best practice guidelines using the consensus of 16-fellowship-trained spine surgeons to avert wrong-level spinal deformity surgery.