Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief 

  • Charles L. Branch, MD, Executive Director, Spine Service Line, and Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

Managing Editor

  • Audrey Lusher, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Deputy Editors

  • James Harrop, MD, Jefferson University Hospitals, Philadelphia, Arizona, United States
  • Sheeraz Qureshi, MD, Hospital of Special Surgery, New York, New York, United States
  • Albert Telfeian, MD, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
  • Special Issues: Frank Phillips, MD, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Associate Editors

  • Kai-Uwe Lewandrowski, MD, Center for Advanced Spine Care of Southern Arizona, Tucson, United States
  • Morgan Lorio, MD, Advanced Orthopedics, Greater Orlando Area, Florida, United States
  • Choon-Keun "Alex" Park, MD, PhD, Leon Wiltse Memorial Hospital, Suwon, Kyung-gi-do, Republic of Korea

Senior Review Editors

  • Kiran Alluri, MD, Keck Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, California, United States
  • Jeff Arle, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  • Ali A. Baaj, MD, Banner University Medicine Neurosurgery Clinic, Phoenix, Arizona, United States
  • Junseok Bae, MD, Wooridul Spine Hospital Gangnam, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • Massimo Balsano, MD, Regional Spinal Department, University Hospital, Verona, Italy
  • Sean Barber, MD, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States
  • Mark Bilsky, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States
  • Erica F. Bisson, MD, MPH, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
  • Mo Bydon, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States
  • Brandon B. Carlson, MD, MPH, University of Kansas Medical Center, Overland Park, Kansas, United States
  • Victor W. Chang, MD, Henry Ford Health System, West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, United States
  • Boyle Cheng, PhD, Drexel University-AGH Campus, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Joseph S. Cheng, MD, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
  • Dean Chou, MD, University of California, San Fransisco, United States
  • Domagoj Coric, MD, Carolina Neurosurgery and Spine Associates; Carolinas Medical Center; Atrium Musculoskeletal Institute; Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
  • Kenneth Crandall, MD, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
  • Peter B. Derman, MD, MBA, Texas Back Institute, Plano, Texas, United States
  • John G. DeVine, MD, Augusta University Care Center West Wheeler, Augusta, Georgia, United States
  • James Dowdell, MD, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, United States
  • Steven Falowski, MD, Advanced Surgery Center of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Lisa Ferrara, PhD, OrthoKinetic Technologies, LLC, Southport, North Carolina, United States
  • John France, MD, West Virginia University Health Science, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States
  • Peter Gerszten, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Roger Härtl, MD, New York Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, United States
  • Robert F. Heary, MD, Mountainside Medical Center, Montclair, New Jersey, United States
  • Joshua Heller, MD, Jefferson University Hospitals, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Christoph P. Hofstetter, MD, University of Washington Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States
  • Jae Taek Hong, MD, PhD, Eunpyeong St. Mary's Hospital, Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • Meng Huang, MD, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States
  • Sravisht Iyer, MD, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, United States
  • Hyeun-Sung "Harrison" Kim, MD, PhD, Department of Neurosurgery, Nanoori Hospital Gangnam, Republic of Korea
  • Keung Nyun Kim, MD, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • Sanjay Konakondla, MD, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Michel Lacroix, MD, Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, United States
  • William Lavelle, MD, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States
  • Philip Louie, MD, Virginia Mason, Seattle, Washington, United States
  • Paul McAfee, MD, MBA, University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
  • Christopher J. Neal, MD, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Fredricksburg, Virginia, United States
  • Donna D. Ohnmeiss, DrMed, Texas Back Institute Research Foundation, Dallas, Texas, United States
  • Paul Park, MD, University of Michigan Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
  • Alpesh A. Patel, MD, Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States
  • Meic Schmidt, MD, MBA, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
  • Daniel M. Sciubba, MD, Northwell Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
  • Matthew Scott-Young, MBBS, FRACS, FAOrthoA, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia
  • Evan D. Sheha, MD, Stamford Health, Connecticut, United States
  • Ahilan Sivaganesan, MD, Jefferson University Hospitals, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Michael Song, MD, Advanced Neurosurgery, Reno, Nevada, United States
  • Michael Steinhaus, MD, Intermountain Spine Institute, Murray, Utah, United States
  • Wei Tian, MD, Beijing Jishuitan Hospital, Beijing, China
  • Huilin Yang, MD, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
  • Jim Yue, MD, Frank H. Netter School of Medicine, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut, United States
  • Jack Zigler, MD, Texas Back Institute, Plano, Texas, United States

Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

  • Hansen Yuan, MD, Professor Emeritus, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States

2021 Peer Reviewers

  • Mohamed Abdalla, MRCS, FRCS-SN, United Kingdom
  • Mohammad Abd-El-Barr, MD, PhD, United States
  • Samy Abdou, MD, United States
  • Nitin Agarwal, MD, United States
  • Michael Ahrens, MD, Germany
  • Takato Aihara, MD, PhD, Japan
  • Janardhana Aithala, D. Ortho DNB, India
  • Ali Akhaddar, United States
  • Humaid Al Farii, Canada
  • Mohammad Dursi Alfawareh, Jordan
  • Hider Al-Shami, Egypt
  • Kehinde Paul Alare, MBBS, Nigeria
  • Mohamed Alhashash, MD, Egypt
  • Zeiad Alshameeri, United Kingdom
  • Marcelo Campos Moraes Amato, MD, PhD, Brazil
  • Gunnar Andersson, MD/PhD, United States
  • Ali Araghi, DO, United States
  • Raj Arakal, MD, United States
  • Justin Arockiaraj, MD, Saudi Arabia
  • J.J.C. Arts, PhD, Netherlands
  • Farbod Asgarzadie, MD, United States
  • Joseph Asuquo, Nigeria
  • Selim Ayhan, MD, Turkey
  • Henrik Constantin Bäcker, MD, United States
  • Neil Badlani, MD, MBA, United States
  • Siddharth Badve, MD, United States
  • Hyun W. Bae, MD, United States
  • Junseok Bae, MD, Republic of Korea
  • Saleh Baeesa, MBChB, FRCSC, FAANS, Saudi Arabia 
  • Jamie Baisden, MD, United States 
  • Massimo Balsano, MD, Italy
  • Eli Baron, MD, United States 
  • Bryce Basques, MD, United States
  • Ted Belanger, MD, United States 
  • Joao Bergamaschi, MD, Brazil 
  • Pedro Berjano, Italy 
  • Kenneth R. Blank, PhD, MS, MHA, United States
  • Akwasi Boah, United States 
  • Michael Bohl, MD, United States
  • Byron C. Branch, MD, United States 
  • Ernest Braxton, MD, MBA, United States
  • Josip Buric, MD, Italy
  • Benedikt Burkhardt, MD, Germany
  • Abbott Byrd, MD, United States
  • Gustavo Carriço, MD, Brazil
  • Uphar Chamoli, B.Tech., MPhil, PhD, Australia
  • Qixin Chen, China
  • Wayne Cheng, MD, United States
  • Benjamin R. Childs, MD, United States
  • Dae-Chul Cho, MD, PhD, Republic of Korea
  • Gun Choi, MD, PhD, United States
  • Matt Colman, United States
  • Domagoj Coric, MD, United States
  • Thiago Coutino, United Kingdom
  • Kenneth Crandall, MD, United States
  • Jason Cuéllar, MD, PhD, United States
  • Reginald J. Davis, MD, United States
  • Rangel Roberto de Assis, MD, Brazil
  • Manuela D'Ercole, MD, PhD, Italy
  • Peter Derman, MD, United States
  • Harel Deutsch, MD, United States
  • Dennis Devito, MD, United States
  • Akira Dezawa, MD, PhD, Japan
  • Ricardo Diaz Romero Paz, MD, Spain
  • Ashish Diwan, MD, Australia
  • Alvaro Dowling, MD, Chile
  • Robert K. Eastlack, MD, United States
  • Esam Elkhatib, MD, PhD, Egypt
  • Emad Elmehy, Egypt
  • Mohamed Elnokaly, MD, PhD, Egypt
  • Thomas Errico, MD, United States
  • Antonio Paolo Fabrizi, MD, Italy
  • Christopher J. Fang, MD, United States
  • Rob Fassett, MD, Australia
  • Amir H. Fayyazi, MD, United States
  • Lisa Ferrara, DEng, United States
  • Richard Fessler, MD, United States
  • Brian Fiani, DO, United States
  • Michele Fiore, MD, Italy
  • Bruce Fredrickson, MD, United States
  • Sapan Gandhi, MD, United States
  • Rolando Garcia, MD, United States
  • Bhavuk Garg, India
  • Daniel Gastambide, MD, France
  • Fred Geisler, MD, PhD, United States
  • Hugo Giambini, PhD, United States
  • Enrico Giordan, MD, Italy
  • Vijay Goel, PhD, United States
  • Graham S. Goh, MBBS, MRCS (Edin), Singapore
  • Jeff Golan, Canada
  • Jacob Goldberg, United States
  • Matthew Gornet, MD, United States
  • Rick Guyer, MD, United States
  • Yong Hai, China
  • Subramaniam Macherla Haribabu, DNB, DIP.SICOT, India
  • Colin Harris, United States
  • Roger Hartl, MD, United States
  • Hamid Hassanzadeh, MD, United States
  • Robert Havey, United States
  • Andrew Hecht, MD, United States
  • Johan L. Heemskerk, MD, MSc, United States
  • Stefan Hellinger, Germany
  • Dong-Hwa Heo, MD, Republic of Korea
  • John Hipp, PhD, United States
  • Brandon Hirsch, MD, United States
  • Mike Hisey, MD, United States
  • Christopher Holland, MD, PhD, United States
  • Jae Taek Hong, Republic of Korea
  • Timothy Hresko, MD, United States
  • Jonathan Hyde, MD, United States
  • Takahiro Iizuka, Japan
  • Ahmet Celal Iplikçioglu, MD, Turkey
  • Sravisht Iyer, MD, United States
  • R. Dinesh Iyer, MS Ortho, India
  • Nikhil Jain, MD, United States
  • Michael Janssen, United States
  • Bradley Johnson, MD, Afghanistan
  • Anton Jorgensen, MD, United States
  • Chang-Il Ju, Republic of Korea
  • Ayhan Kanat, MD, Turkey
  • Brian Karamian, MD, United States
  • Ata Kasis, United States
  • Harish Kempegowda, MD, United States
  • Masoud Khadivi, MD, Iran
  • Ahmed A. Khalifa, MD, MSC, Egypt
  • Krishn Khanna, MD, United States
  • Nitin Khanna, MD, United States
  • Chi Heon Kim, MD, PhD, Republic of Korea
  • Daniel Kim, MD, United States
  • Hyeun Sung "Harrison" Kim, MD, PhD, Republic of Korea
  • Joo Han Kim, MD, PhD, Republic of Korea
  • Jin-Sung Kim, Republic of Korea
  • Keung Nyun Kim, Republic of Korea
  • Thomas Josheph Kishen, India
  • Scott Kitchel, MD, United States
  • Peter Klara, MD, PhD, United States
  • Michael W. Kortz, MDA, United States
  • Ajay Krishnan, MS, India
  • Richard Kube, MD, FACSS, FAAOS, CIME, United States
  • Donald Kucharzyk, DO, United States
  • Arvind Kulkarni, MS, India
  • Abhishek Kumar, MD, United States
  • Naresh Kumar, MBBS, MS(Orth), DNB, FRCS(Ed), FRCS(Orth), DM(Orth), Singapore
  • Hiroshi Kuroki, MD, Japan
  • Virginie LaFage, PhD, United States
  • Khai S. Lam, FRCS, United Kingdom
  • Todd Lanman, MD, United States
  • William Lavelle, MD, United States
  • Jean-Charles Le Huec, MD, France
  • Daniel Leas, MD, United States
  • Chul-Woo Lee, Republic of Korea
  • Dong-Ho Lee, MD, PhD, Republic of Korea
  • Hoyeon Lee, Republic of Korea
  • Jae Chul Lee, Republic of Korea
  • Joseph Lee, MD, United States
  • Sun-Ho Lee, Republic of Korea
  • Kai-Uwe Lewandrowski, MD, United States
  • Yingda Li, MBBS, BMedSc, PGDipSurgAnat, FRACS, United States
  • Isador H. Lieberman, MD, MBA, United States
  • Worawat Limthongkul, MD, Thailand
  • Elizabeth L. Lord, MD, United States
  • Morgan Lorio, MD, United States
  • Philip Louie, MD, United States
  • Daniel Lubelski, MD, United States
  • Christopher Lucasti, MD, United States
  • Sein Lwin, Singapore
  • Greg Malham, FRACS, Australia
  • Steven Mardjetko, MD, United States
  • Thierry Marnay, MD, France
  • Mohamed Maziad, MD, Egypt
  • Paul C. McAfee, MD, MBA, United States
  • Peter McCombe, FRACS, Australia
  • Lynn McGrath, MD, United States
  • Ankit Indravadan Mehta, MD, United States
  • Nishank Mehta, India
  • Helena Milavec, DrMed, Switzerland
  • Larry E. Miller, PhD, United States
  • Scot Miller, MD, United States
  • Jean-Pierre Mobasser, MD, United States
  • Bibhudendhu Mohapatra, MS, India
  • Don Moore, MD, United States
  • Rudolf Morgenstern, MD, PhD, Spain
  • Christian Morgenstern, MD, PhD, Spain
  • Rudolf Morgenstern, MD, PhD, Spain
  • Patrick Morrissey, MD, United States
  • Isaac Moss, MDCM, MASc, FRCSC, United States
  • Michael Musacchio, MD, United States
  • Harry Mushlin, MD, United States
  • Akshay Mylarappa, MD, India
  • Dick Nasca, MD, United States
  • David Nielsen, MBBS, BBiomedSc, FRACS, Australia
  • Colum Patrick Nolan, Singapore
  • Michael T. Nolte, MD, United States
  • Pierce D. Nunley, MD, United States
  • Yukoh Ohara, Japan
  • Donna D. Ohnmeiss, DrMed, United States
  • Farzad Omidi-Kashani, Iran
  • Saeed Oraee-Yazdani, Iran
  • Joe Ordia, MD, United States
  • Ali Fahir Ozer, MD, Turkey
  • Permsak Paholpak, MD, Thailand
  • Debasish Pal, FRCS, United Kingdom
  • Jwo-Luen Pao, MD, Taiwan
  • Choon-Keun (Alex) Park, MD, Republic of Korea
  • Si Young Park, MD, PhD, Republic of Korea 
  • Jeong-Yoon Park, Republic of Korea
  • Chun-Kun Park, MD, PhD, Republic of Korea
  • Peter G. Passias, MD, United States
  • Byapak Paudel, MD, MS, Nepal
  • Abhijit Pawar, MD, India
  • Nicolas Plais, MD, Spain
  • Kornelis Poelstra, MD, PhD, United States
  • David Polly, MD, United States
  • Yong Qiu, MD, China
  • Kris Radcliff, MD, United States
  • Thomas Raley, MD, United States
  • Harshavardhan Dilip Raorane, DNB, India
  • Afshin Razi, MD, United States
  • Gilad Regev, MD, Israel
  • Alejandro Reyes-Sanchez, MD, Mexico
  • Luis A. Robles, MD, Mexico
  • Geoffrey Rosenberg, FRACS, Australia
  • Augustus J. Rush III, MD, United States
  • Andrea Sambri, MD, Italy
  • Tolgay Satana, MD, United States
  • Alexander M. Satin, MD, United States
  • Byron J. Schneider, MD, United States
  • Bill Sears, Australia
  • Jonathan N. Sembrano, MD, United States
  • Dilip K. Sengupta, MD, United States
  • Jian Shen, MD, PhD, United States
  • Yong Shen, MD, China
  • Grant Shifflett, MD, United States
  • Peter Shin, MD, MS, MBA, United States
  • Kern Singh, MD, United States
  • Ravindra Singh, India
  • Justin S. Smith, MD, United States
  • William Smith, MD, United States
  • Ellen M. Soffin, MD, PhD, United States
  • Tariq Sohail, MD, Pakistan
  • Fabian Sommer, MD, United States
  • Seong Son, MD, PhD, Republic of Korea
  • Mike Sun, MD, United States
  • Albert Telfeian, MD, PhD, United States
  • Vo Van Thanh, MD, PhD, Vietnam
  • Nicholas Theodore, MD, United States
  • Alekos Theologis, MD, United States
  • Pat Tomak, United States
  • Parmenion Tsitsopoulos, MD, PhD, United States
  • Rushabh M. Vakharia, MD, United States
  • Thanut Valleenukul, Thailand
  • Mark Van Poppel, United States
  • Scott Cameron Wagner, MD, United States
  • Michael Wang, MD, United States
  • Peter Whang, MD, FACS, United States
  • Marcus Wong, MD, United States
  • Pang Hung Wu, MD, Singapore
  • Bao Shan Xu, MD, China
  • Huilin Yang, MD, China
  • Tarik Yazar, MD, Turkey
  • John Yeh, MD, FRCS, United Kingdom
  • Tony Yeung, MD, United States
  • Alex Yu, MD, United States
  • Elizabeth Yu, MD, United States
  • James Yue, MD, United States
  • Xifeng Zhang, MD, China
  • Jack Zigler, MD, United States
  • Scott Zuckerman, MD, PhD, United States

Updated March 2022