Area of research
Pathology and Forensic Medicine · Surgery
Research interest
Research interests include Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology, Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy, Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques, and Medical Imaging and Analysis.
Radiomics based on lumbar CT to identify high-risk patients for OVCF in postmenopausal women
Evaluating bone mineral density in osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures: the clinical utility of anterior column Hounsfield units
Gut microbiome dysbiosis is associated with lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis in symptomatic patients
Medicare procedural costs in ambulatory surgery centers versus hospital outpatient departments for spine surgeries
Spine surgeon perceptions of the challenges and benefits of telemedicine: an international study
COVID-19 and the rise of virtual medicine in spine surgery: a worldwide study
Telemedicine in Spine Surgery: Global Perspectives and Practices
The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Spine Surgeons Worldwide
Intelligence-Based Spine Care Model: A New Era of Research and Clinical Decision-Making
Preoperative paraspinal neck muscle characteristics predict early onset adjacent segment degeneration in anterior cervical fusion patients: A machine‐learning modeling analysis
Provider confidence in the telemedicine spine evaluation: results from a global study
Small molecule antagonist of C-C chemokine receptor 1 (CCR1) reduces disc inflammation in the rabbit model
<scp>COVID</scp>‐19: Current and future challenges in spine care and education ‐ a worldwide study
Learning from the past: did experience with previous epidemics help mitigate the impact of COVID-19 among spine surgeons worldwide?
Etiology-Based Classification of Adjacent Segment Disease following Lumbar Spine Fusion
Annulus fibrosus cells express and utilize C-C chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) for migration
There is no increased risk of adjacent segment disease at the cervicothoracic junction following an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion to C7
Characterization of degenerative human facet joints and facet joint capsular tissues
MicroRNA-146a reduces IL-1 dependent inflammatory responses in the intervertebral disc
A Biomechanical Comparison of Three Different Posterior Fixation Constructs Used for C6–C7 Cervical Spine Immobilization: A Finite Element Study
Lactoferricin mediates anti‐inflammatory and anti‐catabolic effects via inhibition of IL‐1 and LPS activity in the intervertebral disc
Damage accumulation location under cyclic loading in the lumbar disc shifts from inner annulus lamellae to peripheral annulus with increasing disc degeneration
Biomechanics of adjacent segments after a multilevel cervical corpectomy using anterior, posterior, and combined anterior-posterior instrumentation techniques: a finite element model study
Fibroblast growth factor control of cartilage homeostasis
New Treatments and Imaging Strategies in Degenerative Disease of the Intervertebral Disks
Improving the Clinical Evidence of Bone Graft Substitute Technology in Lumbar Spine Surgery
In Vivo Topographic Analysis of Lumbar Facet Joint Space Width Distribution in Healthy and Symptomatic Subjects
Toll-like receptor adaptor signaling molecule MyD88 on intervertebral disk homeostasis: In vitro, ex vivo studies
Initiation and progression of mechanical damage in the intervertebral disc under cyclic loading using continuum damage mechanics methodology: A finite element study
Corpectomy versus discectomy for the treatment of multilevel cervical spine pathology: a finite element model analysis