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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 Areospace 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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