Revision Spine Surgery (ePub)

Ali Baaj, MD is a neurosurgeon who specializes in spinal surgery, with advanced training and expertise in spinal oncology and complex reconstructive surgery for spinal deformity, and both minimally invasive spinal surgery and open complex spine surgery. Before joining the faculty at Weill Cornell, Dr. Baaj served as the director of the Spinal Neurosurgery Program at the University of Arizona at Tucson, where he led the clinical program and founded the multidisciplinary spine conference and spinal research fellowship program. Dr. Baaj was the neurosurgery faculty recipient of the Humanism in Medicine award in 2013 and 2014 while at University of Arizona. Dr. Baaj earned both Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Boston University before receiving his M.D. from Boston University College of Medicine in 2004. He completed a general surgery internship at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, followed by a neurosurgical residency at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Dr. Baaj received further training as a Research Fellow at the Spinal Biomechanics Laboratory at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix and as a Complex Spine Fellow at Johns Hopkins, with an emphasis on advanced techniques in spinal tumor resection and spinal reconstruction. He also completed a two-month traveling fellowship in Paris studying advanced techniques for pediatric deformity and scoliosis, with an emphasis on neuromuscular and idiopathic scoliosis. He is the lead editor of the best-selling, Handbook of Spine Surgery, now in its 2nd edition.

Gregory D. Schroeder, MD is Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He completed a two-year spine surgery and clinical research fellowship at the Rothman Institute at Thomas Jefferson University. He completed his orthopedic surgery residency program at Northwestern University in Chicago, and holds a Doctor of Medicine from Georgetown University School of Medicine.