Oren Gottfried, MD. – Medical Advisory Board Member is a Professor of Neurosurgery at Duke University. He specializes in the surgical management of all complex cervical, thoracic, lumbar, or sacral spinal diseases by using minimally invasive as well as standard approaches for arthritis or degenerative disease, deformity, tumors, and trauma. He has a special interest in the treatment of thoracolumbar deformities and occipital-cervical problems and in helping patients with complex spinal issues from previously unsuccessful surgery or recurrent disease. He aims to improve surgical outcomes for his patients and care of all spine patients with active research evaluating clinical and radiological results after spine surgery with multiple prospective databases. He is particularly interested in prevention of spinal deformity, infections, complications, and recurrent spinal disease. He also studies whether patient-specific variables, including pelvic/sacral anatomy and sagittal spinal balance, predict complications from spine surgery.

Dr. Gottfried received his M.D. at the University of Arizona in 2001. He completed his residency and fellowship at the University of Utah and was an instructor of Spine Surgery and Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University.