Editorial Team
The management of our journal is a collaborative endeavor by the whole editorial team, featuring an active, widely respected, diverse, and representative Editorial Board. The editorial structure of the journal is listed as below and the roles and responsibilities of the editorial team are available at: https://www.amegroups.com/pages/journal-management#content-title.
Editor-in-Chief
Ralph J. Mobbs, BSc, MB, BS, MS, FRACS
Chair, NeuroSpine Surgery Research Group (NSURG), Sydney, Australia;
Head of Department of Neurosurgery, Prince of Wales Private Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Email: r.mobbs@unsw.edu.au.
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Kevin Phan, MD, BSc(Adv), MSc, MPhil
NeuroSpine Surgery Research Group (NSURG), Sydney, Australia
Associate Editors
Cristian Gragnaniello, MD, PhD, MSurgMAdvSurg FICS
Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
Matthew Pelletier, PhD
Surgical and Orthopaedic Research Laboratory (SORL), Prince of Wales Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia
Prashanth J. Rao, MBBS, MS, DNBMRCS
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia
Editorial Board
Darweesh Al-Khawaja, FRACS, HSDN, MD (Neurosurgeon)
Nepean Hospital and Norwest Private Hospital, Sydney, Australia
B. Sonny Bal, MD, JD, MBA, PhD
Orthopaedic Surgeon & Attorney, Columbia, MO, USA
Jonathon Ball, FRACS, BMed, BMedSc(Hons), GradDipBiomedE
Department of Neurosurgery, Royal North Shore and North Shore Private Hospitals, Sydney, Australia
Dean Chou, MD
Professor, and Vice Chair of Neurosurgery at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
Marc Coughlan, MBChB, FRACS, FCS
Department of Spine Surgery and Neurosurgery, Prince Of Wales Private Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Gordon Dandie, MBBS, FRACS
Department of Neurosurgery, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Ashish Diwan, FRACS, PhD
Chief of Spine Service, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, St George Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
Director of Bone Biology, Orthopaedic Research Institute, Sydney, Australia
Marcel Dvorak, MD, FRCSC
Professor of Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia;
Cordula& Günter Paetzold Chair of Clinical Spinal Cord Injury Research
Chet E Sutterlin III, MD, FACS
Clinical Professor, Dept Neurosurgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Founder, Spinal Health International, Sarasota, FL, USA
Ahmed K. Emara, MD
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Andrew J. Fabiano, MD
Roswell Park Cancer Institute, USA
Jacob Fairhall, MBBS, MS, FRACS, BSc (Med)
Prince of Wales Private Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Michael G Fehlings
Vice Chair Research, Department of Surgery, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Charles Fischer, MD, MHSC, FRCSC
Professor and Director of Clinical Research, Division of Spine in the Department of Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia;
President of the Canadian Spine Society
Yong Hai, MD
Professor & Chairman
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital¸ Capital Medical University of China
Ian Harris, PhD, FRACS, MBBS, MMed(Clin Epid)
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Whitlam Orthopaedic Research Centre, Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
Safdar N. Khan, MD
The Benjamin R. and Helen Slack Wiltberger Endowed Chair in Orthopaedic Spine Surgery
Chief of the Division of Spine in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Ohio, USA
Kee D. Kim, MD
Department of Neurological Surgery, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, USA
Hisashi Koga, MD, PhD
Department of Neurosurgery, Iwai FESS Clinic, Tokyo, Japan
Gun Woo Lee, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Yeungnam University Medical Center and Yeungnam University College of Medicine, Daegu, South Korea
Lawrence G. Lenke, MD
Professor of Orthopedic Surgery with Tenure
Surgeon-in-Chief, Daniel and Jane Och Spine Hospital at New York-Presbyterian/Allen
Chief, Spine Division, Columbia University, Dept. of Orthopedic Surgery
Chief of Spinal Deformity Surgery
Co-Director, Adult and Pediatric Comprehensive Spine Fellowship
NewYork-Presbyterian Och Spine Hospital, New York, USA
Andrew Lennox, MBBS, MSC, FRACS
Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Kai-Uwe Lewandrowski, MD
Center For Advanced Spine Care of Southern Arizona, Tucson, USA
Stephen Lewis
Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, 399 Bathurst Street, Room 442, First Floor, East Wing, Toronto, ON, M5T 2S8, Canada.
Gregory Malham, BSc, MBChB, FRACS
Neuroscience Institute, Epworth Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Akira Matsumura
Chief of Spine Surgery Division, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka, Japan
Laurence McEntee, MBChB, FRACS
Gold Coast Spine, Pindara Hospital, Gold Coast Private Hospital; Assistant Professor, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia
Ankit I. Mehta, MD, FAANS
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
Justin Pik, MB, BS, FRACS
ACT NeuroSpine Clinic, Canberra, Australia
Raoul Pope, FRACS, MBChB(Hons)
Neurosurgery and Spine Surgery, University of Notre Dame, Sydney, Australia
Matthias Pumberger
Deputy Chief of the Spine Department at the Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery at the Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Rajesh Reddy, MB, BS, MS, FRACS
Head of Department of Neurosurgery, Prince of Wales Private Hospital, Sydney Children’s Hospital
Pietro Ruggieri, MD, PhD
Full Professor and Chairman, Department of Orthopedics and Orthopedic Oncology at University of Padova
Davor Saravanja, MBBS, FRACS
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Macquarie University Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Lali Sekhon
Chief of Neurosurgery, Renown Regional Medical Center; President, ThinkFirst of Northern Nevada; Adjunct Clinical Professor, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Kern Singh, MD
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, USA
Martin N. Stienen, MD, FMH, FEBNS
Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
John Street, MD, PhD, FRCSI
Director of the Integrated Ambulatory Spine Program,Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
Lee A. Tan, MD
Department of Neurosurgery, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, USA
Albert Telfeian, MD, PhD
Department of Neurosurgery, Rhode Island Hospital, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Khoi Than
Neurosurgery and Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Mazda K. Turel
Department of Neurosurgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Daniele Vanni, MD, TA
Orthopaedic and Traumatology Department, University of Chieti, Chieti, Italy
Shih-Tien Wang, MD
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University; Division of Spine Surgery, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei
Jeffrey C. Wang, MD
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Neurosurgery; Chief, Orthopaedic Spine Service, USC Spine Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Mark Winder, MS, FRACS, BAppSc, MBBS(Hons)
St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia
Nan Wu, MD
Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing Key Laboratory for Genetic Research of Skeletal Deformity, Beijing, China
Ai-Min Wu, MD, PhD
Department of Orthopaedics, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children’s Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Key Laboratory of Orthopaedics of Zhejiang Province, The Second School of Medicine, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
Reza Yassari, MD, MS, FAANS, FACS
Spine Research Group, Monefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA; Department of Neurological Surgery, Monefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
Albert Yee, MD, MSc, FRCSC, DABOS
Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Anthony T. Yeung, MD
Desert Institute for Spine Care, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Scott L. Zuckerman, MD, MPH
Department of Neurosurgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
Managing Editors
R. Dineth Fonseka
NeuroSpine Surgery Research Group (NSURG), Sydney, Australia.
NeuroSpine Clinic, Prince of Wales Private Hospital, Randwick, Australia.
Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Wearables and Gait Assessment Research Group (WAGAR), Sydney, Australia
Science Editors
Hestia S. He
Editorial Office, Journal of Spine Surgery
Winnie Liu
Editorial Office, Journal of Spine Surgery
Kathryn Yan
Editorial Office, Journal of Spine Surgery