Spine Universe Author Biography

Dr. Perez-Cruet is a neurosurgeon and the Director of Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery at Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago. He is also the Associate Director of the Institute for Spine Care at Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet, Illinois.

Dr. Perez-Cruet received a master's degree in chemistry from the University of South Florida and his medical degree from Tuft's University in Boston. He completed a general surgery internship and a neurological surgery residency at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and a fellowship in minimally invasive spinal surgery at Rush University in Chicago under SpineUniverse Editorial Board Member Richard Fessler, MD. During his medical training, Dr. Perez-Cruet became a Major in the United States Air Force.

Dr. Perez-Cruet has held numerous academic appointments including Instructor, Trauma Course for Military Surgeons; Clinical Assistant Professor, Uniformed Services University of Health Science in Bethesda, Maryland; Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas; Clinical Instructor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Rush-Presbyterian St. Lukes Medical Center in Chicago; and currently holds the position of Assistant Professor and Director of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery at Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center Chicago/Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroresearch in Chicago, Illinois.

In addition to his medical practice, Dr. Perez-Cruet holds a variety of professional positions within such prestigious organizations as the Council of State Neurosurgical Societies (CSNS), the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS). He is also a member of the North American Spine Society, the American Medical Association, the American College of Surgeons, the Texas Medical Association, the Houston Neurological Society, the Bexar County Medical Society, and the Sigma Xi Research Society.

To date, Dr. Perez-Cruet is the author of a textbook on outpatient spinal surgery and has contributed to 16 textbook chapters. In addition, he has authored over 30 articles and abstracts in such noted publications as Neurosurgery and the Journal of Neurovascular Disease and has made 19 presentations at prestigious medical meetings across the country. He is currently the principal investigator in several clinical research studies on a wide variety of aspects of spinal surgery.

Dr. Perez-Cruet is fluent in Spanish and lives with his wife and family in the Chicago area.

SpineUniverse articles from Mick J. Perez-Cruet, M.D., M.Sc.

• Spine Centers: An Attractive Option for Patients
  A Spine Center is a freestanding surgical center designed specifically for outpatient spine surgery. For people with certain spinal conditions, all of their medical needs can be met under one roof.