Spine Universe Author Biography

Hubert Labelle was born in Montreal, Canada in 1952. He received a Medical Degree in 1976 and completed a residency in orthopaedics at University of Montreal in 1981, followed by a two-year fellowship in pediatric orthopaedics at Sainte-Justine University Hospital in Montreal, Rancho Los Amigos Hospital in California, and Alfred I. DuPont Institute in Delaware.

Since 1982, Dr. LaBelle has been appointed in the Department of Surgery at University of Montreal and at Sainte-Justine University Hospital where he is currently Professor of Surgery and Titular of the Motion Sciences Research Chair at University of Montreal. His clinical work focuses on the evaluation and treatment of spinal deformities in children and adolescents. He is currently Chief of Orthopaedics, Chief of the Musculoskeletal Thematic Research team, a multi-institutional and interdisciplinary team, and Director of the 3-D Scoliosis Laboratory at Sainte-Justine University Hospital. His research interests concentrate on the 3-D evaluation and treatment of spinal deformities, with a particular emphasis on computer-assisted surgery, 3-D design and evaluation of braces for the treatment of idiopathic scoliosis, and 3-D evaluation and simulation of surgery for scoliotic deformities.

Dr. LaBelle has participated in more than 50 professorships and lectureships. In addition, he has had 190 peer-reviewed articles and more than 200 book chapters published.

SpineUniverse articles from Hubert H.L. Labelle, MD

• Molecular Classification of AIS Patients: Toward New Emerging Concepts in Molecular Medicine to Treat Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
  An abstract from the SRS 2005 Annual Meeting designed to assess the possibility to establish a molecular classification of AIS patients and to demonstrate the feasibility to correct this melatonin signaling defect using therapeutic compounds.
• The Importance of Spino-Pelvic Balance After Spinal Instrumentation for High Grade Developmental Spondylolisthesis
  An abstract from the SRS 2003 Annual Meeting on sagittal spino-pelvic balance.
• Thoracic Pedicles Morphometry in Vertebrae from Scoliotic Spines
  An abstract from the 2002 SRS Annual Meeting that looks at the changes occurring in thoracic pedicles affected by a scoliotic deformity.