Spine Universe Editorial Board

Doctor Brian R. Subach completed his undergraduate degree with honors from Kalamazoo College in Michigan before graduating from the University of Michigan Medical School with distinction in 1993. By that time he had achieved the Edgar A. Kahn Award for excellence in Surgery, the C. Gardner Child Award for excellence in Neurosurgery, and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He went on to complete a seven-year Neurosurgery Residency at the University of Pittsburgh and was given the Department's Resident Teaching Award for his performance. He received additional training in cerebrovascular surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas before going on to complete a post-graduate Fellowship in complex spinal surgery at the Emory Clinic in Atlanta. He is a diplomat of the National Board of Medical Examiners, a fellow in the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and is Board Certified by both the American Board of Neurological Surgeons (ABNS) and the American Board of Spinal Surgery (ABSS).

Dr. Subach has written extensively regarding both his clinical and laboratory investigations. To date he has authored more than 50 articles in peer reviewed journals, edited 15 textbooks, and has given hundreds of invited lectures at national and international meetings. He is currently a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), and the North American Spine Society (NASS). He participates in the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Neurotrauma and Critical Care, is active in the Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves, and is the Chairman-Elect for the Young Neurosurgeons Committee of the AANS and a member of the AANS Washington Committee. He is the current Chairman of the NASS Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery course and has been a longtime member of the American Medical Association.

Dr. Subach left his appointment as Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the Emory University Medical School Department of Neurosurgery in 2003 and has joined the Virginia Spine Institute in Reston, Virginia. His interests include artificial disc technology, minimally invasive techniques, bone morphogenetic protein (BMP), and resorbable spinal implants.

Brian R. Subach, MD, FACS is on the Spine Universe Editorial Board.

SpineUniverse articles from Brian R. Subach, MD, FACS

• Advancements in Biotechnology and Gene Therapy
  Read fascinating articles on advancements in Biotechnology.
• BMP: The What and the Who
  RhBMP-2 is a genetically engineered protein that both recruits bone forming cells and turns on local cells to the bone-making process. BMP is used for conditions requiring spinal fusion and stimulation of bone growth.
• Cervical Sports Injuries: The Stinger
  A stinger, sometimes called a burner, is an injury that occurs when the head or neck is hit to one side causing the shoulder to be pulled in the opposite direction.
• Laparoscopic Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion: Technical Note
  A case study from Emory University on the use of anterior lumbar interbody fusion.
• The Effect of Previous Discectomy on Outcome After Lumbar Spinal Fusion Surgery
  An abstract from the SRS 2005 Annual Meeting comparing patients after lumbar fusion surgery to their preoperative status.