Cedars-Sinai Spine Specialists Share Newest Research at SRS 2025

Clinicians and investigators from the Cedars-Sinai Spine Center will present new research at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Scoliosis Research Society, Sept.16-20 in Charlotte, North Carolina. All experts are available for interviews during and following the meeting.

Presentations will highlight advances in robotic-assisted surgery, pediatric spine outcomes, surgical navigation and surgeon wellness.

Cedars-Sinai Experts

David Skaggs, MD , co-director of the Cedars-Sinai Spine Center, executive vice chair of the Department of Orthopaedics, and director of Pediatric Orthopaedics, is an expert advancing surgical care for children with spinal deformities and trauma. He has developed multiple spinal implant systems and pioneered techniques now widely adopted in pediatric spine surgery.

Alexander Tuchman, MD , co-director of the Cedars-Sinai Spine Center and assistant professor of Neurosurgery, can discuss new research on cervical laminectomy versus laminoplasty, and navigation in pediatric scoliosis treatment. He treats rare spinal conditions such as achondroplasia, as well as sagittal plane deformities and flatback syndrome.

Kenneth Illingworth, MD , director of Pediatric Orthopaedic Trauma and a pediatric spine and orthopedic surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children's, specializes in the care of pediatric patients with complex spinal conditions and has a special interest in pediatric skeletal trauma in patients who have reached or are near skeletal maturity.

Terrence Kim, MD , co-medical director of Spine Education at Cedars-Sinai, specializes in minimally invasive and robotic spine surgery. He has expertise in image-guided spinal navigation and the treatment of cervical, thoracic and lumbar degenerative conditions, scoliosis and other spinal deformities, disc arthroplasty and replacement, and spinal trauma.

Christopher Mikhail, MD , assistant professor of Orthopaedics and director of Orthopaedic Spine Resident Education, focuses on optimizing spinal alignment with modern techniques, from complex deformity reconstructions to motion-preserving procedures.

Tiffany Perry, MD , co-director of Spine Oncology and vice chair of the Department of Neurosurgery for Spine and Education, can discuss new research being presented on guidelines for robotic-assisted spine surgery. She specializes in complex spinal disorders and spinal tumors and also investigates mechanisms of treatment for discogenic low back pain.

Justin Scheer, MD , spine neurosurgeon, will present new research on range of motion and kyphosis in adult spinal deformity patients. He is co-author of abstracts on several aspects of spinal fusion, use of machine learning, and adult spinal deformity surgical procedures-all of which are areas of focus in his clinical practice and his research.

Contact

To arrange interviews with Cedars-Sinai experts, contact Melissa Vizcarra at [email protected] or 719-502‐5001, or Christina Elston at [email protected] or 626-298-0702.