Spine Fellowship Program Curriculum
The Department of Neurological Surgery is proud to provide this CAST-accredited fellowship for those looking to train under world-class faculty in an affordable and vibrant city.
Our Curriculum
Fellows receive extensive exposure to spinal trauma, fracture management, degenerative disorders, spinal oncology, spinal deformity, spinal navigation, minimally invasive spine surgery including neuroendoscopic discectomy, cyberknife radiosurgery and spinal cord injury management. Fellows also have access to neuromuscular, neuroimaging, neurophysiology, cardiovascular and metabolic cores in our translational spinal cord injury program.
Research opportunities include:
- Spine outcomes research with access to Medicare, Marketscan and many administrative databases
- Spinal cord injury and spinal surgery clinical databases
- Spinal biomechanics research
- 3D printing applications in spinal surgery
- Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center with many animal models of spinal cord injury
- Epidural stimulation research program
- Porcine spinal cord injury research programs
- Extensive opportunities exist for clinical research supported by an infrastructure of research coordinators, statisticians, IRB and grants management and editorial support.