Dr. Han Jo Kim is an Attending Spine Surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery New York with an interest in cervical spine and spinal deformity surgery. He is a Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College where he holds the David B. Levine MD Endowed Chair and serves as the Fellowship Committee Chair for the Hospital for Special Surgery and Spine Fellowship Director. He attended medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons followed by residency at the Hospital for Special Surgery and a Spine Fellowship in Cervical Spine and Spinal Deformity Surgery at Washington University in St. Louis.

Dr. Michael Kelly is the director of scoliosis and spinal deformities in the Division of Orthopedics & Scoliosis at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego. Dr. Kelly received his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and completed his orthopedic surgery residency at UC San Francisco. He later completed two spine fellowships including the complex spinal deformity fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis. He has more than 150 peer-reviewed publications focused on improving outcomes for pediatric and adult spine surgery.

Richard Hostin, MD is a board-certified, spine surgery fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon whose practice focuses on treatment of complex adult and pediatric spinal deformity. His research interest focuses primarily on health economics and outcomes in treatment of adult spinal deformity.

Dr. Naobumi Hosogane is an Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at National Defense Medical College in Tokyo, Japan. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at Keio University in Tokyo where he completed medical school, postgraduate school, and orthopedic surgery residency as well as spine fellowship. He spent a year as a research fellow at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York in 2007.

Dr. Kojo Hamilton attended to the University of Maryland College Park and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry with high honors. He received his medical degree and residency training from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville under the chair and program directorship of Dr. Jane Sr. He underwent further subspecialty training in complex spine, spinal deformity, scoliosis, and spine surgical oncology, with a combined neurosurgical and orthopedic (AOSpine) fellowship, at the University of Virginia.

Munish C. Gupta, MD, MBA, joined the world-renowned Spine Department at Washington University in 2015 as the M. B. Simon Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Professor of Neurological Surgery. He received his medical degree from Northwestern University after completing the accelerated 6-year combined BA, MD Honors Program.

Dr. Jeff Gum completed his orthopedic surgery residency at University of Louisville and his spine fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. His clinical interests include adult and pediatric spinal deformity. Research interests include clinical outcomes in spinal surgery and the economics of spinal deformity surgery.

Dr. Adam Kanter serves as Associate Executive Medical Director, Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute and Chief of Neurosurgery, Hoag Specialty Clinic. His practice focus is on lateral access surgical techniques and minimally invasive interbody fusion.

Dr. Robert Eastlack is Head of the Division of Spine Surgery at Scripps Clinic, Director of Clinical Research for the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, and Co-Director for the Spine Fellowship Training Program at Scripps Clinic and the San Diego Spine Foundation in San Diego. He is Past President/Current Board member of the San Diego Orthopaedic Society, and a member of the International Spine Study Group, focused on adult deformity and minimally invasive research in spine surgery.

Dr. Bassel Diebo is a Spine and Scoliosis Surgeon and the Director of Spine Research and Innovation at Brown University. Dr. Diebo treats all spine disorders and scoliosis conditions across adolescence and adulthood, including degenerative spinal conditions (stenosis and spondylolisthesis), and spinal curvatures such as scoliosis, kyphosis, and lordosis. His areas of focus are complex and revision spinal reconstruction, flatback syndrome, adolescent and adult scoliosis, Hip-Spine Syndrome, full-body three-dimensional alignment, and posture.

Jenny De Jong, MSN, RN, CCRC, is a Project Manager on the administrative team for the ISSG. Prior to her work with the ISSG, De Jong had a career in nursing, with several years of inpatient nursing experience in Ohio and California. After that, she began working alongside Dr. Christopher Shaffrey and Dr. Justin Smith at the University of Virginia, as a clinical research coordinator, focused mainly on spine research.

Dr. Alan H. Daniels is a Board-Certified spine surgeon who specializes in adult spinal deformity and other complex spinal disorders. He serves as Chief of Spine for the Orthopedic Department at Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital. He is also Spine Fellowship Co-Director and Associate Professor at Brown University.

Dr. Dean Chou is Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Columbia University, New York. He is Chief of the Spine Division, Spine Fellowship Director, and the Co-Director of minimally invasive scoliosis surgery at Columbia University Department of Neurosurgery/New York-Presbyterian Och Spine Hospital. He previously was on faculty at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) as a Professor of Neurosurgery and Orthopedic Surgery. After medical school at UCSF, he completed his residency in neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and a spine fellowship at the Barrow Neurologic Institute.

Thomas J. Buell, MD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery. He attended the University of Texas at Austin where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering. After graduation, he worked as an electrical engineer before attending Baylor College of Medicine. He completed his neurological surgery residency at the University of Virginia and a spine fellowship at Duke University.

Chris Baldus, RN MSN, is a Project Manager working with sites and investigators participating in ISSG Clinical Research Trials. Previously she managed a Clinical Trials unit focused on pharmaceutical management of osteoporosis at Washington University, St. Louis. She has almost 40 years’ experience spinal deformity care and management with the past 20 years in spinal deformity clinical research, including her role as Project Manager for the Adult Symptomatic Lumbar Scoliosis (ASLS) NIH RO1 trail. She has published three articles in peer reviewed journals and has co-authored approximately 40 additional articles.

Dr. Neel Anand serves as Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Co-Director of the Spine Center at the renowned Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He is also Director of the Fellowship in Comprehensive Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery and President of the Foundation for Research and Education in Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (FREMISS)

Dr. Burton attended Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas and received his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine in Dallas. He completed his orthopedic residency at the University of Kansas Medical Center, in Kansas City and his spine fellowships at Texas Back Institute in Plano, Texas and Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.

Dr. Justin Smith completed the MD, PhD program at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He subsequently completed his neurosurgery residency at the University of California San Francisco and spine surgery fellowships in the areas of spinal deformity and minimally invasive spine surgery. He is currently Harrison Distinguished Professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA and serves as Chief of the Spine Division, Vice Chair for Research, and Director of the Spine Fellowship.

Dr. Christopher I. Shaffrey graduated magna cum laude from The Citadel in Charleston, SC with B.S. degree in biology. He played varsity basketball and was the co-captain his senior year. In 1986, Dr. Shaffrey received his medical degree from the University of Virginia. He completed his general surgical internship at Naval Hospital San Diego in 1987 where he was named the surgical intern of the year. He then completed both neurosurgical and orthopaedics residencies at the University of Virginia, followed by a spine fellowship in pediatric and adult reconstructive spine surgery in 1995.

Frank Schwab MD is the System Chief of Orthopaedic Spine Surgery at Northwell Health and the Chair of Orthopaedic surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. His clinical practice, research, education, and teaching efforts focus on complex spinal pathology, adult spinal deformity, and revision reconstruction procedures. He has pioneered many aspects of spinal deformity care, especially for patients with extensive surgical histories.