Nerve transfer surgery may be able to help regain upper limb function reanimation after subacute and chronic paralysis in patients with cervical spinal cord injury; larger trials are needed. ja.ma/3GXFXyx Saad Javeed

Another JAMA Network Open publication from the Zack Ray Lab, which developed a clinical decision support tool for early nerve transfer surgeries in patients with cervical spinal cord injury. Congratulations to Saad Javeed on this impactful work! WashU Med Taylor Family Department of Neurosurgery

Couldn’t have asked for a better inaugural course at #AANS2023 from faculty presentations to the packed room of participants!

Great session organized by Aladine Elsamadicy, MD . Glad I was able to play a small part.

Congratulations, Saad! Great work!

Heart is full after a successful dissertation defense yesterday. It was really special to be able to celebrate in-person and virtually with so many mentors, friends, and family.

Congratulations! Huge accomplishment and for all the great things ahead!

Congrats to our Postdoc Fellow Saad Javeed, MD (Saad Javeed) for receiving a Young Investigator Grant from the NASS. The award will allow Dr. Javeed and colleagues to clinically investigate electroactive instrumentation to enhance spine fusion. Center for Applied Neural Engineering

So excited to see this out! EMA pain research is exploding, but there is little evidence that momentary measures are reliable, valid, and/or useful for predicting pain outcomes.

Meta-analysis: Although patients with depression often had worse spinal disease severity, they typically experience meaningful improvement in spine-related disability after lumbar spine surgery. ja.ma/498px0Z Saad Javeed Jacob Greenberg, MD, MSCI

New study in JAMA Network Open from Dr. Jacob Greenberg (Jacob Greenberg, MD, MSCI), Dr. Saad Javeed (Saad Javeed) & colleagues shows patients with depression still have meaningful benefit from #lumbarspinesurgery.:bit.ly/3ScEHLH

New research from Wilson Ray, MD (Center for Applied Neural Engineering), Jacob Greenberg, MD (Jacob Greenberg, MD, MSCI), Chenyang Lu, PhD, and colleagues shows that new machine learning methods can more accurately gauge how patients may recover from lower back surgery.: bit.ly/4bLquOj WashU McKelvey Engineering

Exciting work just published revealing new insights into depression assessments in lumbar spine surgery. Great work by Braeden Benedict , and many others: Maddy Frumkin Burel Goodin Jay Piccirillo, MD Tom Rodebaugh Zoher Ghogawala , Center for Applied Neural Engineering journals.lww.com/jbjsjournal/fu…

Great meeting of the 2025 Tampa Spine Summit Scientific Program Committee at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons in Houston. Thank you for the SPC for the great ideas for coming up with an amazing program for 2025! Columbia Neurosurgery CNS AANS/CNS Spine Section

Shout out to our postdoc research fellow Salim Yakdan, MD, MSCI (Salim Yakdan, MD, MSCI), who was awarded Best Clinical Research Poster by CNS. Dr. Yakdan's research focused on mobile health assessment in the 1st month following lumbar spine surgery.:bit.ly/4iBy7eg

Albert Scholar Awards – Deadline: September 26, 2025 The Albert Scholar Awards, established in honor of Todd Albert, MD through the Todd Albert Honor Your Mentor Fund, recognize excellence in spine research by orthopedic surgery trainees. Award Details: 👉 Up to 30 awards will

👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️ Orthopedic Surgeons, Fellows & Residents — the 2026 Spine Summit (Feb 26–Mar 1, Phoenix, AZ) is your meeting too! Join colleagues from around the world for cutting-edge sessions on spine innovation, outcomes, and collaboration across neurosurgery and orthopedics. 📢 Don’t

🧠 Spine Summit 2026 – Scientific Program Committee at Work The Scientific Program Committee met today at the 2025 CNS Annual Meeting to refine an exceptional program for #SpineSummit 2026, coming February 26–March 1 in Phoenix, AZ. From groundbreaking research to hands-on

Original: Drs. Salim Yakdan, MD, MSCI, Greenberg et al. highlight the association between objectively measured physical activity and reduced risk of developing neck, low-back, and hip pain FREE: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Fantastic work by Salim Yakdan, MD, MSCI providing rigorous evidence regarding the role of physical activity in the development of musculoskeletal pain.