AO Spine North America Board

Dr. Klineberg is a board-certified Orthopaedic surgeon and Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the UTHealth Houston. He has a busy clinical practice which is focused on spinal surgery with cases that range from minimally invasive discectomies and fusions to complex spinal oncology and deformity reconstructions. Dr. Klineberg has specific expertise in deformity surgery and spinal trauma and has published multiple papers on deformity correction, outcomes research and complications as well as the biomechanics of spinal correction. His basic science research interests currently focus on the biomechanics of spinal fusion and fixation.

Brett A. Freedman, M.D., Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Chair, Division of Spine Surgery at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Dr. Jefferson Wilson is a surgeon-scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital and Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto. He currently holds the Labatt Endowed Chair in Neurosurgery at Unity Health. Dr Wilson’s clinical practice is focused on the surgical management of complex disorders of the spine and spinal cord. He also leads a clinical research program investigating both traumatic and non-traumatic spinal cord injury, with a specific interest in the development of predictive models and algorithms to help guide treatment and forecast outcomes. His research has been supported through several grants from organizations including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, AOSpine, Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation and the Cervical Spine Research Society. Dr. Wilson currently chairs a national evidence based spine surgery course for residents and fellows and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Neurosurgery Spine.

I am a Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. I am the Division Chief of the Orthopaedic Spine Division and the Program Director of The Ohio State University Spine Fellowship Program. I completed my orthopaedic spine surgery fellowship at Stanford University/San Francisco and my orthopaedic residency at The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.