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

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.