Dr. Alexander Vaccaro, MD

• Orthopedic Surgery

• Neurosurgery

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• Uc San Diego Medical Center

  Fellowship Hospital

• Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals

  Residency Hospital

• Cedars-sinai Medical Center

  Internship Hospital

• Georgetown University School Of Medicine

  Medical School, 1987

• Rothman Institute, President

• Thomas Jefferson University, Chair, Department of Orthopedics

• Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center of the Delaware Valley, Co-Director

• Spine Fellowship Program at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Co-Director

• Association for Collaborative Spine Research, Past President

• American Spinal Injury Association, Past President

• Orthopaedics and Neurosurgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Professor

• English

• Italian

• Spanish

• A Randomized Controlled Trial of Early versus Late Surgical Decompression for Thoracic and Thoracolumbar Spinal Cord Injury in 73 Patients, 2020-09-18

• An organ culture system to model early degenerative changes of the intervertebral disc II: profiling global gene expression changes, 2013-09-16

• The Role of Machine Learning in Spine Surgery: The Future Is Now, 2020-08-21

• Early General Hypothermia Improves Motor Function after Spinal Cord Injury in Rats; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, 2020-10-06

• Evaluation of two novel thoracolumbar trauma classification systems, 2007-01-01

• The Impact of Older Age on Functional Recovery and Quality of Life Outcomes after Surgical Decompression for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: Results from an Ambispective, Propensity-Matched Analysis from the CSM-NA and CSM-I International, Multi-Center Studies, 2019-10-17

• Improving motor neuron-like cell differentiation of hEnSCs by the combination of epothilone B loaded PCL microspheres in optimized 3D collagen hydrogel, 2021-11-05

• Burden of traumatic spine fractures in Tehran, Iran, 2011-10-11

• Outcomes and National Trends for the Surgical Treatment of Lumbar Spine Trauma, 2016-06-15

• Spinal tuberculosis: diagnosis and management, 2012-11-01

• Recurrent burner syndrome due to presumed cervical spine osteoblastoma in a collision sport athlete - a case report, 2007-06-06

• Regional variability in use of a novel assessment of thoracolumbar spine fractures: United States versus international surgeons, 2007-09-07

• Rho Inhibitor VX-210 in Acute Traumatic Subaxial Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: Design of the SPinal Cord Injury Rho INhibition InvestiGation (SPRING) Clinical Trial, 2018-05-01

• Three Dimensionally Printed Versus Conventional Casts in Pediatric Wrist Fractures, 2021-10-28

• The efficacy of surgical decompression before 24 hours versus 24 to 72 hours in patients with spinal cord injury from T1 to L1 - with specific consideration on ethics: a randomized controlled trial, 2009-08-24

• Evaluating Patient Interest in Orthopedic Telehealth Services Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021-07-20

• Population Average T2 MRI Maps Reveal Quantitative Regional Transformations in the Degenerating Rabbit Intervertebral Disc that Vary by Lumbar Level, 2014-10-01

• Establishing the Socio-Economic Impact of Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy Is Fundamental to Improving Outcomes [AO Spine RECODE-DCM Research Priority Number 8], 2022-02-17

• The role of electrical stimulation for rehabilitation and regeneration after spinal cord injury, 2022-01-06