Classes and Seminars
We hope you'll join us for one or more of our in-depth programs and learn from the experts.
Spine Seminars
Attend our seminars! Talk with the professionals and get your questions answered! Learn from these experts about the various types of back and neck problems and their latest treatments. We will even demonstrate the right exercises to help you be active.
Feeling Good with Arthritis®
These public events, presented by Arthritis Education by Professionals, Inc., give people with arthritis the opportunity to learn firsthand about arthritis management in live seminar-style presentations hosted by Jan Revella, R.N. and featuring our physician guest speakers.
Spine Surgery Fellowships
Research and Education Foundation Spine Spine Surgery Fellowships
Sonoran Spine Center participates in the spine surgery fellowship match, offering the opportunity for tertiary spinal deformity and spinal reconstructive surgery training for physicians who have completed a full residency in either orthopedic surgery or neuro surgery. The fellows will function as an integral part of the spine surgery team with responsibilities for work up, decision making, participation in surgery, follow up care after surgery, and spinal research.
The clinical material the fellow would be exposed to heavily weighted toward adult spinal deformity with extensive experience in reconstructive surgery for deformity, degenerative conditions, congenital problems, infection, tumor and trauma effecting the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine.
With the primary focus of this fellowship being adult spinal deformity, extensive time will be spent learning the latest techniques in the care and treatment of patient's with spinal deformity under the close supervision and mentorship of Dennis Crandall, MD, Michael Chang, MD and other faculty members at Sonoran Spine Center.
Clinical Fellowships
- 1 – 2 per year, August 1 - July 31
- 12 month fellowship
- Orthopedic and Neurosurgeons can apply (completed residency, able to obtain Arizona license)
- Unique expertise and emphasis on adult spinal deformity (extensive exposure to operative care for degenerative disease, pediatric deformity, minimally invasive techniques, spinal osteotomies, cervical reconstruction, some exposure to total disc replacement in cervical and lumbar, less exposure to tumor and level-one trauma)
- Occiput to sacral experience; anterior/posterior/lateral approaches
- Heavy operative experience with 4 fellowship-trained spinal surgeons (SSC does 800 - 1000 surgical cases per year)
- Pre and post-op patient evaluation, decision making, creative thinking emphasized
- Opportunity to learn to do selective nerve root blocks and other pain injection techniques if desired (SSC Physiatrist, K. Mosallaie)
- Clinical research
- Participate in San Francisco Fellowship Match (SF Match)
Spine Research Fellowships
- 3 month fellowship (option to extend to additional 3 months if desired)
- Orthopedic and Neurosurgeons can apply (completed residency)
- Must be fluent in writing and speaking English
- Observe in OR (unscrubbed)
- Participate in clinical research as principal investigator or as a contributing co-author
Interested applicants should contact Susan Dylo through the Sonoran Spine Research and Education Foundation to find out more, and to receive information regarding application.