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Our spinal services include patient education, individualized care, and advanced treatment and reconstruction choices to ensure the highest level of independence and physical ability.

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CLINICAL MINUTES: MINIMALLY INVASIVE SPINE SURGERY

Dr. Maxwell Merkow, Neurosurgeon and Spine Specialist, discusses the latest in minimally invasive spine procedures.

Treatment Options

Complex Spine Reconstruction: Advanced techniques to reconstruct and stabilize the spine at all levels.

Minimally invasive spinal surgery: Small surgical incisions to treat a variety of spinal disorders and conditions, providing a quicker recovery than traditional open surgical techniques.

Discectomy/microdiscectomy: Surgical removal or partial removal of a vertebral disc to relieve pressure from the nerves.

Disc replacement: Surgical replacement of a diseased or herniated lumbar disc with an artificial disc.

Laminectomy: Surgical removal of part of the lamina to relieve pressure on the spinal cord and nerve roots.

Spinal Fusion: A procedure that uses a bone graft and surgical hardware to create a solid union between two or more vertebrae to provide additional spinal support.

Vertebroplasty: Injecting bone cement into the vertebrae to stabilize fractures, resulting in significant pain relief and restoration of mobility.

Wed, March 18, 7:30-8:30AM

Advances in the Diagnosis and Management of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Speaker: Theodore Abraham, MD – Co-director, UCSF HCM Center of Excellence; Director, UCSF Adult Cardiac Echocardiography Laboratory, UCSF Health. Topics include incidence, anatomy and pathophysiology, clinical presentation, imaging (echocardiography, other), medical management, interventional and surgical therapies. This lecture can be seen live at Concord Medical Center (Concord 1&2), by video conference to Walnut Creek Medical Center, and by webcast.

Wed, April 15, 7:30-8:30AM

Can We Prevent Atrial Fibrillation? Risk Factors and Prevention

Speaker: Anurag Gupta, MD - Cardiac Electrophysiology, John Muir Health. This lecture can be seen live at Concord Medical Center (Concord 1&2), by video conference to Walnut Creek Medical Center, and by webcast.

Concord Medical Center

Foregut Mentor Site

Designated as one of five foregut mentor sites in the country and the first in California as a Foregut Mentor Site for da Vinci® Xi Surgical System robotic procedures. John Muir Health will host surgeons from across the United States to observe and study robotic-assisted surgeries.

John Muir Health Cancer Institute

Nation's First Accredited Rectal Cancer Center of Excellence

Accredited by National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer (NAPRC). Very first accredited rectal cancer program by the American College of Surgeons (ACoS).

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