Understanding the connection between gut health and Lumbar Degenerative Spondylolisthesis

Dr Dino Samartzis is a Professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. He also serves as the Director of the International Spine Research and Innovation Initiative (ISRII) at Rush. 

Samartzis earned his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University. He pursued graduate studies in biological sciences, evidence-based health care, clinical epidemiology, medical sciences, and international studies at institutions including Harvard University, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, Erasmus University, Charles University, and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Biochemistry at The University of Hong Kong. He is the recently elected research chair for AO Spine’s International Research Commission. 

The author would also like to acknowledge the contributions of Khaled Aboushaala, Ana V. Chee, Darbaz Adnan, Sheila J. Toro, Harmanjeet Singh, Andrew Savoia, Ekamjeet S. Dhillon, Catherine Yuh, Jake Dourdourekas, Ishani K. Patel, Rajko Vucicevic, Alejandro A. Espinoza-Orias, John T. Martin, Chundo Oh, Ali Keshavarzian, Hanne B. Albert, Jaro Karppinen, Mehmet Kocak, Arnold Y. L. Wong, Edward J. Goldberg, Frank M. Phillips, Matthew W. Colman, Frances M. K. Williams, Jeffrey A. Borgia, Ankur Naqib, Stefan J. Green, Christopher B. Forsyth, and Howard S. An.