The International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery named Domagoj Coric, MD, to its board of directors.
Here are seven key notes:
1. Dr. Coric currently practices at Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Associates and serves as the chief of neurosurgery at Carolinas Medical Center and spine director at the Carolinas Healthcare System Neuroscience Institute, all based in Charlotte.
2. Dr. Coric has been a member of ISASS since 2007 and was appointed as the ISASS16 Overall Program Chair.
3. He is also a section editor for the International Journal of Spine Surgery.
4. He is on the board of International Advocates for Spine Patients. He is a past president of the Southern Neurosurgical Society and North Carolina Spine Society. He also serves on the executive committee of the Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves of AANS and CNS.
5. Dr. Coric has served as the principal investigator on multiple FDA investigational device exemption trials, and he has authored or co-authored more than 25 peer-reviewed research papers and seven book chapters.
6. Most recently Dr. Coric co-authored a study published in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine that examined the Mobi-C artificial disc from LDR for two-level procedures. At five years, the success rate for two-level disc replacement was 61 percent, higher than 31 percent for the ACDF group. The rate of secondary surgeries was 7 percent for disc replacement patients and 21 percent for fusion patients.
7. Dr. Coric completed his residency in neurological surgery at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C.