Dr. O’Toole has a professional interest in chordoma, degenerative disc disease, herniated disc, kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty, motion preservation, sciatica, spinal reconstruction and spinal stenosis. His research interests include clinical outcomes for spinal surgery; development of evidence-based guidelines for spinal surgery, image-guided spinal surgery and translational application of spinal biologics.
Dr. O’Toole’s work has been widely published in a number of prestigious journals, including Neurosurgery, Neurosurgical Focus and The Spine Journal.
Dr. O’Toole earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He completed his neurological surgery residency at the Neurological Institute of New York, Columbia University. He has also completed a spine surgery fellowship at University of Chicago Medical Center.
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