Joseph and Marie Field Professor of Spinal Surgery, Jefferson Medical College Vice Chairman, Academic Affairs and Faculty Development, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

Orthopaedic Surgery

Alan Hilibrand is an expert in the field of Orthopaedic Surgery. He went to medical school at Yale University School of Medicine. Yale University School of Medicine is a top medical college. Yale University School of Medicine is ranked 7 in research and 57 in primary care medicine He received awards:"America's Top Doctors", "Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Philadelphia Magazine" and "Super Doctor". Alan S. Hilibrand, MD is a published doctor and has 101 publications published. The lastest was: 'Effectiveness of surgery for lumbar stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis in the octogenarian population: analysis of the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (...' Dr. Alan S. Hilibrand accepts Medicare payments and is listed with Medicare.gov.

Publications

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• Effectiveness of surgery for lumbar stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis in the octogenarian population: analysis of the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (...
• Differential gene expression in anterior and posterior annulus fibrosus.
• Cost-effectiveness of Surgical Treatment for Degenerative Spondylolisthesis and Spinal Stenosis.
• Commentary on: "Sagittal alignment as a predictor of clinical adjacent segment pathology requiring surgery after anterior Cervical arthrodesis".
• What is the Rate of Lumbar Adjacent Segment Disease after Percutaneous versus Open Fusion?
• Minimally Invasive versus Open Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion: A Systematic Review.
• Radiographic Variables that may Predict Clinical Outcomes in Cervical Disc Replacement Surgery.
• Cervical laminectomy width and spinal cord drift are risk factors for postoperative c5 palsy.
• Disc Space Preparation in Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion: A Comparison of Minimally Invasive and Open Approaches.
• Complications of Flat Bedrest Following Incidental Dural Repair.
• The Rate of Adjacent Segment Disease in Cervical Disc Arthoplasty Versus Single Level Fusion: A Meta-Analysis of of Prospective Studies.
• Neurologic Injury because of trauma after Type II odontoid nonunion.
• Three-dimensional kinematic stress magnetic resonance image analysis shows promise for detecting altered anatomical relationships of tissues in the Cervical spine asso...
• Does Opioid Pain Medication Use Affect the Outcome of Patients with Lumbar Disk Herniation?
• Risk for adjacent segment and same segment reoperation after surgery for lumbar stenosis: a subgroup analysis of the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT).
• Change in Angular Alignment is Associated With Early Dysphagia After Anterior Cervical Diskectomy and Fusion.
• Preoperative Delay Greater Than One Hour Increases the Risk of Surgical Site Infection.
• Why Are Spine Surgery Patients Lost to Follow-up?
• Epidural steroid injections are associated with less improvement in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis: a subgroup analysis of the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Tr...
• The influence of obesity on the outcome of treatment of lumbar disc herniation: analysis of the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT).
• What is the Incidence of Dysphagia after Posterior Cervical Surgery?
• Comparison of open and minimally invasive techniques for posterior Lumbar instrumentation and fusion after open anterior Lumbar interbody fusion.
• Does obesity affect outcomes of treatment for lumbar stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis? Analysis of the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT).
• Adjacent segment pathology following Cervical motion-sparing procedures or devices compared with fusion surgery: a systematic review.
• Predicting the risk of adjacent segment pathology in the Cervical spine: a systematic review.
• Predictors of treatment choice in lumbar spinal stenosis: a Spine patient outcomes research trial study.
• Cost-utility analysis in Spine care: a systematic review.
• Management of adjacent segment disease after Cervical spinal fusion.
• Duration of Symptoms Resulting from Lumbar Disc Herniation: Effect on Treatment Outcomes: Analysis of the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT).
• Current management review of thoracoLumbar cord syndromes.
• Transcranial Electric Motor Evoked Potential Monitoring During Spine Surgery: Is It Safe?
• Gastroesophageal reflux following anterior Cervical surgery: A controlled, prospective analysis.
• What is the incidence and severity of dysphagia after anterior Cervical surgery?
• The impact of diabetes on the outcomes of surgical and nonsurgical treatment of patients in the Spine patient outcomes research trial.
• Trends in epidemiology and management of type II odontoid fractures: 20-year experience at a model system Spine injury tertiary referral center.
• Injury of the posterior ligamentous complex of the thoracolumbar Spine: a prospective evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging.
• Complications associated with single-level transforaminal Lumbar interbody fusion.
• Radiographic and clinical outcomes after instrumented reduction and transforaminal Lumbar interbody fusion of mid and high-grade isthmic spondylolisthesis.
• Adjacent segment disease after Cervical spine fusion.
• Early complications of surgical versus conservative treatment of isolated type II odontoid Fractures in octogenarians: a retrospective cohort study.
• Surgical versus nonoperative treatment for lumbar disc herniation: four-year results for the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT).
• Traumatic spondyloptosis of the thoracolumbar Spine.
• Financial incentives for Lumbar surgery: a critical analysis of physician reimbursement for decompression and fusion procedures.
• Early predictive value of supine and upright X-ray films of odontoid Fractures treated with halo-vest immobilization.
• Trends in surgical management for type II odontoid Fracture: 20 years of experience at a regional spinal cord injury center.
• Lumbar adjacent segment degeneration and disease after arthrodesis and total Disc arthroplasty.
• Revision strategies in lumbar total Disc arthroplasty.
• The safety and efficacy of OP-1 (rhBMP-7) as a replacement for iliac crest autograft for posterolateral Lumbar arthrodesis: minimum 4-year follow-up of a pilot study.
• The 2007 ABC Traveling Fellowship: building international orthopaedic bridges.
• AOA Symposium. Orthopaedists partnering with other physicians to provide musculoskeletal care.
• Mortality rates in geriatric patients with Spinal cord injuries.
• Neurologic deficit following percutaneous vertebral stabilization.
• Questionnaire study of neuromonitoring availability and usage for Spine surgery.
• Short-term comparison of Cervical fusion with static and dynamic plating using computerized motion analysis.
• Surgical versus nonsurgical treatment for lumbar Degenerative spondylolisthesis.
• The influence of Fracture mechanism and morphology on the reliability and validity of two novel thoracolumbar injury classification systems.
• The adoption of a new classification system: time-dependent variation in interobserver reliability of the thoracoLumbar injury severity score classification system.
• Surgical vs nonoperative treatment for lumbar disk herniation: the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT): a randomized trial.
• Use of computed tomography to predict failure of nonoperative treatment of unilateral facet fractures of the Cervical spine.
• Osteogenic protein-1 induced gene expression: evaluation in a posterolateral Spinal pseudarthrosis model.
• Long-term magnetic resonance imaging evaluation of bioresorbable anterior Cervical plate resorption following fusion for degenerative and traumatic disk disruption.
• "Normal" prevertebral soft tissue swelling following elective anterior Cervical decompression and fusion.
• Characterization of neurophysiologic alerts during anterior Cervical spine surgery.
• Quantitative prediction of spinal cord drift after Cervical laminectomy and arthrodesis.
• Agreement between surgeons and an independent panel with respect to surgical site fusion after single-level anterior Cervical spine surgery: a prospective, multicenter...
• The effect of anterior Cervical fusion on neck motion.
• Reliability of a novel classification system for thoracoLumbar injuries: the ThoracoLumbar Injury Severity Score.
• Spinal disassociation masquerading as iatrogenic listhesis above a previous fusion.
• The impact of four common lumbar Spine diagnoses upon overall health status.
• Epidural hematoma causing dense paralysis after anterior Cervical corpectomy. A report of two cases.
• Severe myelopathy resulting from melorheostosis of the cervicothoracic Spine. A case report.
• Rheumatoid arthritis in the Cervical spine.
• Histological analysis of a displaced femoral ring allograft spacer filled with a recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2-soaked collagen sponge. A case report.
• Acute quadriplegia following closed traction reduction of a Cervical facet dislocation in the setting of ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament: case report.
• Industry support and correlation to study outcome for papers published in Spine.
• Proposal of a modified, treatment-oriented classification of odontoid Fractures.
• Differences in the work-up and treatment of conditions associated with low Back pain by patient gender and ethnic Background.
• A critical analysis of the literature regarding surgical approach and outcome for adult low-grade isthmic Spondylolisthesis.
• Evaluation of a novel pedicle probe for the placement of thoracic and lumbosacral pedicle screws.
• Adjacent segment degeneration and adjacent segment Disease: the consequences of spinal fusion?
• Predictors of paralysis in the rheumatoid Cervical spine in patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty.
• Development of a New Zealand white rabbit model of Spinal pseudarthrosis repair and evaluation of the potential role of OP-1 to overcome pseudarthrosis.
• Comparison of transcranial electric motor and somatosensory evoked potential monitoring during Cervical spine surgery.
• Passing the Boards: can USMLE and Orthopaedic in-Training Examination scores predict passage of the ABOS Part-I examination?
• Morphologic evaluation of Cervical spine anatomy with computed tomography: anterior Cervical plate fixation considerations.
• Similarities and differences in the treatment of Spine trauma between surgical specialties and location of practice.
• Early findings in a pilot study of anterior Cervical fusion in which bioabsorbable interbody spacers were used in the treatment of Cervical degenerative disease.
• Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion: the effect of various instrumentation techniques on the flexibility of the lumbar Spine.
• The impact of adjacent level Disc degeneration on health status outcomes following lumbar fusion.
• Radiographic analysis of transforaminal Lumbar interbody fusion for the treatment of adult isthmic spondylolisthesis.
• Impact of neck and arm Pain on overall health status.
• Risk factors for surgical site infection in the patient with spinal Injury.
• Donor site morbidity after anterior iliac crest bone harvest for single-level anterior Cervical discectomy and fusion.
• Cervical myelopathy. current diagnostic and treatment strategies.
• Image-guided Spine surgery: a cadaver study comparing conventional open laminoforaminotomy and two image-guided techniques for pedicle screw placement in posterolatera...
• Intraoperative neurophysiologic detection of iatrogenic C5 nerve root injury during laminectomy for Cervical compression myelopathy.
• Pedicle screws with high electrical resistance: a potential source of error with stimulus-evoked EMG.
• Spine infections: variations in incidence during the academic year.
• Increased rate of arthrodesis with strut grafting after multilevel anterior Cervical decompression.
• Autograft versus allograft in degenerative Cervical disease.

Procedures Preformed

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• Dressing and-or Debridement of Wound, Infection, or Burn (incl. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy)
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Conditions Treated

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Doctors Specialties

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• Minimally Invasive Neurological Spine Surgery
• Minimally Invasive Orthopedic Spine Surgery
• Neurological Spine Reconstructive Surgery
• Neurological Spine Surgery
• Neurosurgery
• Orthopedic Spine Reconstructive Surgery
• Orthopedic Spine Surgery
• Orthopedic Surgery
• Orthopaedic Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• America's Top Doctors
• Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
• Philadelphia Magazine
• Super Doctor

Education

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• Case Western Reserve University - University Hospitals
• University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers
• Yale University School of Medicine

Hospital

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• Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Drug Facts

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NPI NUMBER		1609820315
NPPES Provider LastName		HILIBRAND
NPPES Provider FirstName		ALAN
NPPES Provider ZIPCode		191074216
NPPES Provider State		PA
Specialty Description		Orthopedic Surgery
Total Claim Count		202.0
Distinct Opioid Count		2.0
Opioid Claim Count		124.0
Percent Opioid Claims		61.39

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1609820315
Last Name Of The Provider	HILIBRAND
First Name Of The Provider	ALAN
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