Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine
Orthopaedic Surgery
Riew works in the field of Orthopaedic Surgery. He studied medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He over the years received 52 awards: "Distinguished Educator - Clinical Fellow Mentoring Award", "America's Top Doctors", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Resident/Fellow Research Award - 2nd place", "One of Four Best Papers: Natural History of Asymptomatic Cervical Stenosis", "Top 10% Rank: Patient Survey for Clinicians", "International Faculty Oscar Award", "Resident/Fellow Research Award - 1st place", "Oscar Award for Best Presentation", "Research Grant Award", "Outstanding Basic Science Research Award, 1st Place", "Russell A. Hibbs Award in Basic Science", "Best Basic Science Paper Award", "Excellence in Teaching Award", "Americas Top Orthopedists", "Outstanding Clinical Poster Award, 1st Place", "Mentor Award", "The Mildred B. Simon Distinguished Endowed Chair", "Outstanding Clinical Research Award, 1st Place", "Whos Who in Science and Engineering", "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare", "Clinical Poster Award", "Best Paper Award", "Whos Who in the World", "Outstanding Clinical Research Award, 2nd Place", "Whos Who in America", "3rd place Outstanding Clinical Research Award", "Outstanding Paper Award", "Americas Top Doctors", "Best Doctors in America", "St. Louis Magazine: Top Doctors", "Caring Spirit Award", "Outstanding Basic Science Research Award", "Mayfield Award for Basic Science Paper", "Russell S. Hibbs Basic Science Award", "Second Runner-up Russell Hibbs Outstanding Paper Award for Basic Science Research", "Palma Chironis Award for Excellence in Teaching", "Nominated for Russell Hibbs Outstanding Paper Award for Clinical Research", "First Runner-up, Russell Hibbs Outstanding Paper Award for Basic Science Research", "Lee Ford Award for Academic Achievement", "First Prize", "Finalist for Neer Award for best paper", "Chosen Chief Medical Resident", "National Research Service Award Training Grant", "The C. Richard Bowman Award", "Chosen Assistant Chief Medical Resident", "Alpha Omega Alpha", "The Ames Award", "The Dunster Shield", "Manhood Award", "Chrysler Youth Award" and "President, Cervical Spine Research Society 2012-13; Chairman, AOSpine International Board Research Commission 2012-15; America's Top Doctors & Best Doctors in America 2003 to present". Riew is a published MD as well. He has 99 publications published. The latest was: Failure of Intraoperative Monitoring to Detect Postoperative Neurologic Deficits: A 25-year Experience in 12,375 Spinal Surgeries. He accepts Medicare payments and is registered with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Patient-Reported Outcome Instruments in Spine Surgery.
- Failure of Intraoperative Monitoring to Detect Postoperative Neurologic Deficits: A 25-year Experience in 12,375 Spinal Surgeries.
- Cervical Scoliosis: Clinical and Radiographic Outcomes.
- Reliability assessment of a novel cervical spine deformity classification system.
- An Update on Civilian Spinal Gunshot Wounds: Treatment, Neurological Recovery, and Complications.
- Central cord syndrome: is operative treatment the standard of care?
- Reoperation Rates after Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion versus Posterior Cervical Foraminotomy: a propensity matched analysis.
- Neck Pain following Laminoplasty.
- Delayed surgical intervention in central cord syndrome with cervical stenosis.
- Adjacent Segment Pathology Requiring Reoperation Following Anterior Cervical Arthrodesis: The Influence of Smoking, Gender, and Number of Operated Levels.
- Cervical spine disease in rheumatoid arthritis: incidence, manifestations, and therapy.
- Correlation of cord signal change with physical examination findings in patients with cervical myelopathy.
- Cervical spinal cord dimensions and clinical outcomes in adults with klippel-feil syndrome: a comparison with matched controls.
- Risk-factor analysis of adjacent-segment pathology requiring surgery following anterior, posterior, fusion, and nonfusion cervical spine operations: survivorship analy...
- Comparison of Smith Petersen (SPO) vs. Pedicle Subtraction (PSO) vs. Anterior-Posterior Osteotomy (ATO) Types for the correction of Cervical Spine Deformities.
- Spine surgery training: is it time to consider categorical spine surgery residency?
- Diagnostic value of oblique magnetic resonance images for evaluating cervical foraminal stenosis.
- Cervical degenerative disease: systematic review of economic analyses.
- Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy Surgical (CSM-S) Trial: Randomized Controlled Trial Design and Rationale.
- Defining Hyoplasia of the Atlas: A Cadaveric Study.
- Anterior Cervical Osteotomy for Fixed Cervical Deformities.
- Risk Factors for Dural Tears in the Cervical Spine.
- Dynamic radiographic criteria for detecting pseudarthrosis following anterior cervical arthrodesis.
- Neurologic recovery after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion.
- Fluoroscopically guided extraforaminal cervical nerve root blocks: analysis of epidural flow of the injectate with respect to needle tip position.
- Differentiating c8-t1 radiculopathy from ulnar neuropathy: a survey of 24 spine surgeons.
- Sagittal range of motion after extensive cervical fusion.
- Intrawound vancomycin powder eradicates surgical wound contamination: an in vivo rabbit study.
- Single-level degenerative cervical disc disease and driving disability: results from a prospective, randomized trial.
- Hypovitaminosis D and Cervical Disk Herniation among Adults Undergoing Spine Surgery.
- Risk Factors for Post-Operative Retropharyngeal Hematoma After Anterior Cervical Spine Surgery.
- Predictive factors affecting outcome after cervical laminoplasty.
- Outcomes after laminoplasty compared with laminectomy and fusion in patients with cervical myelopathy: a systematic review.
- Frequency, timing, and predictors of neurological dysfunction in the nonmyelopathic patient with cervical spinal cord compression, canal stenosis, and/or ossification ...
- Sagittal alignment as a predictor of clinical adjacent segment pathology requiring surgery after anterior cervical arthrodesis.
- Comparative Effectiveness of Different Types of Cervical Laminoplasty.
- Anterior Cervical Fusion Assessment Using Reconstructed CT-scans: Surgical Confirmation of 254 Segments.
- Differential Diagnosis for Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy: Literature review.
- Association of Myelopathy Scores with Cervical Sagittal Balance and Normalized Spinal Cord Volume: Analysis of 56 Preoperative Cases from the AOSpine North America Mye...
- Neck Pain Following Cervical Laminoplasty: Does Preservation of the C2 Muscle Attachments and/or C7 Matter?
- Adjacent-Segment Range of Motion Following Anterior Cervical Fusion: Commentary on an article by William J. Anderst, MS, et al.: "Six-Degrees-of-Freedom Cervical Spine...
- Methods to decrease postoperative infections following posterior cervical spine surgery.
- Why Are Spine Surgery Patients Lost to Follow-up?
- Preoperative vitamin d status of adults undergoing surgical spinal fusion.
- Significant change or loss of intraoperative monitoring data: a 25-year experience in 12,375 spinal surgeries.
- Methodology for the systematic reviews on an adjacent segment pathology.
- Surgical Approach to the Cervicothoracic Junction: Can a Standard Smith-Robinson Approach be Utilized?
- Optimal Trajectory for the Occipital Condylar Screw.
- Risk of internal carotid artery injury during C1 screw placement: analysis of 160 computed tomography angiograms.
- Biomechanical analysis of occipitocervical stability afforded by three fixation techniques.
- Laminar Closure after Classic Hirabayashi Open-door Laminoplasty.
- Optimal trajectory for the atlantooccipital transarticular screw.
- The long-term results of anterior surgical reconstruction in patients with postlaminectomy cervical kyphosis.
- Pseudarthrosis in multilevel anterior cervical fusion with rhBMP-2 and allograft: analysis of one hundred twenty-seven cases with minimum two-year follow-up.
- Comparison of anterior cervical fusion after two-level discectomy or single-level corpectomy: sagittal alignment, cervical lordosis, graft collapse, and adjacent-level...
- C2 Anatomy and Dimensions Relative to Translaminar Screw Placement in an Asian Population.
- Effect of teriparatide [rhPTH(1,34)] and calcitonin on intertransverse process fusion in a rabbit model.
- Effect of hyperglycemia on apoptosis of notochordal cells and intervertebral disc degeneration in diabetic rats.
- Revision surgery following cervical laminoplasty: etiology and treatment strategies.
- A combined posterior, lateral, and anterior approach to ventrolaterally situated chordoma of the upper cervical spine.
- Cervical disc arthroplasty compared with arthrodesis for the treatment of myelopathy. Surgical technique.
- The prevalence cervical facet arthrosis: an osseous study in a cadveric population.
- The effect of an anterior cervical operation for cervical radiculopathy or myelopathy on associated headaches.
- Lateral fluoroscopic guide to prevent occipitocervical and atlantoaxial joint violation during C1 lateral mass screw placement.
- The time course of range of motion loss after cervical laminoplasty: a prospective study with minimum two-year follow-up.
- Predictors of outcome after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: a multivariate analysis.
- Comparison of magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography in predicting facet arthrosis in the cervical spine.
- Adjacent level ossification development after anterior cervical fusion without plate fixation.
- Undetected vertebral artery groove and foramen violations during C1 lateral mass and C2 pedicle screw placement.
- Adverse events associated with anterior cervical spine surgery.
- Cervical disc arthroplasty compared with arthrodesis for the treatment of myelopathy.
- Tandem stenosis: a cadaveric study in osseous morphology.
- Perils of intravascular methylprednisolone injection into the vertebral artery. An animal study.
- Preoperative laryngeal nerve screening for revision anterior cervical spine procedures.
- Effect of fibrin sealant on drain output and duration of hospitalization after multilevel anterior cervical fusion: a retrospective matched pair analysis.
- Comparison of adverse events between the Bryan artificial cervical disc and anterior cervical arthrodesis.
- Anterior cervical fusion assessment: surgical exploration versus radiographic evaluation.
- Revision strategies in lumbar total disc arthroplasty.
- Value of diagnostic lumbar selective nerve root block: a prospective controlled study.
- Randomized, prospective, and controlled clinical trial of pulsed electromagnetic field stimulation for cervical fusion.
- Salvage of C2 pedicle and pars screws using the intralaminar technique: a biomechanical analysis.
- The feasibility of microscope-assisted "free-hand" C1 lateral mass screw insertion without fluoroscopy.
- The risk of reintubation following anterior cervical spine surgery.
- Risk factors for surgical site infection following orthopaedic spinal operations.
- Cervical laminaplasty.
- Accuracy of intraoperative plain radiographs to detect violations of intralaminar screws placed into the C2 vertebrae: a reliability study.
- Dynamic anterior cervical plates.
- Timing of development of adjacent-level ossification after anterior cervical arthrodesis with plates.
- Overexpressions of nerve growth factor and its tropomyosin-related kinase A receptor on chordoma cells.
- Magnetic resonance imaging clarity of the Bryan, Prodisc-C, Prestige LP, and PCM cervical arthroplasty devices.
- Prevalence of cervical spine stenosis. Anatomic study in cadavers.
- Thorough decompression of the posterior cervical foramen.
- Update on cervical artificial disk replacement.
- Posterior cervical spine surgery for radiculopathy.
- The feasibility of inserting atlas lateral mass screws via the posterior arch.
- Cervical myelopathy from atlantal hypoplasia and torticollis.
- Nerve root blocks in the treatment of lumbar radicular pain. A minimum five-year follow-up.
- Management of recalcitrant osteoarthritis of the atlanto-axial joint.
Schools
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
New YorkPresbyterian HospitalWeill Cornell Medical Center
Beth Israel Medical Center
George Washington University Medical Center
University Hospitals Of Cleveland
Procedures Preformed
- Carpal Tunnel Release
- Disc Replacement
- Dressing and-or Debridement of Wound, Infection, or Burn (incl. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy)
- Dural Repair or Other Spinal Spinal Cord Repair
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Doctors Specialties
- Internal Medicine
- Orthopedic Surgery
- Orthopaedic Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Distinguished Educator - Clinical Fellow Mentoring Award
- America's Top Doctors
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Resident/Fellow Research Award - 2nd place
- One of Four Best Papers: Natural History of Asymptomatic Cervical Stenosis
- Top 10% Rank: Patient Survey for Clinicians
- International Faculty Oscar Award
- Resident/Fellow Research Award - 1st place
- Oscar Award for Best Presentation
- Research Grant Award
- Outstanding Basic Science Research Award, 1st Place
- Russell A. Hibbs Award in Basic Science
- Best Basic Science Paper Award
- Excellence in Teaching Award
- America’s Top Orthopedists
- Outstanding Clinical Poster Award, 1st Place
- Mentor Award
- The Mildred B. Simon Distinguished Endowed Chair
- Outstanding Clinical Research Award, 1st Place
- Who’s Who in Science and Engineering
- Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare
- Clinical Poster Award
- Best Paper Award
- Who’s Who in the World
- Outstanding Clinical Research Award, 2nd Place
- Who’s Who in America
- 3rd place Outstanding Clinical Research Award
- Outstanding Paper Award
- America’s Top Doctors
- Best Doctors in America
- St. Louis Magazine: Top Doctors
- Caring Spirit Award
- Outstanding Basic Science Research Award
- Mayfield Award for Basic Science Paper
- Russell S. Hibbs Basic Science Award
- Second Runner-up Russell Hibbs Outstanding Paper Award for Basic Science Research
- Palma Chironis Award for Excellence in Teaching
- Nominated for Russell Hibbs Outstanding Paper Award for Clinical Research
- First Runner-up, Russell Hibbs Outstanding Paper Award for Basic Science Research
- Lee Ford Award for Academic Achievement
- First Prize
- Finalist for Neer Award for best paper
- Chosen Chief Medical Resident
- National Research Service Award Training Grant
- The C. Richard Bowman Award
- Chosen Assistant Chief Medical Resident
- Alpha Omega Alpha
- The Ames Award
- The Dunster Shield
- Manhood Award
- Chrysler Youth Award
- President, Cervical Spine Research Society 2012-13; Chairman, AOSpine International Board Research Commission 2012-15; America's Top Doctors & Best Doctors in America 2003 to present
Education
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Case Western Reserve University - University Hospitals
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George Washington University
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Mount Sinai Beth Israel
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New York Presbyterian Hospital - Cornell Campus
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Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
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Harvard College
Hospital
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NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia
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