Oral Presentation

Are Body Mass Index Cutoffs Creating Racial and Gender Disparities in Patients Undergoing Spine Surgery for Lumbar Degenerative Disease?

Presenting Author(s)

• KA

  Kimberly Ashayeri, MD

  Neurosurgery Spine Fellow
  Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  New York, NY, US

Co-Author(s)

• AB

  Ali Bydon, MD

  Professor
  Johns Hopkins University
  Baltimore, Maryland
• 

  Daniel Davidar, MMBS

  Research Fellow
  Johns Hopkins University
  Baltimore, MD, US
• 

  Kelly Jiang, n/a

  Medical Student
  Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  Baltimore, MD, US
• 

  Daniel Lubelski, MD

  Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
  Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  Baltimore, MD, US
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  Nicholas Theodore, MD, MS (he/him/his)

  Director, Neurosurgical Spine Center; Professor of Neurosurgery
  Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  Baltimore, MD, US
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  Carly Weber-Levine, MS (she/her/hers)

  Medical Student
  Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  East Setauket, NY, US
• TW

  Timothy Witham, MD

  Professor
  Johns Hopkins University
  Towson, Maryland