Co-Founder Center for Disc Replacement
Texas Back Institute
Dallas, TX, US
Jack Zigler, MD, USA
Dr. Jack Zigler specializes in spine surgery at the Texas Back Institute in Plano, TX. He is a former Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at USC, Chief of the Spinal Injury Service at Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center, and has been President of both the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) and the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery (ISASS). As a Fellowship Director, Dr. Zigler has trained more than 130 Spine Surgeons. He has served on dozens of committees for Orthopaedic and Spine societies.
Dr. Zigler received his undergraduate degree in 1973, a B.S. with distinction at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He received his M.D. cum laude at the SUNY Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, New York, where he was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.
Following completion of a Residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, Dr. Zigler completed the prestigious Arnold Fellowship in Spine Surgery at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio with Henry Bohlman, M.D. from 1981-1982.
Following his Fellowship in Spine Surgery, Dr. Zigler served as the Chief of the Spinal Injury Service at the Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center in Downey, California from 1982 to 1996. He moved to Dallas in 1996 to join the Texas Back Institute.
Since year 2000, Dr. Zigler has sub-specialized in motion preservation using Artificial Disc Replacements in both the lumbar and cervical spines. He has served as the Principal Investigator or sub-Investigator on over a dozen FDA/IDE trials. He has authored over 95 peer-reviewed articles, 3 textbooks on Spine, over 20 textbook chapters, and has given more than 300 presentations at national and international spine meetings. Dr. Zigler has trained several hundred Orthopaedic and Neurological Surgeons on the implantation of disc replacement devices, and has been the primary author on many seminal publications reporting the clinical outcomes of disc replacement versus fusion.
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Friday, February 23, 2024
3:15 PM – 3:25 PM PST
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Friday, February 23, 2024
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