Eric Mai, BS

Research Fellow
Hospital for Special Surgery

I (Eric Mai, BS) am a medical student at Weill Cornell Medical College (Class of 2025) currently taking a gap year to work as a clinical research fellow at the Hospital for Special Surgery with the Minimally Invasive Spine Study Group focusing on outcomes related to minimally invasive spine surgery.

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Presentation(s):

• Clinical outcomes of CDR in patients over 50 year-old

  Friday, February 23, 2024
  8:03 AM – 8:06 AM PST

• Commonly used Patient-reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) Do Not Adequately Reflect Patient-perceived Changes in Health Status Following Spine Surgery

  Friday, February 23, 2024
  7:39 AM – 7:42 AM PST

• The Effect of Body Mass Index (BMI) on Radiation Exposure in Intra-operative Navigation-guided and Robotic-assisted Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (MIS-TLIF)

  Friday, February 23, 2024
  8:21 AM – 8:24 AM PST

• Predictors for Failure to Respond to Erector Spinae Plane Block Following Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion

  Friday, February 23, 2024
  7:40 AM – 7:42 AM PST

• Review of Intraoperative Management and Outcomes of Incidental Durotomy in Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

  Friday, February 23, 2024
  8:22 AM – 8:24 AM PST

• Utility of Preoperative Whole-Body Imaging in Candidates for Lumbar Spine Surgery: The Impact of Concomitant Lower Extremity Osteoarthritis

  Saturday, February 24, 2024
  8:20 AM – 8:22 AM PST

• Patients with degenerative scoliosis > 20 degrees are less likely to achieve MCID in pain and disability after minimally invasive decompression surgery.

  Saturday, February 24, 2024
  8:22 AM – 8:24 AM PST

• Patients with a Cobb angle > 20 degrees who undergo decompression across or between the end vertebrae have a lower likelihood of achieving the MCID.

  Saturday, February 24, 2024
  8:36 AM – 8:38 AM PST

• Spine Surgery Outcomes in Patients with Patient-Provider Language Discrepancy

  Saturday, February 24, 2024
  8:22 AM – 8:24 AM PST

• ChatGPT Answers Patient Focused Questions in Cervical Spine Surgery

  Saturday, February 24, 2024
  8:42 AM – 8:44 AM PST