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As of October 2026, according to ScienceLeadR, the leading experts on Spine are Michael G Fehlings (Toronto Western Hospital, Canada), Alexander R Vaccaro (Rothman Orthopaedics, United States) and Daniel M Sciubba (Northwell Health, United States), ranked by scientific expertise on this MeSH term among 103,513 matching experts. How the ranking works.
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Full top 25 ranking: Top Spine key opinion leaders
Top Spine key opinion leaders
Experts are ranked by their scientific expertise on this MeSH term. The overall SLR shown for each expert is the ScienceLeadR Reputation score across all topics, computed from publications, clinical trials, patents and grants; it is not the sort key. Top 25 of 103,513 experts matching this MeSH term.
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Michael G Fehlings — Toronto Western Hospital, Canada — overall SLR (all topics) 5772
Alexander R Vaccaro — Rothman Orthopaedics, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 4858
Daniel M Sciubba — Northwell Health, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 2555
Christopher I Shaffrey — Duke University Hospital, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 3409
Virginie Lafage — Hospital for Special Surgery, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 3673
Christopher P Ames — UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 3219
Alan H Daniels — Rhode Island Hospital, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 3234
Shiro Imagama — Nagoya University, Japan — overall SLR (all topics) 3788
Tony L Yaksh — University of California, San Diego, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 3141
Armin Curt — University of Zurich, Switzerland — overall SLR (all topics) 1648
Gregory D Schroeder — Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 2576
Ziya L Gokaslan — Rhode Island Hospital, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 2113
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