Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon Specializing in Complex Pediatric Scoliosis Ana Lucia Professor of Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center
Ana Lucia Professor of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery and Neurosurgery
Vice Chair, Quality and Strategy, Orthopedic Surgery
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
Director, Division of Pediatric Orthopaedics
Chief, Pediatric Spine and Scoliosis Service
MORGAN STANLEY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN
Safety in Spine Surgery Project
Dr. Vitale founded The Safety in Spine Surgery Project (S3P) in 2016 to help improve safety in spine surgery across the nation. Its mission is to identify ways to enhance the safety and sustainability of spine surgery and work with stakeholders in spine surgery to prevent harm.
Halo + Posterior Spinal Fusion and Instrumentation Case | Hamzy
This is a 13 year old with a complicated medical history including TAPVR, ASD, and PDA (all cardiac) that was repaired on day 9 of life. He was having daily back pain. He had an attempted spinal fusion at an outside hospital but because of complications due to an allergy, ...
Scoliosis Patient Story | Competitive Dancer Back on Stage
Emma is a 13 year old competitive dancer; performing jazz, tap, lyrical, ballet, and modern dance! She came to see Dr. Vitale when she was first diagnosed with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis at age 12. At that time her main curve was already 53 degrees.
Anterior Vertebral Body Tethering (AVBT) Case & Surgical Procedure
Vertebral Body Tethering is a growth modulation technique similar to vertebral stapling. This technique is different in that it involves placing pedicle screws in the anterior vertebral bodies. This is typically done thorascopically. The screws are attached to each other with a flexible, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) cable ...
Samantha's curve was impacting her quality of life, so Dr. Vitale proceeded with a spinal fusion and instrumentation. She went from a 55 degree curve that was causing deformity and back pain to a 15 degree curve. “Dr. Vitale not only fused my spine, he gave me back my dreams!"
My team and I developed this unique application to allow you and your family to measure and keep track of your child's curve and to provide some additional functionality and information that we hope you will find helpful.
Meghan is a healthy young girl who was diagnosed with Early Onset Scoliosis when she was 6 years old. Meghan came to see Dr. Vitale soon after she was diagnosed. At that visit her main thoracic curve measured 61 degrees.
Fatoumata was 8 years old when she first presented to our office. At that time, she had a 15 degree thoracic curve and a 15 degree lumbar curve. Her curve progressed to almost 30 degrees so she started bracing with...
Truly honored to be asked to give keynote and spend time with old friends as part of Vern Tolo day, raising money for the amazing research being done at CHLA. Dr Tolo still has so much to teach -about orthopedics and life- all these years later
Thank you @mgv16 @OrthoColumbia for your constant support of CG, inviting us to speak at today’s #scoliosis event, and always listening to your patient! 💚💪
So excited to kick off scoliosis awareness month with our annual conservative scoliosis meeting . Great presentations by so many inc DR Rigo, Sanders, Leah Stolz of Curvy Girls and partner Ben Roye. Great learning how to #curescoliosis. @childrensspine @OrthoColumbia @SRS_org