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Overview

Christopher P. Ames is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant emphasis on surgery, pathology and forensic medicine, biomedical engineering, physiology, and geriatrics and gerontology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics within spinal health and treatment. These include:

  • Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment
  • Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques
  • Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
  • Medical Imaging and Analysis
  • Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy
  • Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries
  • Frailty in Older Adults

Christopher P. Ames has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in leading journals such as:

  • The Spine Journal
  • Spine
  • Journal of Neurosurgery Spine
  • Neurosurgery
  • Global Spine Journal

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Sagittal age-adjusted score (SAAS) for adult spinal deformity (ASD) more effectively predicts surgical outcomes and proximal junctional kyphosis than previous classifications," 2021, Spine Deformity
  • "Association between lower Hounsfield units and proximal junctional kyphosis and failure at the upper thoracic spine," 2022, Journal of Neurosurgery Spine
  • "The association between lower Hounsfield units of the upper instrumented vertebra and proximal junctional kyphosis in adult spinal deformity surgery with a minimum 2-year follow-up," 2020, Neurosurgical FOCUS
  • "Are Higher Global Alignment and Proportion Scores Associated With Increased Risks of Mechanical Complications After Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery? An External Validation," 2020, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
  • "Systemic considerations for the surgical treatment of spinal metastatic disease: a scoping literature review," 2022, The Lancet Oncology

Collaboration forms a significant part of their research approach. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Shay Bess
  • Christopher I. Shaffrey
  • Virginie Lafage
  • Justin S. Smith
  • Eric O. Klineberg

Best Publications

  • Radiographical spinopelvic parameters and disability in the setting of adult spinal deformity: a prospective multicenter analysis.

    Frank J. Schwab;Benjamin Blondel;Benjamin Blondel;Shay Bess;Richard Hostin

  • Cervical spine alignment, sagittal deformity, and clinical implications: A review

    Justin K. Scheer;Jessica A. Tang;Justin S. Smith;Frank L. Acosta

  • The Impact of Standing Regional Cervical Sagittal Alignment on Outcomes in Posterior Cervical Fusion Surgery

    Jessica A. Tang;Justin K. Scheer;Justin S. Smith;Vedat Deviren

  • The Comprehensive Anatomical Spinal Osteotomy Classification

    Frank Schwab;Benjamin Blondel;Benjamin Blondel;Edward Chay;Jason Demakakos

  • Cervical radiographical alignment: comprehensive assessment techniques and potential importance in cervical myelopathy.

    Christopher P. Ames;Benjamin Blondel;Justin K. Scheer;Frank J. Schwab

  • TheT1 pelvic angle, a novel radiographic measure of global sagittal deformity, accounts for both spinal inclination and pelvic tilt and correlates with health-related quality of life

    Themistocles Protopsaltis;Frank Schwab;Nicolas Bronsard;Justin S. Smith

  • The SRS-Schwab adult spinal deformity classification: assessment and clinical correlations based on a prospective operative and nonoperative cohort.

    Jamie Terran;Frank Schwab;Christopher I. Shaffrey;Justin S. Smith

  • Complications in the surgical treatment of 19,360 cases of pediatric scoliosis: a review of the Scoliosis Research Society Morbidity and Mortality database.

    Davis L. Reames;Justin S. Smith;Kai Ming G. Fu;David W. Polly

  • Defining Spino-Pelvic Alignment Thresholds: Should Operative Goals in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery Account for Age?

    Renaud Lafage;Frank Schwab;Vincent Challier;Jensen K. Henry

  • Change in classification grade by the SRS-Schwab Adult Spinal Deformity Classification predicts impact on health-related quality of life measures: prospective analysis of operative and nonoperative treatment.

    Justin S Smith;Eric Klineberg;Frank Schwab;Christopher I Shaffrey

  • Impact of spinopelvic alignment on decision making in deformity surgery in adults: A review.

    Christopher P Ames;Justin S Smith;Justin K Scheer;Shay Bess

  • Predictive factors for proximal junctional kyphosis in long fusions to the sacrum in adult spinal deformity

    Keishi Maruo;Keishi Maruo;Yoon Ha;Shinichi Inoue;Shinichi Inoue;Sumant Samuel

  • Imaging currents in HgTe quantum wells in the quantum spin Hall regime

    Katja C. Nowack;Eric M. Spanton;Eric M. Spanton;Matthias Baenninger;Matthias Baenninger;Markus König;Markus König

  • Prospective multicenter assessment of perioperative and minimum 2-year postoperative complication rates associated with adult spinal deformity surgery

    Justin S. Smith;Eric Otto Klineberg;Virginie Lafage;Christopher I. Shaffrey

  • Stereotactic body radiotherapy is effective salvage therapy for patients with prior radiation of spinal metastases.

    Arjun Sahgal;Arjun Sahgal;Christopher Ames;Dean Chou;Lijun Ma

  • Rates of new neurological deficit associated with spine surgery based on 108,419 procedures: A report of the scoliosis research society morbidity and mortality committee

    D. Kojo Hamilton;Justin S. Smith;Charles A. Sansur;Steven D. Glassman

  • Incidence, mode, and location of acute proximal junctional failures after surgical treatment of adult spinal deformity.

    Richard Hostin;Ian McCarthy;Ian McCarthy;Michael O'Brien;Shay Bess

  • Outcomes of Operative and Nonoperative Treatment for Adult Spinal Deformity: A Prospective, Multicenter, Propensity-Matched Cohort Assessment With Minimum 2-Year Follow-up.

    Justin S. Smith;Virginie Lafage;Christopher I. Shaffrey;Frank Schwab

  • Reliability assessment of a novel cervical spine deformity classification system

    Christopher P. Ames;Justin S. Smith;Robert Eastlack;Donald J. Blaskiewicz

  • The Health Impact of Symptomatic Adult Spinal Deformity: Comparison of Deformity Types to United States Population Norms and Chronic Diseases.

    Shay Bess;Breton Line;Kai Ming Fu;Ian Mccarthy

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank J. Schwab
Frank J. Schwab Hospital for Special Surgery
Virginie Lafage
Virginie Lafage Lenox Hill Hospital
Han Jo Kim
Han Jo Kim Hospital for Special Surgery
Justin S. Smith
Justin S. Smith University of Virginia
Daniel M. Sciubba
Daniel M. Sciubba Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Oheneba Boachie-Adjei
Oheneba Boachie-Adjei Weill Cornell Medicine
Sigurd Berven
Sigurd Berven University of California, San Francisco
Praveen V. Mummaneni
Praveen V. Mummaneni University of California, San Francisco
Michael G. Fehlings
Michael G. Fehlings University of Toronto

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