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Todd J. Albert is affiliated with the Hospital for Special Surgery in the United States. Their primary field of research is Medicine, with significant focus on Surgery and related subfields such as Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Pharmacology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Biomedical Engineering.

The research topics covered by Todd J. Albert include:

  • Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
  • Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy
  • Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques
  • Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation
  • Scoliosis Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Medical Imaging and Analysis
  • Anesthesia and Pain Management

Todd J. Albert has contributed to numerous publications across a variety of respected spinal and orthopedic journals. Frequent venues for their work include:

  • The Spine Journal
  • Spine
  • Global Spine Journal
  • Clinical Spine Surgery A Spine Publication
  • Journal of Neurosurgery Spine

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Todd J. Albert include:

  • Effect of Ventral vs Dorsal Spinal Surgery on Patient-Reported Physical Functioning in Patients With Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy (2021, JAMA)
  • Fusion Rate for Stand-Alone Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion: A Systematic Review (2020, The Spine Journal)
  • The Spine Physical Examination Using Telemedicine: Strategies and Best Practices (2020, Global Spine Journal)
  • Does Interbody Cage Lordosis Impact Actual Segmental Lordosis Achieved in Minimally Invasive Lumbar Spine Fusion? (2020, Neurosurgical FOCUS)
  • How Do Areas of Work Life Drive Burnout in Orthopaedic Attending Surgeons, Fellows, and Residents? (2020, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research)

Collaborations have played a significant role in Todd J. Albert's research contributions. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Sheeraz A. Qureshi
  • Sravisht Iyer
  • Avani S. Vaishnav
  • Catherine Himo Gang
  • Francis Lovecchio

Best Publications

  • Surgical versus Nonsurgical Therapy for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis

    James N Weinstein;Tor D Tosteson;Jon D Lurie;Anna N A Tosteson

  • Donor site morbidity after anterior iliac crest bone harvest for single-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion.

    Jeff S. Silber;D. Greg Anderson;Scott D. Daffner;Brian T. Brislin

  • Surgical versus Nonsurgical Treatment for Lumbar Degenerative Spondylolisthesis

    James Neil Weinstein;Jon D. Lurie;Tor D. Tosteson;Brett Hanscom

  • Surgical vs nonoperative treatment for lumbar disk herniation: the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) observational cohort

    James Neil Weinstein;Jon D. Lurie;Tor D. Tosteson;Jonathan S. Skinner

  • Surgical versus nonoperative treatment for lumbar disc herniation: four-year results for the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT).

    James Neil Weinstein;Jon D. Lurie;Tor D. Tosteson;Anna N.A. Tosteson

  • Surgical versus nonoperative treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis four-year results of the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial.

    James Neil Weinstein;Tor D. Tosteson;Jon D. Lurie;Anna Tosteson

  • Surgical Versus Nonoperative Treatment for Lumbar Disc Herniation

    James Weinstein;Jon Lurie;Tor Tosteson;Anna Tosteson

  • Differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells towards a nucleus pulposus-like phenotype in vitro: implications for cell-based transplantation therapy.

    Makarand V Risbud;Todd J Albert;Asha Guttapalli;Edward J Vresilovic

  • Comparison of Transcranial Electric Motor and Somatosensory Evoked Potential Monitoring During Cervical Spine Surgery

    Alan S. Hilibrand;Daniel M. Schwartz;Venkat Sethuraman;Alexander R. Vaccaro

  • Evidence for skeletal progenitor cells in the degenerate human intervertebral disc.

    Makarand V. Risbud;Asha Guttapalli;Tsung-Ting Tsai;Joon Y. Lee

  • Proposal of a modified, treatment-oriented classification of odontoid fractures.

    Jonathan N. Grauer;Bilal Shafi;Alan S. Hilibrand;James S. Harrop

  • Placement of pedicle screws in the human cadaveric cervical spine: comparative accuracy of three techniques.

    Steven C. Ludwig;David L. Kramer;Richard A. Balderston;Alexander R. Vaccaro

  • The influence of obesity on the outcome of treatment of lumbar disc herniation: analysis of the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT).

    Jeffrey A. Rihn;Mark Kurd;Alan S. Hilibrand;Jon Lurie

  • Dysphagia after anterior cervical decompression and fusion: prevalence and risk factors from a longitudinal cohort study.

    Lee H. Riley;Richard L. Skolasky;Todd J. Albert;Alexander R. Vaccaro

  • Nucleus pulposus cells express HIF-1α under normoxic culture conditions: A metabolic adaptation to the intervertebral disc microenvironment

    Makarand V. Risbud;Asha Guttapalli;David G. Stokes;David Hawkins

  • Surgical treatment of spinal stenosis with and without degenerative spondylolisthesis: cost-effectiveness after 2 years.

    Anna N.A. Tosteson;Jon D. Lurie;Tor D. Tosteson;Jonathan S. Skinner

  • Comparative effectiveness evidence from the spine patient outcomes research trial: surgical versus nonoperative care for spinal stenosis, degenerative spondylolisthesis, and intervertebral disc herniation.

    Anna N.A. Tosteson;Tor D. Tosteson;Jon D. Lurie;William Abdu

  • Psychosocial aspects of disabling musculoskeletal pain.

    Ana Maria Vranceanu;Arthur Barsky;David Ring

  • Three-dimensional cartilage formation by bone marrow-derived cells seeded in polylactide/alginate amalgam.

    Edward J. Caterson;Leon J. Nesti;Wan-Ju Li;Keith G. Danielson

  • Invited submission from the Joint Section Meeting on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves, March 2004

    Todd J. Albert;David H. Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander R. Vaccaro
Alexander R. Vaccaro Thomas Jefferson University
Alan S. Hilibrand
Alan S. Hilibrand Thomas Jefferson University
Richard H. Rothman
Richard H. Rothman Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Han Jo Kim
Han Jo Kim Hospital for Special Surgery
James S. Harrop
James S. Harrop Thomas Jefferson University
Virginie Lafage
Virginie Lafage Lenox Hill Hospital
Makarand V. Risbud
Makarand V. Risbud Thomas Jefferson University
James Neil Weinstein
James Neil Weinstein Microsoft (United States)
Irving M. Shapiro
Irving M. Shapiro Thomas Jefferson University
Christopher P. Ames
Christopher P. Ames University of California, San Francisco

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