Benny T. Dahl MD, PhD, DMSci

Benny Dahl is an orthopedic surgeon who has 20 years of experience in spine surgery. In 2007 he was appointed the first full clinical professor in spine surgery at the University of Copenhagen and since 2010 he has contributed to the establishment of the first combined spine unit in Denmark with both orthopedic surgeons and neurosurgeons serving half of Denmark with highly specialized spine surgery. Benny Dahl is an active member of the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) and was the local host of the IMAST meeting in 2011 in Copenhagen. He has served as a member of the program committee at IMAST2012 and 2013 as well as the program committee at SRS from 2014 through 2016. He holds a Ph.D. in basic science and a doctoral thesis on inflammatory response after severe trauma and spine surgery. His current scientific activity is concentrated on various aspects of spinal deformity and spinal oncology as well as basic science. His clinical focus is directed towards pediatric and spinal deformity surgery.

Since March 2017 Benny Dahl has worked as a spine surgeon at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas, and as Professor of Orthopaedic and Scoliosis Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine. Benny Dahl has won the SRS Hibbs Award for Clinical Science and the Whitecloud Award for Best Clinical paper several times, as well as the Outstanding Paper Award in The Spine Journal. He has published more than 70 scientific articles and has been a co-author of almost 200 scientific abstracts. Also, Benny Dahl has been invited lecturer in England, Japan, China, and Indonesia and he has supervised more than ten Ph.D. studies.