Michael G. Kaiser MD, FACS

Dr Kaiser is a board-certified neurosurgeon and faculty member of the Neurosurgical Department at Columbia University with advanced subspecialty training in complex spinal surgery. Dr Kaiser's clinical interests include cervical spondylotic myelopathy, cervical and lumbar degenerative disease, minimally invasive spine surgery, spine and spinal cord tumours. His research interests clinical guideline development, evidence based treatment algorithms, and clinical outcome analysis.

Dr Kaiser is the Medical Director of the Valley Hospital Spine Center in New Jersey. He is an active member of numerous professional organizations including the American Association of Neurological Surgery, the Congress of Neurological Surgery, the AANS Joint Section on Spine & Peripheral Nerve, and the American College of Surgeons. He is presently a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine. He is an active member of the clinical guidelines committee of the Joint Section of Spine & Peripheral Nerve. Dr Kaiser also serves as an ad hoc reviewer of two nationally recognized peer-reviewed spine journals.