Osher Mini Medical School: 'Back and Neck Pain: Precision Spine Diagnosis Guides Therapy'
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Personalized Medicine Powered by Precision Imaging
Meet world-renowned experts from the UCSF Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, who are using and developing new and innovative precision imaging tools to enhance diagnosis, improve disease monitoring, and optimize treatment in the individual patient. In close partnership with subspecialty physicians from other UCSF departments, radiologists are now able to use these tools to pinpoint and better treat disorders such as prostate cancer, breast cancer and degenerative spine and joint disease at earlier stages. This series of lectures will explain how emerging technologies – including specific artificial intelligence platforms – will rely upon imaging to dramatically improve accuracy, safety, and outcomes for patients in the very near future.
Learn more about this Osher Mini Medical School series
Co-Chairs:
William P. Dillon, M.D.
Professor and Executive Vice Chair
Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging
Christopher P. Hess, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Chair
Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging
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Personalized Medicine Powered by Precision Imaging
Meet world-renowned experts from the UCSF Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, who are using and developing new and innovative precision imaging tools to enhance diagnosis, improve disease monitoring, and optimize treatment in the individual patient. In close partnership with subspecialty physicians from other UCSF departments, radiologists are now able to use these tools to pinpoint and better treat disorders such as prostate cancer, breast cancer and degenerative spine and joint disease at earlier stages. This series of lectures will explain how emerging technologies – including specific artificial intelligence platforms – will rely upon imaging to dramatically improve accuracy, safety, and outcomes for patients in the very near future.
Learn more about this Osher Mini Medical School series
Co-Chairs:
William P. Dillon, M.D.
Professor and Executive Vice Chair
Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging
Christopher P. Hess, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Chair
Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging
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Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
Dr. Aaron Clark joined the Department of Neurological Surgery in 2015. The main focus of his practice is to provide minimally invasive outpatient procedures for lumbar/cervical herniated discs and lumbar/cervical stenosis at UCSF’s Mt. Zion location. Minimally invasive spine procedures are associated with shorter recovery and less postoperative pain than standard surgeries, and almost all patients can return home the same day. Dr. Clark also specializes in minimally invasive lumbar fusion surgery, adult spinal deformity surgery, and spinal oncology.
Dr. Clark earned his medical and postdoctoral degrees from the Medical College of Virginia. He is a graduate of UCSF’s neurological surgery residency program, where he developed his interest in spine surgery and began publishing research on spinal oncology, spine biomechanics, spinal deformity, and intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring during spine surgery. In 2014 he completeda fellowship in minimally invasive spine surgery at the Semmes-Murphey Neurologic and Spine Institute in Memphis, Tennessee under the mentorship of Kevin Foley, MD, a pioneer in minimally invasive spine surgery.