Director, Center for Spine Health
Cleveland Clinic
Neurosurgery
Dr. Michael P. Steinmetz, MD
Michael Steinmetz works in the field of Neurosurgery. He went to Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine. He has 25 awards "Golden Apple Teacher of the Year, Department of Neurological Surgery", "Gurdjian-Thomas Visiting Professor, Department of Neurosurgery", "1st Place Poster Session, Neurosurgical Forum, Congress of Neurological Surgeons", "Synthese Award for Resident Research in Spinal Cord and Column Injury", "Young Investigator Award", "World Class Service Award in Leadership", "Sanford Larson Research Award", "1st Place Poster Session, Congress of Neurological Surgeons Meeting", "Marquis Whos Who in America", "Cloward Fellowship Award", "Academic Award-Department of Neurosurgery", "Humanitarian Award-Department of Neurosurgery", "Deans Highest Academic Achievement", "Gold Headed Cane Award", "Outstanding Student in Neurology", "Outstanding Student in Surgery", "Junior Alpha Omega Alpha", "McGraw Hill Recognition of Outstanding Medical Student", "Outstanding Student in Pharmacology", "Robert Flygare Scholarship", "Southern Medical Association Scholarship", "ONeil Endowed Scholarship", "Alumni Out of State Scholarship", "Golden Key National Honor Society" and "Fellow (FAANS)". Michael P. Steinmetz, MD is a published doctor. He has 90 papers published. The most current publication "[The importance of roentgenological and scintigraphic studies in patients with and without thigh pain following cementless PCA hip endoprosthesis]." Doctor Michael P. Steinmetz, MD accepts Medicare.
Publications
- Predisposing Characteristics of Adjacent Segment Disease Following Lumbar Fusion.
- Adjacent segment degeneration and disease following cervical arthroplasty: a Systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Decreased mortality in traumatic Brain injury following regionalization across hospital systems.
- Adjacent Level Ligamentous Injury Associated with Traumatic Cervical Spine Fractures: Indications for Imaging and Implications for Treatment.
- Reoperation Rates after Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion versus Posterior Cervical Foraminotomy: a propensity matched analysis.
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation After Spinal Cord Injury.
- Potential Role of Growth Factors in the Management of Spinal Cord Injury.
- Postoperative Cervical sagittal imbalance negatively affects outcomes after surgery for Cervical spondylotic myelopathy.
- Optimal duration of conservative management prior to surgery for Cervical and lumbar radiculopathy: a literature review.
- Quality-of-Life Outcomes following ThoracoLumbar and Lumbar Fusion with and without the Use of Recombinant Human Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2: Does Recombinant Human B...
- Differences in the surgical treatment of recurrent lumbar disc herniation among Spine surgeons in the United States.
- Is Minimal Access Spine Surgery More Cost-effective Than Conventional Spine Surgery?
- Surgical versus Non-Surgical Treatment of Subaxial Cervical Pedicle Fractures.
- Low Lumbar Fractures: Does TLICS Work?
- Effects of an Immunomodulatory Therapy and Chondroitinase After Spinal Cord Hemisection Injury.
- The possibility of clinical trials in neurophysiologic intraoperative monitoring: a review.
- Cervical Arthroplasty: A Critical Review of the Literature.
- Stereotactic radiosurgery for metastatic Spine tumors.
- Central diabetes insipidus after staged Spinal surgery.
- Bilateral Pedicle Screw Fixation versus Unilateral Pedicle and Contralateral Facet Screws for Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion: Clinical Outco...
- Clinical Outcomes Following Surgical Management of Coexistent Cervical Stenosis and Multiple Sclerosis: A Cohort Controlled Analysis.
- Predicting C5 Palsy using Preoperative Anatomic Measurements.
- Complications and Outcomes for Surgical Approaches to Cervical Kyphosis.
- Traumatic Spondyloptosis of the Lumbar Spine: Closed Reduction and Internal Fixation.
- The role of the crossed phrenic pathway after cervical contusion Injury and a new model to evaluate therapeutic interventions.
- Rates of anterior Cervical discectomy and fusion after initial posterior Cervical foraminotomy.
- Relationship between degree of focal kyphosis correction and neurological outcomes for patients undergoing Cervical deformity correction surgery.
- Adverse Events With the Use of rhBMP-2 in Thoracolumbar and Lumbar Spine Fusions: A Nine Year Institutional Analysis.
- Lateral extracavitary vs. costotransversectomy approaches to the thoracic Spine: reflections on lessons learned.
- In reply. Direct lateral approach to pathology at the cranioCervical junction.
- Lateral Extracavitary, Costotransversectomy, and Transthoracic Thoracotomy Approaches to the Thoracic Spine: Review of Techniques and Complications.
- Circumferential Cervical Surgery : To Stage or Not to Stage?
- Oncomodulin affords limited regeneration to injured sensory axons in vitro and in vivo.
- Direct lateral approach to pathology at the cranioCervical junction: a technical note.
- Novel reduction technique for thoracolumbar Fracture-dislocations.
- The Unusual Response of Serotonergic Neurons after CNS Injury: Lack of Axonal Dieback and Enhanced Sprouting within the Inhibitory Environment of the Glial Scar.
- Comparative effectiveness of ventral vs dorsal surgery for Cervical spondylotic myelopathy.
- Dorsal versus ventral surgery for Cervical ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament: considerations for approach selection and review of surgical outcomes.
- Factors affecting lateral mass screw placement at C-7.
- The state of Lumbar fusion extenders.
- The Utility of Repeated Postoperative Radiographs Following Lumbar Instrumented Fusion for Degenerative Lumbar Spine.
- Radiation exposure to the surgeon during open lumbar microDiscectomy and minimally invasive microDiscectomy: a prospective, controlled trial.
- The role of adjuvant radiation therapy in the treatment of Spinal myxopapillary ependymomas.
- Radiation exposure to the surgeon during percutaneous pedicle screw placement.
- A combination immunomodulatory treatment promotes neuroprotection and locomotor recovery after contusion SCI.
- Craniovertebral junction: biomechanical considerations.
- Effective lordosis: analysis of sagittal spinal canal alignment in Cervical spondylotic myelopathy.
- Conventional versus digital radiographs for intraoperative Cervical spine-level localization: a prospective time and cost analysis.
- Common pitfalls in interpretation of medical evidence: a case demonstration of misleading interpretation in the analysis of Cervical spine fusions.
- Morphometric and volumetric analysis of the lateral masses of the lower Cervical spine.
- Is it safe to use recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein in posterior Cervical fusion?
- The use of allograft bone in Spine surgery: is it safe?
- Cervical disc arthroplasty compared with fusion in a workers' compensation population.
- Musculoskeletal allograft risks and recalls in the United States.
- Segmental spinal instrumentation in the management of Scoliosis.
- A review of the utility of obtaining repeated postoperative radiographs following single-level anterior Cervical decompression, fusion, and plate placement.
- Minimally invasive surgical treatment of Bertolotti's Syndrome: case report.
- An invasion of the atlas.
- Use of a ventral cervical retractor System for minimal access transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion: technical case report.
- Cervical deformity correction.
- Cervical laminoplasty.
- Axially dynamic implants for stabilization of the Cervical spine.
- Regional instability following cervicothoracic junction surgery.
- Surgical management of osseous hemangioblastoma of the thoracic Spine: technical case report.
- Chronic enhancement of the intrinsic growth capacity of sensory neurons combined with the degradation of inhibitory proteoglycans allows functional regeneration of sen...
- Effects of age on the perioperative characteristics and short-term outcome of posterior Lumbar fusion surgery.
- Awake craniotomy for microsurgical obliteration of mycotic Aneurysms: technical report of three cases.
- Techniques for the ventral correction of postsurgical Cervical kyphotic deformity.
- Biomechanics of metastatic spine Cancer.
- A transcranial approach for direct mechanical thrombectomy of dural sinus Thrombosis. Report of two cases.
- Studies on the development and behavior of the dystrophic growth cone, the hallmark of regeneration failure, in an in vitro model of the glial scar and after Spinal co...
- Outcome after the treatment of Spinal dural arteriovenous fistulae: a contemporary single-institution series and meta-analysis.
- Successful surgical management of a case of spontaneous epidural hematoma of the Spine during pregnancy.
- Cervical spondylotic myelopathy: make the difficult diagnosis, then refer for surgery.
- Atlantooccipital dislocation in children: presentation, diagnosis, and management.
- Ventral correction of postsurgical Cervical kyphosis.
- Preliminary experience with the DOC dynamic Cervical implant for the treatment of multilevel Cervical spondylosis.
- Dual-strap augmentation of a halo orthosis in the treatment of atlantooccipital dislocation in infants and young children. Technical note.
- Management of metastatic tumors of the Spine: strategies and operative indications.
- Vertex epidural hematoma: surgical versus conservative management: two case reports and review of the literature.
- Metastatic seeding of the stereotactic biopsy tract in glioblastoma multiforme: case report and review of the literature.
- Biomechanics of thoracic Discectomy.
- The value of neuromonitoring in Cervical spine surgery.
- Identifying serious causes of back pain: Cancer, infection, fracture.
- Short-term and long-term hemodynamic and clinical effects of metoprolol alone and combined with amlodipine in patients with chronic heart failure.
- Endoscopic third ventriculostomy for obstructive Hydrocephalus in the pediatric population: evaluation of outcome.
- Successful treatment of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus meningitis with linezolid: case report and review of the literature.
- [The importance of roentgenological and scintigraphic studies in patients with and without thigh Pain following cementless PCA hip endoprosthesis].
- Molecular and clinical prognostic factors for favorable outcome following surgical resection of adult intramedullary spinal cord Astrocytomas.
Schools
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School Of Medicine
Procedures Preformed
- CerebroSpinal Fluid (CSF) Shunt - Insertion, Repair or Removal
- Craniectomy, Craniotomy, Surgery of Skull Base, Neuroendoscopy
- Dural Repair or Other Spinal Spinal Cord Repair
- Epidural Block, Facet Blocks
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Conditions Treated
- Acoustic Neuroma
- Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
- Brain Aneurysm
- Brain Cancer
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Doctors Specialties
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Golden Apple Teacher of the Year, Department of Neurological Surgery
- Gurdjian-Thomas Visiting Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
- 1st Place Poster Session, Neurosurgical Forum, Congress of Neurological Surgeons
- Synthese Award for Resident Research in Spinal Cord and Column Injury
- Young Investigator Award
- World Class Service Award in Leadership
- Sanford Larson Research Award
- 1st Place Poster Session, Congress of Neurological Surgeons Meeting
- Marquis Who’s Who in America
- Cloward Fellowship Award
- Academic Award-Department of Neurosurgery
- Humanitarian Award-Department of Neurosurgery
- Dean’s Highest Academic Achievement
- Gold Headed Cane Award
- Outstanding Student in Neurology
- Outstanding Student in Surgery
- Junior Alpha Omega Alpha
- McGraw Hill Recognition of Outstanding Medical Student
- Outstanding Student in Pharmacology
- Robert Flygare Scholarship
- Southern Medical Association Scholarship
- O’Neil Endowed Scholarship
- Alumni Out of State Scholarship
- Golden Key National Honor Society
- Fellow (FAANS)
Education
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Cleveland Clinic Foundation
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Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine
Hospital
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Cleveland Clinic
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MetroHealth Medical Center
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