Matthew Gary

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Excited to meet and help teach future endoscopic spine surgeons. Always fun to teach with a former fellow and now colluege, Osama!

Shout out and congrats to @EmoryNeurosurg resident @AliAlawiehmdphd for this honor 🎊🎉 great work and well deserved

Ventral thoracic intradural tumors can be safely reached from a posterior approach with release of the dentate ligaments and drilling more of the facets. @emoryhealthcare @EmoryNeurosurg @spinesection

.@EKNduom is exploring a clinical trial to teach the brain’s immune system to fight back again glioblastoma. Learn more tmrw night on @EmoryBrain’s @YourFantasticMind at 7PM on @myGPB.

Emory’s first (and likely Georgia’s first) endoscopic single portal thoracic discectomy.  Patient nonambulatory 2 weeks.  Ambulating POD1 and home POD2. Exciting stuff! @EmoryMidtown @emoryhealthcare @EmoryNeurosurg @AliAlawiehmdphd @spinesection

Proud to be named an Atlanta Top Doctor in neurosurgery for a second year! Could not do it without and amazing group of nurses, APPs, residents, MAs, co-surgeons and administrators. ⁦@EmoryMidtown⁩ ⁦@emoryhealthcare⁩ ⁦@AtlantaMagazine⁩

We had an amazing time in Cartagena, Colombia for their Congreso Nacional de Neurocirugia 2023 meeting. Amazing culture, wonderful people and beautiful city.

Finalizing your neurosurgery sub-I list? Consider a month at Emory where you will see every subspecialty, meet great people, and spend a month in a dynamic city. med.emory.edu/departments/ne… @EKNduom @BrianHoward_MD @KimberlyBHoang @GarzonMuvdi @MFGaryMD @FadiPaulJacob @ReemADawoud

Given her severe positive SVA surgical plan was a L5/S1 ALIF, L2-4 OLIF, and posterior L2-Pelvis instrumented fusion. The olif was challenging given the grade 3 spondy but an expandable trial helped with the reduction. @CNS_Update @spinesection

Here is a good example of why we always teach to leave at least 6mm of pars when doing a laminectomy. Especially adjacent to a fusion. ⁦@CNS_Update⁩ ⁦@spinesection⁩ ⁦@AliAlawiehmdphd⁩

Always great to be able to train/teach surgical techniques on cadaver’s with Emory residents. Great morning doing anterior/posterior cervical approaches. Thank you Medtronic for supplying the cadavers and equipment. ⁦@Medtronic⁩ ⁦@EmoryNeurosurg⁩ ⁦@CNS_Update⁩

@MIS_SpineExpert @CNS_Update @EmoryNeurosurg @emoryhealthcare @AliAlawiehmdphd That is what I have been told. Approx 20 cases until you are “over” the curve.

@MFGaryMD @CNS_Update @EmoryNeurosurg @emoryhealthcare @AliAlawiehmdphd Very Nice! I recall the steep but moderately protracted learning curve w the endoscopic trans-foraminal & Inter laminar MED (the former w irrigation/the latter wo) in the mid-late ‘90s. It took about 20-25 cases to feel truly confident

Performed our 6th endoscopic spine case. Took about 90min. Starting to hit a stride and feel more comfortable with this very powerful technique! Right L5/S1 interlaminar discectomy. ⁦@CNS_Update⁩ ⁦@EmoryNeurosurg⁩ ⁦@emoryhealthcare⁩ ⁦@AliAlawiehmdphd⁩

My daughter asked me how many people are on earth. I told her 7 billion. Well as of last month, Nov 2022, we hit 8 billion according to Wikipedia! Did I miss that in the news? Seems like a big deal.

I started SI joint fusions 1 year ago and have become a firm believer. This patient I saw today and has had a 90% improvement in his preop pain. @CNS_Update @spinesection @EmoryMidtown @emoryhealthcare

@CNS_Update @EmoryNeurosurg @spinesection @emoryhealthcare @EmoryMidtown

Previous L2-S1 fusion presenting with severe pain and weakness. Adjacent degeneration at L2/3 causing severe pain/weakness but not a good surgical candidate secondary to worsening metastatic cancer. Endoscopic technique will allow her to rapidly receive her cancer treatments.

Today we did 2 robotic MIS TLIFs, a tubular foraminotomy and percutaneous SI joint fusion. Days like these sure are exciting to be a spine surgeon! ⁦@EmoryMidtown⁩ ⁦@emoryhealthcare⁩

@GarzonMuvdi @EmorySkullBase @TumorLab @EmoryBrain @EmoryNeurosurg @EmoryMedicine I couldn’t have had a better interview partner for the day.

Tremendous group of applicants to the Emory Neurosurgery residency. I am so proud to be part of this great neurosurgery family!!! @EmorySkullBase @TumorLab @EmoryBrain @EmoryNeurosurg @EmoryMedicine @MFGaryMD