About the Author

Dr. Vaccaro is a Professor and Attending Surgeon of Orthopaedics and Neurosurgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and a partner at the Rothman Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is a Board-certified Orthopaedic Surgeon and licensed to practice Orthopaedics in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, California, Delaware and Hawaii. His Orthopaedic practice is limited to the Management and Treatment of Disorders of the Spine. Dr. Vaccaro is also the Co-Director of the Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center of the Delaware Valley, one of the largest tertiary referral centers for spinal cord injury in the nation. Dr. Vaccaro holds numerous Society memberships including the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the Philadelphia Orthopaedic Society, and the Philadelphia College of Surgeons, the Cervical Spine Research Society, the North American Spine Society, the Scoliosis Research Society, the American Orthopaedic Association, and the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine. In 2000, he was selected to be an AOA-Japanese Orthopaedic Traveling Fellow where he toured various academic universities in Japan.

He has done extensive research on a broad range of topics related to disorders of the spine and has 236 peer reviewed and 129 non-peer reviewed publications. He has published 175 book chapters and is the editor of 19 textbooks and co-editor of OKU-Spine I and editor of OKU-8. His current research involves the timing of surgery after traumatic spinal cord injury, the use of alternative bone graft substitutes in spinal fusion surgery including recombinant tissue engineering, invasive methods to stabilize osteoporotic compression fractures, and the development of spinal implants for traumatic degenerative disorders of the spine. In addition to his numerous clinical academic responsibilities, Dr. Vaccaro is also the Co-Director of the Spine Fellowship program at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and instructs current fellows and residents in the diagnosis and treatment of various spinal problems and disorders.