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Present Professional Positions
Neurosurgical Spine Specialist
Medical Director, Center for Restorative Spine
Surgery, St. Paul MN
Editor-In-Chief,
The Burton®
Report (burtrep@ens.net)
Clinical Practice Address
The Center for Restorative Spine Surgery, Gallery Tower Office Building,
514 St. Peter Street, Suite 220, St. Paul MN 55102
Phone: (651) 287.8781, Fax: (651) 287.8782
E-Mail:
restorative@ens.net
Education:
High School: 1949-1952 The
High School of Music and Art, New York City, NY (Major in Art)
College: 1952-1956 Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (Biological Sciences)
Medical School: 1956-1960 New York Medical College, New York City
Internship: 1961-1962 Yale
Medical Center and Grace New Haven Hospital, (Surgery) New Haven, CT
Residency:
1962-1966 Assistant Resident
in Neurological Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
1965-1966 Chief Resident in
Neurological Surgery, Baltimore City Hospitals; MD
1966-1967 Chief Resident in
Neurological Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Professional
Certifications:
1971
Diplomate, American College of
Surgeons
1972 American Board of
Neurological Surgery
1996 American Board of
Forensic Medicine
1998
Diplomate, American Board of Spine
Surgery
Recertification 2004
Previous Professional Positions:
1967- 1969 Chief of
Neurosurgery and Associate Chief of Surgery USPHS Hospital, Seattle, WA
1969-1970 Clinical Instructor in Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital
1970-1973 Assistant Professor
of Neurosurgery, Temple University Health Sciences Center, Philadelphia
1973-1974 Associate Professor
of Neurosurgery, Temple University Health Sciences Center, Philadelphia,
1974-1981 Director, Department
of Neuroaugmentive Surgery; Director, Low Back Clinic, Sister Kenny
Institute, Minneapolis, MN
1981-1996 Medical Director,
Institute for Low Back Care, Minneapolis, MN
1996-2004 Senior Medical Director,
Institute for Low Back and Neck Care, Minneapolis, MN
2004- Medical Director, The Center for Restorative Spine Surgery, Minneapolis and
St. Paul, MN
Professional Activities:
1967-1969 Military
Neurosurgeon, U.S. Navy
1971-1973 Medical-Legal
Committee Philadelphia County Medical Society
1971-1974 Fire/ Police
Surgeon, Gladwyne, Pennsylvania
1972-1977 Chairman, Congress
of Neurological Surgeons Committee on Materials and Devices
1973-1977 Co-Chairman, Joint
Neurosurgical Committee on Materials and Devices of the American
Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of the Neurological
Surgeons
1973-1977 Advisory Board,
Medical Devices, American National Standards Institute
1973-1982 Neurostimulation
Subcommittee, Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
1973-1977 Chairman, American
Society for Testing and Materials, F4.5 Committee on Materials
1974 Member, U.S. Government
Biomedical Instrumentation Delegation to the Soviet Union
1974-1977 Chairman, U.S.
Government Food and Drug Administration, Advisory Panel on Neurological
Devices
1974-1977 Chairman,
International Standards Organization, TC150/SC3 Working Group on Medical
Materials
1974-1978 American College of
Surgeons Medical Devices Committee
1975-1990 Hennepin County
Medical-Legal Committee
1975-1977 Membership
Committee, Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
1976-1977 Chairman, Midwest
Neurosurgical Study Group on Neurostimulation for the Relief of Pain
1976-1978 President, Board of
Directors, National Board of Examiners for Registered Neuroaugmentation
Therapists
1976- 1985 Minnesota State Medical
Association Medical Testimony Committee
1976-1977 Chairman, U.S.
Government Food and Drug Administration Subcommittee on Neurostimulation
1976-1977 Co-Chairman,
Neurological Standards Subcommittee, Assoc. for the Advance. of Medical
Instrumentation
1978-1980 Board of Directors,
Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
1980- Chairman, Sister Kenny Institute Conference "Comprehensive
Conservative Approach to Low Back Care", Minneapolis, MN
1981-2004 Medical Director and Senior Medical Director, The Institute
for Low Back and Neck Care
1983-1988
Consultant, American
Association of Consulting Toxicologists
1984-1985, 1988-1992 Member,
Executive Committee, North American Spine Association
1985-1987 Chairman, Site
Committee, North American Spine Association
1985 Program Chairman, 1985
Challenge of the Lumbar Spine, Minneapolis, MN
1986-1989 Executive Committee,
International Society for Study of the Lumbar Spine
1986-1995 Editor,
Neurorthopedics
1986-1991 President,
Minnesota Chapter, Johns Hopkins Alumni Association
1988-1993. Chairman of the
Board of Directors, Spinal Designs International, Minneapolis
1989-1992 Executive Committee,
American College of Surgeons, Minnesota Chapter
1990-1994 Member, Board of
Directors, North American Spine Society
1991-1992 Chairman, Committee
on Ethics and Professional Practice, North American Spine Society.
1992-1994 Director, Council on
Member Affairs, North American Spine Society.
1994-1995 President, Twin
Cities Spine Society.
1994-2000 Member, IRB Board,
Abbott-Northwestern Hospital
1997-2003 Member, Board of Directors, American Board of Spine Surgery
1998- Chairman, Committee on
Ethics, American Board of Spine Surgery
2000- Editor-in-Chief, The Burton Report®, Online Informatives:
Health Care,
Forensic Medicine,
Lumbar Spine
2001- Chairman, Medical-Legal Committee, American College of Spine
Surgeons.
2002-2003 Vice Chairman, American Board of Spine Surgery
2004 Program Chairman, American College of Spine Surgery, Board Review
Course, Naples, FL
Research Appointments:
1956-1957 Research Fellow,
National Polio Foundation, New York Medical College
1958-1959 Research Fellow,
U.S. Dept. Health, Education, and Welfare, New York Medical College
1960-1961, 1962-1967,
1969-1970 Fellow in Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Johns
Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
1968-1969 Visiting Research
Affiliate, Primate Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Patents:
3645254 Surgical
Headlight
3653385 Production of Focal
Brain Lesions by Inductive Heating
4008721 Tape Electrode for
Transmitting Electrical Signals Through the Skin
4067342 Tape Electrode
4205665 Gravity Lumbar
Reduction Method
D334623 Traction Unit for
Removing Loading from the Back
4269179
Orthopedic Gravity
Traction Brace
4290422 Surgical Headlight
System
4422452 Gravity Traction Vest
4569340 Gravity Traction Vest
4743260 Method for a Flexible
Stabilization System for a Vertebral Column
5033459 Gravity Traction
Device with a Base Support and Method
5105803 Gravity Traction
Device with a Base Support
5195949 Traction Device
5282863 Flexible Stabilization
System for a Vertebral Column
Patents Pending, Improved Flexible Stabilization System for Spine
Stabilization, Neurostimulation for Appetite Suppression,
Non-Intravascular Blood Monitoring System.
Honors and Licensure:
2003 Marquis Who's Who in Finance and Industry
2002
Marquis Who's Who in Health Care
2002-07
(Editions) Americas Top
Surgeons, Consumers Research Council of America
1999 Marquis
Who's Who Millennium Edition
1990 Marquis Who's Who in the
World
1985 Marquis Who's Who in
America
1976 Marquis Who's Who in the
Midwest
1974 Minnesota Medical
Licensure
1972 Fellow, American College
of Surgeons
1969 Alaska Medical Licensure
(Hon.)
1969 Pennsylvania Medical
Licensure
1963 Maryland Medical
Licensure
1962 Connecticut Medical
Licensure
1962
Diplomate, National Board
of Medical Examiners
1960 Cor et Manus Society
1956 Alpha Epsilon Delta
Society
Organizational
Memberships:
American Association of
Neurological Surgeons
American Back Society
American Board of Spine
Surgery
American College of Forensic
Examiners
American College of Spine
Surgery
American College of Surgeons
Congress of Neurological
Surgeons
Hennepin County Medical
Society
International Society of
Police Surgeons
International Society for
Minimal Intervention in Spinal Surgery
International Society for the
Study of the Lumbar Spine
International Spinal Injection
society
Johns Hopkins Medical and
Surgical Association
Minnesota State Medical
society
North American Spine society
Yale Surgical Society
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