Benjamin Daniel Elder MD PhD
Neurosurgical Spine Surgery
Professor of Neurosurgery
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200 1st Street SWRochester, MN 55905
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Summary
- Dr. Benjamin Elder is a Professor of Neurosurgery in Rochester, MN and is affiliated with Mayo Clinic Hospital - Rochester. He received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine and his residency and complex spine surgery fellowship at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and has been in practice 7 years. He is experienced in complex spine surgery and adult scoliosis and spinal deformity surgery, and neurosurgery.
Education & Training
Johns Hopkins UniversityResidency, Neurological Surgery, 2010 - 2017- Johns Hopkins UniversityFellowship, Neurosurgical Spine Surgery, 2016
Baylor College of MedicineClass of 2010
Certifications & Licensure
FL State Medical License 2017 - 2028
AZ State Medical License 2017 - 2027
WI State Medical License 2017 - 2027
MN State Medical License 2017 - 2026
MD State Medical License 2014 - 2018
American Board of Neurological Surgery Neurological Surgery
Clinical Trials
- Efficacy in iNPH Shunting (PENS) Trial Start of enrollment: 2022 May 18
- SI Joint Stabilization in Long Fusion to the Pelvis Start of enrollment: 2020 May 20
- Adherus™ Dural Sealant in Spinal Procedures Start of enrollment: 2020 Nov 19
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Segmental asymmetry and multiplanar motion of the lumbar spine: Cadaveric insights into spinal pathologies.Asghar Rezaei, Alexander Hooke, Babak Dashtdar, Areonna Schreiber, Abdelrahman M Hamouda
Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials. 2026-01-01 - Risk factors for subsidence and loss of segmental lordosis segmental lordosisfollowing 1-3-level anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion for degenerative disease: A ti...Zach Pennington, Derrick Obiri-Yeboah, Abdelrahman Hamouda, Nikita Lakomkin, William E Krauss
Journal of Clinical Neuroscience. 2025-12-23 - Relative influence of paraspinal muscularity and underlying bone quality on proximal junctional kyphosis and failure mode in patients undergoing thoracolumbar instrume...Zach Pennington, Anthony L Mikula, Abdelrahman Hamouda, Derrick Obiri-Yeboah, Michael L Martini
Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery. 2025-12-15
Journal Articles
- Original Article Use of Recombinant Human Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2 at the C1-2 Lateral Articulation Without Posterior Structural Bone Graft in Posterior Atlantoaxi...Benjamin D Elder, Nicholas Theodore, Yuanxuan Xia, Ali Bydon, Risheng Xu, Daniel M Sciubba, Timothy F Witham, Wataru Ishida, Ziya L Gokaslan, ScienceDirect
Press Mentions
Brain Lesions & Aging: What Doctors Want You to KnowJune 20th, 2025- The Most Underutilized Spine BiologicsSeptember 12th, 2024
Spine Surgery Tames Pain, Puts School Bus Driver Back Behind the WheelJuly 26th, 2019
Grant Support
- Metastatic Spine Tumors: Minimally Invasive Fracture Risk Analysis and TreatmentNational Institute of HealthPresent
- Injectable and Moldable Composite Bone Scaffolds for Spinal FusionNational Institute of HealthPresent
- Toward tissue engineering of facet cartilageNational Institute of HealthPresent
Professional Memberships
- Member
- Member
- Fellow
- Scoliosis Research SocietyMember
- North American Spine SocietyMember
Industry Relationships
- Consultant, SI Bone
- Consultant, Johnson&Johnson, Depuy Synthes
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