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Office
200 1st Street SW
Rochester, MN 55905- Is this information wrong?
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 - 2026
- AZ State Medical License 2017 - 2025
- WI State Medical License 2017 - 2025
- MN State Medical License 2017 - 2024
- 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
- Bone Quality as Measured by Hounsfield Units More Accurately Predicts Proximal Junctional Kyphosis than Vertebral Bone Quality Following Long-Segment Thoracolumbar Fus...Zach Pennington, Mahnoor Shafi, Abdelrahman Hamouda, Anthony L Mikula, Nikita Lakomkin, Michael Martini, Zachariah W Pinter, Mohamad Bydon, Michelle J Clarke, Brett A ...> ;World Neurosurgery. 2024 Apr 6
- The effect of C2 screw type on perioperative outcomes and long-term stability after C2-T2 posterior cervical decompression and fusion.Hannah A Levy, Andrew Pumford, Sarah Padilla, Konstantinos Katsos, Zachariah W Pinter, Harold I Salmons, Sarah Townsley, Michelle Clarke, Mohamad Bydon, Jeremy L Fogel...> ;European Spine Journal. 2024 Apr 2
- Decompression Alone Versus Interspinous/Interlaminar Device Placement for Degenerative Lumbar Pathologies: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Pennington, Z., Nikita Lakomkin, Anthony L Mikula, Aladine A Elsamadicy, Jeremy L Fogelson, Andrew J Grossbach, Benjamin D Elder, Zach Pennington, Maria Astudillo Potes> ;World Neurosurgery. 2024 Mar 19
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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
- Spine Surgery Tames Pain, Puts School Bus Driver Back Behind the WheelJuly 26th, 2019
- Back to Pursuing Her Passions After Spine SurgeryNovember 5th, 2018
- Two Neurosurgeries Drive Dramatic RecoverySeptember 26th, 2018
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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
- Lumbar Spine Research SocietyMember
Hospital Affiliations
- Mayo Clinic Hospital - RochesterRochester, Minnesota
Industry Relationships
- Consultant, SI Bone
- Consultant, Johnson&Johnson, Depuy Synthes
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