EugeneJohnCarrageeMD

Orthopaedic Surgery • Palo Alto, CA

Orthopedic Spine Surgery

Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center

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Office
900 Blake Wilbur Dr
First Floor Mc 5311
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Phone+1 650-725-6797

Fax+1 650-723-9805
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Education & Training

Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford UniversityResidency, Orthopaedic Surgery, 1984 - 1989
Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford UniversityResidency, Internal Medicine, 1982 - 1984
Stanford University School of MedicineClass of 1982

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 1984 - 2025
FL State Medical License 2015 - 2022

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2008-2014
CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2011-2013
Women's Health Castle Connolly, 2008
Super Doctor SuperDoctors.com
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Patient-level patterns in daily prescribed opioid dosage in single level lumbar fusion are associated with postoperative opioid dosage and adverse events: a retrospect...
Jayme C B Koltsov, Serena S Hu, Tanmaya D Sambare, John P Kleimeyer, Todd F Alamin, Kirkham B Wood, Eugene J Carragee> ;The Spine Journal. 2024 Mar 21
Moral Injury: How It Affects Us and Tools to Combat It.
Connor Arquette, Valerie Peicher, Antonette Ajayi, Dora Alvarez, Alice Mao, Tram Nguyen, Anthony Sawyer, Connie Martin Sears, Eugene J Carragee, Baraka Floyd, Bernadet...> ;Mededportal. 2023 Jan 1
The lost stethoscope
Eugene J. Carragee> ;North American Spine Society Journal. 2021 Jun 1
2 citations
Invasive Treatments for Low Back Disorders.
Kurt T. Hegmann, Russell Travis, Gunnar Andersson, Roger M. Belcourt, Eugene J. Carragee, Marjorie Eskay-Auerbach, Jill Galper, Michael Goertz, Scott Haldeman, Paul D....> ;Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2021 Apr 1
10 citations
Non-Invasive and Minimally Invasive Management of Low Back Disorders.
Kurt T. Hegmann, Russell Travis, Gunnar Andersson, Roger M. Belcourt, Eugene J. Carragee, Ronald Donelson, Marjorie Eskay-Auerbach, Jill Galper, Michael Goertz, Scott ...> ;Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2020 Mar 1
8 citations
Ribosomal PCR assay of excised intervertebral discs from patients undergoing single-level primary lumbar microdiscectomy.
Todd Alamin, Marcus Munoz, Alicia Zagel, Agnes Ith, Eugene J. Carragee, Ivan Cheng, Gaetano J. Scuderi, Indre Budvytiene, Niaz Banei> ;European Spine Journal. 2017 May 31
Reply to letters to the editor regarding lumbar provocative discography.
Eugene J. Carragee, Michael P. Stauff> ;The Spine Journal. 2017 Apr 1
Change of command.
Eugene J. Carragee> ;The Spine Journal. 2016 Dec 1
23 citations
Effect of an Annular Closure Device (Barricaid) on Same-Level Recurrent Disk Herniation and Disk Height Loss After Primary Lumbar Discectomy: Two-year Results of a Mul...
Scott L Parker, Gordan Grahovac, Duje Vukas, Milorad Vilendecic, Darko Ledic, Matthew J McGirt, Eugene J Carragee> ;Clinical Spine Surgery. 2016 Dec 1
55 citations
Surgical Versus Nonsurgical Treatment for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis.
Fabio Zaina, Christy Tomkins-Lane, Eugene J. Carragee, Stefano Negrini> ;Spine. 2016 Jul 15
78 citations
Research design considerations for single-dose analgesic clinical trials in acute pain: IMMPACT recommendations
Stephen A. Cooper, Paul J. Desjardins, Dennis C. Turk, Robert H. Dworkin, Nathaniel P. Katz, Henrik Kehlet, Jane C. Ballantyne, Laurie B. Burke, Eugene J. Carragee, Pe...> ;Pain. 2016 Feb 1
155 citations
Surgical versus non-surgical treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis
Fabio Zaina, Christy Tomkins-Lane, Eugene J. Carragee, Stefano Negrini> ;The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2016 Jan 29
From Anzac to Afghanistan: have 100 years taught us nothing about the devastation of war?
Eugene J. Carragee> ;The Spine Journal. 2015 Dec 1
56 citations
Novel diagnostic and prognostic methods for disc degeneration and low back pain
Dino Samartzis, Ari Borthakur, Inna Belfer, Cora Bow, Jeffrey C. Lotz, Hai-Qiang Wang, Kenneth M.C. Cheung, Eugene J. Carragee, Jaro Karppinen> ;The Spine Journal. 2015 Sep 1
23 citations
Report of the NIH Task Force on Research Standards for Chronic Low Back Pain.
Richard A Deyo, Samuel F Dworkin, Dagmar Amtmann, Gunnar Andersson, David Borenstein, Eugene Carragee, John Carrino, Roger Chou, Karon Cook, Anthony DeLitto, Christine...> ;International Journal of Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork. 2015 Sep 1
48 citations
Does provocative discography cause clinically important injury to the lumbar intervertebral disc? A 10-year matched cohort study.
Jason M. Cuellar, Michael P. Stauff, Richard J. Herzog, John A. Carrino, Geoffrey A. Baker, Eugene J. Carragee> ;The Spine Journal. 2011 Oct 1
76 citations
Oral Steroids for Acute Radiculopathy Due to a Herniated Lumbar Disk: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Harley Goldberg, William Firtch, Mark Tyburski, Alice Pressman, Lynn Ackerson, Luisa Hamilton, Wayne S. Smith, Ryan Carver, Annu Maratukulam, Lawrence A. Won, Eugene J...> ;JAMA. 2015 May 19
42 citations
Report of the NIH Task Force on research standards for chronic low back pain.
Richard A Deyo, Samuel F Dworkin, Dagmar Amtmann, Gunnar Andersson, David Borenstein, Eugene Carragee, John Carrino, Roger Chou, Karon Cook, Anthony Delitto, Christine...> ;Physical Therapy. 2015 Feb 1
1 citations
Clearing the cervical spine in Plato's cave.
Andrew J. Schoenfeld, Eugene J. Carragee> ;The Spine Journal. 2014 Nov 1
51 citations
Focus article: report of the NIH Task Force on Research Standards for Chronic Low Back Pain.
Richard A. Deyo, Samuel F. Dworkin, Dagmar Amtmann, Gunnar Andersson, David G. Borenstein, Eugene J. Carragee, John A. Carrino, Roger Chou, Karon F. Cook, Anthony Deli...> ;European Spine Journal. 2014 Sep 12
27 citations
Report of the National Institutes of Health Task Force on Research Standards for Chronic Low Back Pain
Richard A. Deyo, Samuel F. Dworkin, Dagmar Amtmann, Gunnar Andersson, David G. Borenstein, Eugene J. Carragee, John A. Carrino, Roger Chou, Karon F. Cook, Anthony Deli...> ;Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics. 2014 Sep 1
65 citations
Report of the NIH Task Force on research standards for chronic low back pain.
Richard A. Deyo, Samuel F. Dworkin, Dagmar Amtmann, Gunnar Andersson, David G. Borenstein, Eugene J. Carragee, John A. Carrino, Roger Chou, Karon F. Cook, Anthony Deli...> ;Pain Medicine. 2014 Aug 1
33 citations
Focus article report of the NIH task force on research standards for chronic low back pain
Richard A. Deyo, Samuel F. Dworkin, Dagmar Amtmann, Gunnar Andersson, David G. Borenstein, Eugene J. Carragee, John A. Carrino, Roger Chou, Karon F. Cook, Anthony Deli...> ;The Clinical Journal of Pain. 2014 Aug 1
28 citations
Report of the NIH Task Force on Research Standards for Chronic Low Back Pain.
Richard A Deyo, Samuel F Dworkin, Dagmar Amtmann, Gunnar Andersson, David Borenstein, Eugene Carragee, John A Carrino, John Carrino, Roger Chou, Karon Cook, Anthony De...> ;The Spine Journal. 2014 Aug 1
116 citations
Report of the NIH task force on research standards for chronic low back pain
Richard A. Deyo, Samuel F. Dworkin, Dagmar Amtmann, Gunnar Andersson, David G. Borenstein, Eugene J. Carragee, John A. Carrino, Roger Chou, Karon F. Cook, Anthony Deli...> ;Spine. 2014 Jun 15
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Lectures

7th Annual University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Spine Symposium
University of California, San Francisco, California - 6/1/2012

Press Mentions

At Stanford Health Care – ValleyCare, Future of Healing Is High-TechOctober 4th, 2021
8 Things for Spine Surgeons to Know for Thursday – March 8, 2018 FeaturedMarch 8th, 2018
Dr. Christopher Bono to Be 4th Editor in Chief of the Spine Journal — 6 Highlights FeaturedMarch 6th, 2018
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Hospital Affiliations

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital StanfordPalo Alto, California
Stanford Health CarePalo Alto, California