Clinical Focus

• Spinal Diseases
• Orthopaedic Surgery

Administrative Appointments

• Chief, Spinal Surgery Division (2004 - present)
• Medical Director, Service Quality, Stanford Univeristy Hospital and Clinics (2009 - present)
• Director, Orthopaedic Spine Center at Stanford, Stanford Hospital and Clinics (1990 - present)
• Director, Medical Student Education; Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine (1990 - present)
• Spine Consultant for Varsity and NCAA Teams, Stanford University (1993 - present)

Honors and Awards

• Various awards and Commendations, U.S. Army (to present)
• Leon Wiltse Award, North American Spine Society (2008)
• Volvo Clinical Research Award, International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (2000)
• Clinical Research Award, International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (2009 and 2006)
• Excellence in Teaching Award, Stanford University School of Medicine (1996, 1997, 2004)

Professional Education

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Medicine
• Orthopedic Surgery

Community & International Work

• Editor in Chief, The Spine Journal, Stanford and NASS 
• VA Neck Pain and Back Pain Guidelines 
• Command Surgeon, 351 Civil Affairs Command 
• Low Back Pain Guidelines Panel 
• Neck Pain Task Force, Toronto, Canada 

Industry Relationships

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Current Research Interests

Dr. Carragee's research interests lie in outcomes assessment of surgical and rehabilitative treatment for cervical and lumbar intervertebral disk herniation; diagnosis and treatment of spine infections, instrumentation of the degenerative spine and spinal deformities and low back pain syndromes, pain and pain management.

Clinical Trials

• Characterizing Knee Pain and Response to Surgery Using Local Biomarkers Recruiting

Publications

• The vertebroplasty affair: the mysterious case of the disappearing effect size. Carragee EJ, Spine J. 2010; 10 (3): 191-2
• Is the self-reported history accurate in patients with persistent axial pain after a motor vehicle accident? Don AS, Carragee EJ. Spine J. 2009 Jan-Feb; 9 (1): 4-12
• 2009 ISSLS Prize Winner: Does discography cause accelerated progression of degeneration changes in the lumbar disc: a ten-year matched cohort study. Carragee EJ, Don AS, Hurwitz EL, Cuellar JM, Carrino J, Herzog R. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2009; 34 (21): 2338-45
• Continuing debate: validity and utility of magnetic resonance imaging of the upper cervical spine after whiplash exposure. Carragee EJ, Spine J. 2009; 9 (9): 778-9
• Epidural interferon gamma-immunoreactivity: a biomarker for lumbar nerve root irritation. Scuderi GJ, Cuellar JM, Cuellar VG, Yeomans DC, Carragee EJ, Angst MS. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2009; 34 (21): 2311-7