Positions

Associate Professor and Director of Spinal Neurosurgery

Neurosurgery
Director of Spine Surgery - Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

Addresses

Baylor Medicine Spine Center (Clinic)

7200 Cambridge
Suite 9B
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (713) 798-2225
Spine Center

Education

BA from University of Pennsylvania

05/2002 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States

Neuroscience and Classical Studies

MD from Tufts University School of Medicine

05/2007 - Boston, Massachusetts United States

Internship at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

06/2008 - Miami, Florida United States

Residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

06/2014 - Boston, Massachusetts United States

Clinical Fellowship at Barrow Neurological Institute

06/2015 - Phoenix, Arizona United States

Complex Spine Surgery

Certifications

Board Certified

American Board of Neurological Surgery

Texas Medical Board

Honors & Awards

Mayfield Basic Science Award, 2012 & 2015

AANS/CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves

Kadsen Neuroscience Award, 2007

Tufts University School of Medicine

Alpha Omega Alpha, 2007

AOA, Medical Honor Society

Harold Williams Research Fellowship Award

Tufts University School of Medicine

Early Career Faculty Award for Excellence in Patient Care

Baylor College of Medicine (05/2019)

SpineLine's Top 20 Under 40 - 2019

SpineLine debuted its 20 Under 40 campaign in 2018 to showcase NASS’ bright, young physicians under the age of 40. The SpineLine Committee selects the most deserving individuals based on accomplishments to date, community service and philosophy of care. https://www.spine.org/Publications/20-Under-40

North American Spine Society

Professional Interests

• Minimally invasive spine surgery
• Complex spine surgery
• Adult spinal deformity
• Scoliosis surgery
• Artificial disc replacement
• Spine tumor surgery
• Spinal surgery

Websites

Selected Publications

• Ropper AE, Ropper AH "Acute Spinal Cord Compression." New England Journal of Medicine. 2017 Apr 6;
• Ropper AE, Neal MT, Theodore N "Acute management of traumatic cervical spinal cord injury." Pract. Neurol.. 2015 Aug;15(4):266-72.
• Yu D, Thakor DK, Han I, Ropper AE, Haragopal H, Sidman RL, Zafonte R, Schachter SC, Teng YD "Alleviation of chronic pain following rat spinal cord compression injury with multimodal actions of huperzine A." Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2013 Feb 19;110(8):E746-55.
• Ropper AE, Cahill KS, Hanna JW, McCarthy EF, Gokaslan ZL, Chi JH "Primary vertebral tumors: A review of epidemiologic, histologic and imaging findings part I: Benign tumors." Neurosurgery. 2011 Dec;69(6):1171-80.

Memberships

Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS)

American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS)

North American Spine Society (NASS)

Joint Spine Section of the AANS/CNS

Executive Committee Member