Cédric Y. Barrey Prof., MD, PhD

Since 2014, Prof Cédric Y. Barrey has chaired the Department of Spine and Spinal Cord Surgery, Pierre Wertheimer Hospital, GHE, Hospices Civils de Lyon, and Claude Bernard University of Lyon 1, in Lyon, France. The Spine Team performed around 1000 Spine Surgeries each year, including traumas, degenerative spine, spinal tumors, deformity cases, cervical spine, and intra-dural spinal microsurgery.

Pr Barrey is particularly involved in the field of biomechanics, adult spinal deformities, sagittal balance disorders, and complex cervical spine surgeries.

His Research Activities dedicated to spine surgery involved: cervical posterior stabilization, spino-pelvic alignment and sagittal balance, biomechanics of the spine, lumbar dynamic devices, and cervical disc prosthesis. In 2008, he was a research fellow at Thomas Jefferson University, department of spine surgery, Pr AR Vaccaro, Philadelphia, USA, and performed a biomechanical PhD thesis on cervical disc prosthesis in 2011 in collaboration with the Laboratory of biomechanics, ENSAM-PARISTECH, Paris, with Professor W Skalli as program director.

In 2015, Pr C Barrey has been selected to participate to the CSRS Travelling Fellowship program.

Main Spine Society affiliations: SFCR (treasurer), AO-SPINE, SSE-Eurospine (program committee), EANS (annual spine hands-on course), and CSRS-E. Advisory Board of European Spine Journal.

Oral Lectures: 130 national (French congresses) and 100 international.

Papers: h-index 2020 = 17. 70 papers indexed Pubmed. Five papers cited > 100 and 1 paper cited > 500. 17 book chapters.