Alan H. Daniels, MD

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Becker’s Healthcare -- Spine and Orthopedic Podcast · Private Practice, Academics, and the Future of Spine Surgery with Alan H. Daniels, MD · 30 Jan 2026 podcast

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, so I'm an orthopedic spine surgeon in Providence, Rhode Island at Brown University.

I did my training here and stayed on, and one of the main reasons was we have an organization called University Orthopedics, which is a private practice.

It's a large orthopedic practice with 70 surgeons that basically is a center that owns our own real estate.

We have ancillary services, and we have facilities all over the region, and it just has been a very rewarding way to practice in that I get to –

have a very fruitful, I'll say private practice while I also do a lot of academics, teach residents, fellows, and work very closely with the university.

So it's really a perfect mix for me.

Well,

you really nailed it on the head and that there are advantages to each.

And that's why it's so nice being in a private academic environment.

The advantages of private practice are that we have a lot of autonomy.

You know, whether it comes to simple things like hiring and firing staff or figuring out how to allocate funds or even funding research, when you're in private practice, there's less

administrative challenges and oversight.

And it allows people, especially entrepreneurial people or people with other interests, to be able to continue working forward in your private practice and build it in the way that you see fit.

So, you know, we all have people that are our bosses, whether it be my chair or the president of the organization.

But when you're in private practice, there tends to be more ability to, I'll say, form the practice you want to have, whether it being in the days of the week that you're seeing or operating, your travel schedule, your vacation schedule.

It's just a lot of freedom.

And that pairs nicely with the advantages of academics, which are to work with residents and fellows is really, I would say, the most rewarding thing that I do.

Teaching is a lot of fun.

It's invigorating to work with young people.

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