Dr. Mauricio Avila

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Becker’s Healthcare -- Spine and Orthopedic Podcast · Building Bridges and Advancing Innovation in Spine Surgery with Dr. Mauricio Avila · 26 Feb 2026 podcast

Thank you, Carly, for having me.

Yeah, so as you say, Mauricio Avila, I'm currently an assistant professor at St.

Louis University and director of the sparring part of the Arbor Neurosurgery Program.

I've been here now for three years, did my residency at University of Arizona, then I did my fellowship in Seattle with Yann Chabon and Rod Escuyan, and then I came to St.

Louis to start my practice.

So I've been here for a couple of years.

yeah i mean i've been very very excited here in particular i think we've been able to achieve something that has always been in my mind is first creating a bridge between neurosurgery and ortho you know i think as we all evolve we've now come to understand that spine is a shared world and besides very few procedures we basically can do the same thing so my fellowship was ortho and neuro so then when i came here that's the first thing i did and and the growth has been similar right we're growing at different

And personally, I'm growing the endoscopic spine program, which I think has been very interesting for me because I was not exposed to that during Renzi's fellowship.

But it's one of the techniques that because I'm a big believer in minimally invasive surgery, it was very easy for me to understand the value of endoscopic spine.

What I did here is my ortho colleagues, they had basically a spine conference, a spine round.

So I asked if I could join them and then I started joining them.

And I think as surgeons, the way I show humility is start showing your cases, right?

So start showing my own cases, my successes and my maybe not as perfect cases.

And I think that showed them that I was willing to do that.

And that really helped get us all in the same room.

And then I'll tell you, it has helped tremendously to try to, especially as a much bigger group, basically two departments, go to some of our C-suite people and in the hospital and be like, hey, this is something we both want in terms of teams.

So that helps tremendously because now we have lines for communication.

I'll tell you for patient care, like when I'm on call, you know, if one of their patients comes in, you know, I'll take care of them and then just literally call them and be like, hey, the patient came in, this and that.

There's none of that like, oh, not my problem.

You figure it out type of thing, which also provides, I will say, more peace of mind and also some quality of life.

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