Dr. Nolan Wessell

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Becker’s Healthcare -- Spine and Orthopedic Podcast · Dr. Nolan Wessell, Assistant Professor and Well-being Co-Director, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Division of Spine Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine · 8 Dec 2025 podcast

But when you walk through the exhibit floor, it's really clear to me that integration of robotics and artificial intelligence and patient-specific surgical plans is where spine surgery is headed.

We've seen robotics in general surgery for quite a while now.

We've all heard about the DaVinci robot that's probably been around for 15-20 years.

robotics and spine care is somewhat in its infancy.

But when you start to integrate that with preoperative planning and using large scale database learning and artificial intelligence algorithms to help plan a patient specific surgery or even custom 3D printed patient specific implants,

it really begins to change the game in terms of what we can offer patients.

And right now, the costs for some of those technologies are quite high.

But as development progresses, like anything else, we expect those costs to come down.

And hopefully that translates to better value and better outcomes for patients.

Yeah, I think cost is at the forefront of everything we do in healthcare right now.

And we can certainly get into some of those issues later in our conversation.

But I work fortunately at a large academic institution.

And when it comes to development of these new technologies, I really look at the larger centers as the ones that need to lead the charge.

Being a big academic center, we have a robust portfolio of research projects that are ongoing.

We have an easier ability to get large scale federal and regional grant funding.

And we need to be smart about how we use that money.

And I hope that a portion of it is invested in advancing these types of technologies because

Ultimately, I think that's gonna benefit not just orthopedic patients, but the broader healthcare system as a whole, right?

If we have technologies that allow us to do more or a broader spectrum of surgeries in a more ambulatory setting with smaller incisions and reduced recovery, that's gonna change the game in terms of orthopedic care.

Yeah, I think the one thing that we can probably be certain of is that it's constantly going to change.

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