Dr. Shaleen Vira

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Becker’s Healthcare -- Spine and Orthopedic Podcast · Spine Surgery Growth, Robotics, and Building Anti Fragile Systems with Dr. Shaleen Vira · 19 Feb 2026 podcast

We have people in our faculty who train at all the best places around the country and who want to be in a very exciting part of the country, Phoenix and Scottsdale.

in the surrounding areas is a great place for people to live, raise families, and stuff like that.

So there's been no shortage of people who've been interested.

And so we've been forming a team that includes people with different skill sets.

So we have people who are really good at minimally invasive type of surgery.

We have different people who are really good at intradural surgery, spinal cord surgery.

And then we have different people who are really traditional and deformity trained like myself.

And so really, just as a football team or an NBA basketball team is formed, we try to recruit all-stars who touch the different areas of spine and then comprise and then come up with a great overall team with expertise in different fields.

And that same thing goes to the non-operative side as well.

Yeah, I think the very first question is,

that either administrators and certain leaders have to ask themselves is that does these tools solve a problem that we truly have at the volume we have um one of the things i learned from my training at cleveland clinic was that whenever evaluating a new technology the first thing to ask is that is this solving a problem that that i had in my practice you know and that just that scales to not just the individual surgeon but the institution as well you know a lot of times

the clinical benefit is questionable beyond the marketing optics.

I had the pleasure of going to business school as well, and so we learned a lot about capital allocation and have a whole background in finance prior during my college days and whatnot.

And so looking at the return on investment becomes very interesting when you go beyond the marketing aspects

that gets highlighted in magazines or platforms like Becker's and looking at what does it change in terms of reliability, what does it change in terms of training, does it build resilience in the system.

So I have recently started a sub-stack, basically a blog on business strategy and spine surgery.

I encourage readers to look at it and recently wrote an article about robotics

and where I introduced the concept of surgical fragility.

So just as financial fragility is a well-established topic in the economic space in terms of bank fragility and capital allocation in that world, what I have a concern of in robotics is that, is it de-skilling surgeons?

And is it creating surgical fragility in a sense that

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