Dr. Erich G. Anderer, Chief of the Division of Neurosurgery and Surgical Director of Perioperative Services at NYU Langone Hospital–Brooklyn
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What is Dr. Erich Anderer’s background and expertise?
This is Carly Beam with the Becker Spine and Orthopedics Podcast, and I'm thrilled to be joined today by Dr. Eric Anderer, a neurosurgeon with NYU Langone Health. Dr. Anderer, thank you so much for being here today.
I appreciate you having me on.
So before we dive into our questions, could you just introduce yourself and tell us a bit about your background?
Sure. As mentioned, my name is Eric Anderer. I'm the chief of neurosurgery at NYU Langone Hospital, Brooklyn. Um, I'm also the, uh, the co-director of a perioperative services, um, sort of a title that used to be known as surgeon in chief. Um, so help run the ORS in Brooklyn. I was born in Japan, grew up in New York, been in Brooklyn for the past 20 some odd years. So it really was sort of an honor when I was asked to sort of head up the neurosurgery effort in Brooklyn at the former Lutheran Medical Center. So I've been there since the NYU merger in 2016, and it's been almost 10 great years there.
That's great. And can you talk about just what are the top three trends that you're following in healthcare today?
Sure. I mean, there's so much to talk about. I mean, obviously the landscape is constantly changing, but I would say that the things that are sort of top of mind for me, number one would be sort of access to information. I mean, it's something that, you know, with the internet, with, you know, influencer culture, with, you know, sort of the inundation of information out there. from various sources. I think in a lot of ways, it's had a positive influence on the way that I think people experience healthcare. And what I mean by that is this sort of democratization of information, I think has been helpful for people to be informed, let's say, about their conditions and such. So I don't think it's ever going to replace going to a doctor.
And I think that really the best thing to do when you have questions about your health, about, you know, something going on with you and one of your loved ones is to maybe take some of that information that you digest from other sources and really sort of help, you know, sort of formulate questions, I think, that you can kind of go in with and be that much more informed when you go to your visit and get that much more out of your visit with your physicians. But I generally see it as a positive. I mean, clearly there's some negatives and just obviously the access to sort of voluminous amounts of information that is sometimes hard to to verify can be somewhat problematic. But I think on balance, it's been a good thing generally.
So that would be one. As a surgeon, it's hard not to talk about tech, right? And so that's another thing I think that I'm super excited about. robotics specifically in spine, but even sort of AI applications to sort of help us understand who are the right patients for surgery, how, you know, to predict, you know, how patients are going to do afterwards, where to send them to recover the best, you know, that's rehab facility, home, that kind of thing. You know, so I think it's really revolutionized the way that we look at surgery and who should be having surgery and how best to apply that. And then, you know, the other thing I think that's sort of out there, and this is, you know, at the government level, but all the way down to, you know, to sort of this, the information sources that I was talking to, talking about earlier, I think there's a lot of sort of focus on the root cause of disease.
And, you know, again, I mean, sort of a lot of chatter out there about, you know, about that. But I would say that a focus on that specifically, sort of divorced from, you know, all the other kind of, you know, either political, social, cultural things that can be sometimes associated with that discourse. I think that's also on balance a positive thing for patients and physicians, because I think that you know, the reality is who doesn't want to get at what is it that's making us sick and how do we stay healthy? And, you know, even as a surgeon, how do we keep people from having spine surgery?
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