John Ratliff
PROFESSOR
NEUROSURGERY
Canary Center at Stanford
United States of America
Biography
Dr. John Ratliff is Professor and Vice Chair of Neurosurgery, Departmental Quality Officer, and Co-Director of the Spine and Peripheral Nerve Surgery Division. As a spine surgeon, he treats a diverse array of degenerative spinal conditions. He has a specific research emphasis on quality improvement, decreasing complications in spine surgery, and improving surgical treatment of intramedullary spinal cord tumors.
Research Interest
quality improvement, decreasing complications in spine surgery, and improving surgical treatment of intramedullary spinal cord tumors.
Publications
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Ratliff JK, Balise R, Veeravagu A, Cole TS, Cheng I, Olshen RA, Tian L. Predicting occurrence of spine surgery complications using “big data†modeling of an administrative claims database. JBJS. 2016 May 18;98(10):824-34.
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Xu LW, Li A, Swinney C, Babu M, Veeravagu A, Wolfe SQ, Nahed BV, Ratliff JK. An assessment of data and methodology of online surgeon scorecards. Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine. 2017 Feb;26(2):235-42.
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Veeravagu A, Li A, Swinney C, Tian L, Moraff A, Azad TD, Cheng I, Alamin T, Hu SS, Anderson RL, Shuer L. Predicting complication risk in spine surgery: a prospective analysis of a novel risk assessment tool. Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine. 2017 Apr:1-1.
