Parviz Kambin

Parviz Kambin
Born 1931
Nationality American

Medical career

Profession Orthopaedic surgeon
Institutions Drexel University
Specialism Minimally invasive spinal surgery

Parviz Kambin (born 1931) is an American medical doctor and orthopaedic surgeon. He is a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and has established an Endowed Chair of Spinal Surgery Research at Drexel University College of Medicine. He has published more than 55 articles in peer-reviewed journals, edited two textbooks and has contributed chapters in spinal surgery textbooks. He has lectured worldwide in the field of minimally invasive spinal surgery. His research and development in this specialty began in 1970.

Biography

Kambin was born in Tehran, Iran on May 21, 1931. He received his doctorate degree in medicine from Tehran University Faculty of Medicine in 1956. He continued his post-graduate training as an intern at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center. He then moved on to do a four-year residency at New Jersey Orthopaedic Hospital and New York University, and received his American Board Certification in Orthopaedic Surgery in 1965.[1]

Kambin is a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and has an Endowed Chair of Spinal Surgery at Drexel University, College of Medicine. He has been recognized by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and his work in part has been exhibited in the Mutter Museum. Together with several colleagues, he assisted in the establishment of the International Society for Minimal Intervention in Spinal Surgery in 1988 and was elected the first president of the society in 1990. He coined the term "Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery" and is credited in the Dorland's Medical Dictionary for describing the Kambin Triangular Working Zone.[2]

Research and development

Parviz Kambin's contributions to the field of spinal surgery have been recognized both in the medical circle[3][4][5][6] and the Surgical industry.[7][8] Kambin's early experimental work, with the debulking of the nuclear mass began in 1970. By utilising a series of cadaveric studies at the University of Pennsylvania and The Graduate Hospital, Philadelphia, he developed instruments and described the anatomy and the path of the lateral access to the spinal canal for access and removal of the herniated disc fragments.

Demonstration of Kambin triangular working zone on a spine model

He subsequently began his experimental work on the efficacy of the postero-lateral access to the herniated lumbar discs. Kambin's preliminary study of nine patients who underwent lateral discectomy was published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research in April 1983, and is considered to be the first publication on this subject in western literature.[9][10] He is also credited with 34 US and European patents in the field of minimally invasive spinal surgery.[11]

Awards

International activities

During a meeting with Adam Schreiber from Switzerland, Mario Brock from the University of Berlin and J.A.N. Shepperd from the UK, a desire to establish an international society dedicated to the research and teaching of the emerging technology was expressed. Dr. Hijikata from Toden Hospital, Japan, had described the removal of nuclear tissue from the intervertebral disc (nucleotomy) for the treatment of herniated discs in 1975.[16] Professor Schreiber adopted the above technique and utilized this procedure in his practice.[17] Kambin resisted the term of nucleotomy in the title of the newly formed society. He believed that the dislodged herniated disc fragments should be accessed and removed. Kambin was elected the first President of the newly organized society. He coined the term Minimal Intervention in Spinal Surgery by registering the Society as a nonprofit organization dedicated to education and research in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The name of International Society for Minimal Intervention in Spinal Surgery (ISMISS) was established on April 10, 1990.[18] His first textbook, entitled Arthroscopic Microdiscectomy, Minimal Intervention in Spinal Surgery, was published in 1991. The Society was formed under the auspices of the Société Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopédique et de Traumatologie (International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology).

Teaching

Parviz Kambin remained an active member of The Graduate Hospital, where he served his patients, taught and did research for more than 30 years. Subsequently, he accepted a fulltime Academic position at the Drexel University College of Medicine where he continued with his research and patient care.[19] He has also contributed to The Parviz Kambin Lectureship at the Philadelphia Orthopaedic Society, where annually renowned spine surgeons present their work to the Philadelphia orthopaedic community. Norman Johanson, Chairman of Orthopaedic Surgery at Drexel, has commented, "Dr. Kambin’s trailblazing work in minimally invasive spine surgery serves as an inspiration to me, the faculty, and the orthopaedic residents here."[20]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ "Find a Board Certified Orthopaedic Surgeon". The American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. The American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
  2. ↑ Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary. (32nd ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Saunders/Elsevier. 2012. p. 2094. ISBN 978-1-4160-6257-8.
  3. ↑ Philadelphia Medical Society 2006
  4. ↑ Royal College of Surgeons, USA “Lifetime Achievement Award”, December 2005
  5. ↑ American International University, Honorary PhD award, December 2005
  6. ↑ World Congress of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery & Techniques "Lifetime Achievement Award", June 2008
  7. ↑ Joimax(R) for the first time awards the Parviz Kambin prize in cooperation with SMISS in the frame of the first US TESSYS(R) user meeting in Denver, Colorado. (April 29, 2011). PR Newswire Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/863915470?accountid=10559 (registration required)
  8. ↑ Stryker Spine"Lifetime Achievement Award" Naples, Florida, December 2000.
  9. ↑ Yeung, AT; Tsou, PM (April 1, 2002). "Posterolateral endoscopic excision for lumbar disc herniation: Surgical technique, outcome, and complications in 307 consecutive cases.". Spine 27 (7): 722–31. doi:10.1097/00007632-200204010-00009. PMID 11923665.
  10. ↑ Hoogland, Thomas; Schubert, Michael; Miklitz, Boris; Ramirez, Agnes (November 2006). "Transforaminal Posterolateral Endoscopic Discectomy With or Without the Combination of a Low-Dose Chymopapain: A Prospective Randomized Study in 280 Consecutive Cases". Spine 31 (24): E890–E897. doi:10.1097/01.brs.0000245955.22358.3a.
  11. ↑ "Parviz Kambin inventor". PatentBuddy. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
  12. ↑ Savitz, Martin. The Practice of Minimally Invasive Spinal Technique. AAMISS Press. p. 581.
  13. ↑ Savitz, Martin. The Practice of Minimally Invasive Spinal Technique. AAMISS Press. p. 581.
  14. ↑ Savitz, Martin. The Practice of Minimally Invasive Spinal Technique. AAMISS Press. p. 581.
  15. ↑ Savitz, Martin. The Practice of Minimally Invasive Spinal Technique. AAMISS Press. p. 581.
  16. ↑ Hijikata, S (January 1989). "Percutaneous nucleotomy. A new concept technique and 12 years' experience.". Clinical orthopaedics and related research (238): 9–23. doi:10.1097/00003086-198901000-00003. PMID 2910622.
  17. ↑ Schreiber, A; Suezawa, Y; Leu, H (January 1989). "Does percutaneous nucleotomy with discoscopy replace conventional discectomy? Eight years of experience and results in treatment of herniated lumbar disc.". Clinical orthopaedics and related research (238): 35–42. doi:10.1097/00003086-198901000-00005. PMID 2910617.
  18. ↑ "Home". ISMISS.
  19. ↑ "Introducing The Spine Center at MCP Hospital". MCP Hospital. InnerView. December 7, 1995.
  20. ↑ Lecture made by Dr. NA Johanson at the 100th Anniversary of The Philadelphia Orthopaedic Society, May 11, 2015.

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