Esteban Cuartas, M.D.
After graduating from Dartmouth College with high honors in Cell and Molecular Biology, Dr. Cuartas returned home to attend a prestigious 6-year medical school in South America. He then went on to complete a general surgery internship at the Yale School of Medicine. He finished his residency in Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Miami. Finally, before joining Orthopedics & Sports Medicine., Dr. Cuartas completed a Fellowship in Spinal Surgery at the New York Spine Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan.
Dr. Cuartas has been involved extensively in Orthopedic research. He completed a two-year NIH-funded Research Fellowship in Osteoporosis while at the Yale School of Medicine. His research unraveled some of the cell signals that cause osteoporosis and was published in several scientific journals. His studies also examined the interaction of osteoporosis medications and bone injuries.
Dr. Cuartas specializes in both surgical and non-surgical care of the spine, and acute as well as chronic disorders. This includes the cervical, thoracic and lumbar regions. His interests also include cervical disc herniations, lumbar stenosis and spondylolisthesis, as well as teenage and adult scoliosis. He has presented papers/posters in Vienna, Miami, New York, Las Vegas and San Francisco in these areas. His most recent article on the treatment of Scoliosis was published in the Journal of the American Orthopaedic Society.
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