John Ratliff

Clinical Focus

• Neurological Surgery

Honors and Awards

• Robert Florin, MD Award, American Association of Neurological Surgeons (2010)
• Brandeis University Health Policy Leaders Program Scholarship, American College of Surgeons (2009)

Professional Education

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Neurosurgery

Current Research Interests

At present, I am working on a prospective measure to assess the risk of complications in spine surgery procedures. I am studying the impact of patient disease process, choice of operative approach, and patient pre-operative comorbidities on complication occurrence. The goal of this effort will be to develop a clinical tool that may be used in patient counseling.

Presently, a prospectively developed measure of comorbidities is being modeled to ICD-9 nomencature for use in the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database.

My longer term research goals are to develop clearer means of assessing outcomes in spine surgery procedures and developing patient-centered outcomes assessments that may be scalable for larger populations.

Publications

• Patient comorbidity score predicting the incidence of perioperative complications: assessing the impact of comorbidities on complications in spine surgery. Campbell PG, Yadla S, Nasser R, Malone J, Maltenfort MG, Ratliff JK. J Neurosurg Spine. 2012; 16 (1): 37-43
• The incidence of pulmonary embolism (PE) after spinal fusions. Senders ZJ, Zussman BM, Maltenfort MG, Sharan AD, Ratliff JK, Harrop JS. Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2012
• The influence of medical school and residency training program upon choice of an academic career and academic productivity among otolaryngology faculty in the United States of America: Our experience of 1433 academic otolaryngologists. Leng T, Jaben KA, Zheng L, Yang J, Paulus YM, Moshfeghi AA, Maltenfort MG, Campbell PG, Ratliff JK, Moshfeghi DM. Clin Otolaryngol. 2012; 37 (1): 58-62
• Comparison of ICD-9-based, retrospective, and prospective assessments of perioperative complications: assessment of accuracy in reporting. Campbell PG, Malone J, Yadla S, Chitale R, Nasser R, Maltenfort MG, Vaccaro A, Ratliff JK. J Neurosurg Spine. 2011; 14 (1): 16-22
• Complications related to instrumentation in spine surgery: a prospective analysis. Campbell PG, Yadla S, Malone J, Maltenfort MG, Harrop JS, Sharan AD, Ratliff JK. Neurosurg Focus. 2011; 31 (4): E10