Welcome

Tony Tannoury, MD
Chief of Spine Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston University
The Center for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

Back and neck pain are disabling ailments and can be major detriments to one’s quality of life. Fortunately, it has been shown that three out of four patients who suffer from back or neck pain do improve without surgery within the first three months of the issue. However, for those patients who do not improve there is often a tendency to delay proper care for a number of reasons. One reason I have found for this delay is the presumed stigma surrounding back and neck surgery.

Today there is a significantly greater understanding of spine-related conditions due to specialized training and new technologies that have been recently developed in the industry. Spine surgery has also evolved considerably over the past few years as a result of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) treatment options. The goal of MIS is to create a path to fix the patient’s problem with the least amount of damage to the patient’s normal structure.

As an MIS spine surgeon, I always make the following promises to my patients:

• I will meet with you and evaluate you as a suffering human being who deserves pain relief and better quality of life
• I will give you the time you deserve during your visit and ensure that I full explain your problem and options in a clear manner
• I will treat you by using the most novel principles and technologies, though not as an experiment
• I will not offer you any treatment that I would not, or have not, used on my immediate family members and closest friends

I look forward to seeing you and putting you on the path to meaningful recovery.

Sincerely,
Dr. Tony Tannoury

Meet The Surgeon

Dr. Tannoury is Chief of Spine Surgery at Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine in Boston, MA. He is internationally recognized for developing and patenting Minimal Invasive (MIS) techniques and implants that are widely used worldwide. He is the inventor of Johnson & Johnson's MIS Spine Portfolio that includes award winning copyrighted systems on the market today, including:

Dr. Tannoury has a very reputable and highly attended surgeons' visitation program through which he has hosted and proctored more than 375 surgeons and professors from major universities and medical centers in the USA and around the world. Dr Tannoury has spent a significant amount of time educating and teaching surgeons, residents and medical students from Brazil, China, the Middle East, and all over Europe. Dr. Tannoury is considered to be an international expert in diagnosing and treating complex spinal deformities. As a result of preservation of spinal muscles and normal structures, Dr Tannoury's Minimally Invasive techniques have been very successful in treating spinal injuries as well as degenerative conditions. Faster recovery, shorter hospital stay, less postoperative pain and better long term results has kept Dr. Tannoury very involved with injured workers, as well as patients who are unwilling or unable to undergo classic open surgeries. Hence Dr. Tannoury's interest in working closely with Occupational Health Professionals and major employers from all over New England to develop successful and cost saving protocols and business practices to get the employees back to work more quickly and in manner that respects the injured worker. Dr. Tannoury is also the founder of S.P.I.N.E, a non-profit international organization that educates and trains hundreds of surgeons annually in all aspects of musculoskeletal orthopedic and neurosurgical disorders. Dr. Tannoury is a devoted husband and father and nothing is more important to him than his wife Viviane and their three kids, Jasmine, Tamara and Mark. In his free time, he likes to ski, play tennis and socially network.