|
|---|
Medical Degree
Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA
Residency
Orthopaedic Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
Fellowship
Spine Surgery, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
UNC Hospitals Spine Center and Neurosurgery Clinic
1350 Raleigh Road
Second Floor
Chapel Hill, NC 27517
- Adult spinal deformity
- Machine learning
- Predictive analytics
-
Phelps BM, Gupta MC. A Clinical Practice Review of Optimizing the Approach for Correction of Thoracolumbar Deformity – When and How to Perform Anterior Releases and Fusion. AME Surg J 2025; 5:17
-
Phelps BM, Ramey WL, Hurlbert RJ. Sacral/Pelvic Fixation – New Tools and Techniques. Neurosurg Clin N Am. 2025 Jan;36(1):41-51. PMID: 39542548
-
Hirase T, Shin C, Ling J, Phelps BM, Haghshenas V, Saifi C, Hanson D. S2 Alar-Iliac Screw versus Traditional Iliac Screw for Spinopelvic Fixation: A Systematic Review of Comparative Biomechanical Studies. Spine Deformity. 2022 Nov;10(6):1279-1288. PMID: 35763199
- Best Paper Award 2024 North American Spine Society Annual Meeting – Phelps BM, Nguyen AQ, Vemu S, Bondar K, Mehdi SK, Hirase T, Saifi C. AJCC Score and Hormone Receptor Status Predicts One, Two, and Five Year Mortality Rates in Patients that Undergo Spine Surgery for Metastatic Breast Cancer to the Spine
- Best Paper Award 2023 North American Spine Society Annual Meeting – Mehdi S, Phelps BM, Bondar K, Saifi C. Poverty and insurance status are associated with lower survival rates in patients with breast cancer metastatic to the spine: a propensity matching analysis of 854 patients
- First Place, 8th Annual Hugh S. Tullos, MD Resident & Fellow Research Symposium (2023)
- AOA Resident Leader, 2023 C. McCollister Evarts Resident Leadership Forum (2023)
- Fellow, Constance M. and Byron F. Dyer Fellowship, Houston Methodist Hospital (2023)
- Fellow, Physician-Scientist Institutional Award, Burroughs Wellcome Fund (2022)
- Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society (2018-present)
- Arnold P. Gold Humanism in Medicine Honor Society (2018-present)
Appointments
Phone: (984) 974-4200
Referral Fax: (919) 966-7956
