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Trudy Maurer is the Chief Executive Officer of the Spine Network of California.  She is able to facilitate an appointment with one of the above doctors within forty-eight hours.  Regardless of your state of residence, You may contact her by telephone at 1-888-673-4575 from California  or 1-415-673-4575 nationwide, by fax at 1-415-673-4582,  or by email at:

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Dr. Clive M. Segil
 
Curriculum Vitae
Orthopaedic Surgery and Scoliosis
8737 Beverly Boulevard, Suite 1001
Los Angeles, CA 90048


EDUCATION:

High School:
1956 Christian Brothers College, South Africa

University and Medical School:
1963 University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa,
M.B., B.Ch.

1967 Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, F.R.C.S.


CLINICAL TRAINING:

Internships:
1964 Johannesburg General Hospital, South Africa, Internal
Medicine and General Surgery

1974-1975 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, Repeat Internship

Residencies:
1965-1966 Johannesburg General Hospital, Rotation in General Surgery
1967 Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, General Surgery
1968-1970 Johannesburg General Hospital, Orthopaedic Surgery. The Johannesburg General Hospital is the teaching hospital of the University of the Witwatersrand

Fellowships:
1970 Prof. Sir John Charnley, C.B.E., D.Sc, F.R.C.S., Center for Hip Surgery, Wrightington, England
1971-1972 Toronto East General and Orthopaedic Hospital, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, with Dr. Edward Simmons in Spinal Disorders

General Practice:
1966 Locum tenems, Boksburg, South Africa, Occupational Medicine and General Practice

Private Orthopaedic Practice:
1975-Present Othopaedic Surgery at Present Address


HONORS & AWARDS:

1973 F.A.C.S., American College of Surgeons
1989 Carl Pearson Memorial Lecture, The Arthritis Foundation and Division of Rheumatology, University of California, Los Angeles., Invited to Give the Annual Memorial Lecture Honoring Dr. Carl Pearson, Professor of Rheumatology at University of California, Los Angeles
1990 Independent Medical Examiner, State of California, Department of Industrial Relations


LICENSURE:

1963 E.C.F.M.G., Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates, U.S.A.
1964 Medical Practitioner, South Africa
1967 Medical Practitioner, United Kingdom
1972 L.M.C.C., Medical Council of Canada
1974 F.L.E.X., Federation of Licensing Examination, U.S.A.
1974 License to Practice Medicine in the Sate of New Mexico
1974 License to Practice Medicine in the State of California


Board Certification:
1970 Orthopaedic Surgery Specialist, South Africa
1976 Board Certified Orthopaedic Surgeon, American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery


PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:

Academic Appointments:
1979 to Present University of Southern California School of Medicine, Assistant- Clinical Professor of Orthopaedics
1971-1972 University of Toronto School of Medicine, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Post-graduate Training Program
1971-1972 University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, Clinical
Demonstrator Musculoskeletal System
1968-1971 University of the Witwatersrand, Department of Physical Therapy, Lecturer and Examiner
1968-1971 University of the Witwatersrand, Department of General Surgery, Lecturer
1968-1971 Johannesburg General Hospital, Nursing College, Lecturer in Orthopaedic Surgery
1968-1971 Baragwanath Hospital, Nursing College, Lecturer Orthopaedic Surgery

Specific Teaching Responsibilities:
1988-1990 Clinical Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
1988 Surgical Advisory Committee, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
1975 to Present Medical Students, Graduate Students and Trainees, University of Southern California in Orthopaedic Surgery
1971-1972 Orthopaedic Residents, University of Toronto
1968-1974 University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, South Africa, Orthopaedic and General Surgery Residents, Medical and Physical Therapy Students

Hospital Staffs:
Attending Orthopaedic Surgeon at:
-Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles
-Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
-Midway Hospital, Los Angeles
-Westside Hospital, Los Angeles


SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS:

Local:

-Western Orthopaedic Association
-California Orthopaedic Association
-Los Angeles County Medical Association
-California Medical Association
-Southern California Rheumatism Society
-Cedars-Sinai Alumni Association
-USC General Alumni Association, Salerni Collegium, USC
School of Medicine
-California Society of Industrial Medicine and Surgery

National:

-American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery
-Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
-American Medical Association
-Arthritis Foundation
-Simmons Surgical Society
-American Medical Political Action Committee
-U.S. Medical Directory Service
-American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgeons
-Contemporary Orthopaedics, Surgery Opinion Panel
-Director of Medical Specialists

International:
-Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
-Member of the South African Dental Council
-World Medicine Association

Visiting Professor:
1970 -Poriah General Hospital, Tiberias, Israel
1986 -University of Louisville, Kentucky, Orthopaedics
1988 -University of Louisville, Kentucky, Orthopaedics


COURSES & MEETINGS:

Lectured at:
-School of Physical Therapy, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, 1/78
-Los Angeles New Hospital, Lecture on Scoliosis, Speaker on -----Recent Advances in the Management of Scoliosis, Los Angeles New Hospital, 4/21/78
-Lecture to Paramedics and Emergency Trauma Center Staff on Spinal Cord Injuries, 7/78
-Lecture on Scoliosis and Spinal Deformity, Northridge Hospital Foundation Medical Center, 7/78
-Lecture on Orthopaedic Management of Shoulder Problems to Physical Therapy Department, University of California, Los Angeles, 7/28/78
-Lecture to the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services Paramedic Training Section on Spinal Cord Injuries, 9/8/78
-Lecture on Orthopaedic problems in a Pediatric Office, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, 1/16/19
-Lecture on the Anatomy and Physiology of the Back, Workers Compensation Defense Forum Second Annual Seminar, 3/24/79
-Lecture to the American Lupus Society, Bonnie Bernard Dendiem Chapter, Torrance, California, 4/18/79
-Pediatric Ground Rounds, Management of Scoliosis, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 4/19/79
-The Effect of an Exercise Program on Cases of Mild Scoliosis, Research Project Approved by the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, 5/16/79
-Lecture to the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists, Southern California Chapter, A New Post-Spinal Fusion Orthosis, 10/10/79
-Lectures to the School of Physical Therapy, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles: Scoliosis, 4/25/79; Arthroplasty, 5/2/79; Special Surgical Procedures, 5/9/79; Internal Fixation Procedures, 5/16/79
-Lecture at Workers Compensation Defense Forum, 3/31/80
-Lecture on Scoliosis and Orthopaedic problems in Children and Adolescents at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, 3/4/80
-Lecture to IEA Medical Management Students, 4/23/80
-Speaker at Community Facts Forum, Arthritis Foundation, Southern California Chapter, 11/20/80
-Speaker on Sports Injuries, Especially in Females, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, 4/3/81
-Lecture to IEA Medical Management Students, 4/9/81
-Talk on Orthopaedics, Civil Liability Division Training Schedule, --Office of the City Attorney, 3/11/82
-IEA Medical Management Lecture, 3/12/82
-Lecture with Panel discussion at University of California, Los Angeles on Head and Neck Trauma, The Latest Information Perspectives on Patients with a Less than Optimal Recovery, Orthopaedic Aspects, 3/82
-Grand Rounds Pediatric Clinical Conference on Scoliosis at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 4/22/82
-Walking Straight and Tall, Selected Topics in Pediatrics at University of Southern California School of Medicine, Post-graduate Division, 12th Annual Review, 5/3-7/82
-Third Annual Clinical Symposium at Beverly Hills Medical Center, 5/9/82
-Guest Panelist, International Grand Rounds in Medicine, Management of the Arthritides, Los Angeles California, Educational Conference Center, 5/17/82
-Telesession Workshop on the Management of Heterotopic Ossification, 12/20/82
-Grand Rounds, Chymopapain Injection, The Latest Management of Disc Problems, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,1/7/83
-Arthritis, The Numbr One Crippler, Speaker’s Bureau, Arthritis Foundation, Southern California Chapter, Wilshire Lion’s Club, 5/12/83
-Chymopapain, A New Therapy for Back Pain, Clive M. Segil, Beverly Hills Medical Center 4th Annual Clinical Symposium, Palm Springs, 5/13-15/83
-Chymopapain, A New Form of Treatment for Disc Herniation, Midway Hospital, 6/13/83
-Participant, Buckley School Health Fair Expo, 2/1/84
-Symposium on Ankylosing Spondylitis, Speaker on the Orthopaedic Aspects of Ankylosing Spondylitis, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 10/20/84
-Taping Ankylosing Spondylitis Orthopaedic Management, Orthopaedic Audio Synopsis Foundation, Ankylosing Spondylitis, 1985 July Issue, Publication of Continuing Education and Orthopaedic Surgery, 1/30/85
-Arthritis Foundation 30th Annual Stop Arthritis Telethon, 3/3/85
-Surgical Intervention in Sports Injuries, 11th Annual Review Course In Family Practice, University of Southern California, 5/14/85
-Lecture to Chiropractors, 11/7/85
-Scoliosis Study Group, Presentation of Cases, 11/13/85
-Presentation of Cases, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, John C. Wilson, Visiting Professor, Dr. John E. Hall, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, 2/10/86
-Community Lecture Series, Midway Hospital Medical Center, 1986
-Presentation of Cases, Visiting Professor, Dr. John Dubousset, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, 1/12-15/87
-Visiting Orthopaedic Surgery Professor, Orthopaedic University Clinic, Balgrist, Zurich, Switzerland, 3/17/87
-Simmons Surgical Society Meeting and Presentation of Paper – Past, Present and Future of Spinal Surgery, 4/30/87
-Percutaneous Discectomy, Rehabilitation Nurses Seminar, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, 9/30-10/1/87
-Visiting Professor – Spinal Cases, Past, Present and Future, Lecture Day with Residents and Symposium, University of Louiseville, 5/5-6/88
-Spinal Salvage Surgery, 6th International Conference on Cotrel-Dubousset Instrumentation, Monte Carlo, 9/89
-Program Chairman, Conference on the Prevention and Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism, 3/17/90
-Spinal Salvage Surgery and Cotrel-Dubousset Instrumentation, 25th Annual Spring Meeting, Los Angeles Chapter, Western Orthopaedic Association, Dana Point, 3/30-4/1/90
-Spinal Salvage Surgery, International College of Surgeons, Spine Education, Advanced Symposium on Recent Developments of Spinal Instrumentation and Disc Surgery, San Antonio, Texas. Guest of Honor, Leon Wiltse, 5/4/90
-Spinal Salvage Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Combined Neurosurgical and Orthopaedic Update on Spinal Trauma, Spinal Salvage Surgery, 5/12/90

Attended:
-Orthopaedic Post-graduate Course, 8/76
-Scoliosis Research Society Annual Meeting, Ottowa, 9/76
15 _ Hours of Instruction on Leg-Calve Perthes Syndrome, Orthopaedic Hospital, 11/17-18/77
-Scoliosis Research Society Meeting, Japan and Hong Kong, 9/78
-Department of Surgery, Section of Orthopaedics Seminar on Some Aspects of Total Knee Replacement, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 12/2/78
-American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Toronto, Canada, 2/79
-Lecture on Scoliosis, Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital School of Continuing Education, 3/1/79
-First Joseph C. Risser Annual Lectureship, Altering the Forces of Growth in a Developing Spine, Kenton D. Leatherman, 3/13/80
-48th Annual Meeting, American Academy of Orthopaedic surgeons, Las Vegas, 1981
-Orthopaedic Surgery Day, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Management of Shoulder Problems, 4/29/81
-Course - Sports Medicine Program, Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstructive Procedure, Centinela hospital Medical Center, 6/15/81
-Third Annual Joseph C. Risser Lecture, Orthopaedic Hospital,
G. Dean MacEwen, Evaluation and Treatment of Mild Idiopathic Scoliosis, 3/11/82
-Seventh Combined Meeting of the Orthopaedic Associations of the English-Speaking World, Capetown, 3/21-27/82
-American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Course on Intradiscal Therapy, Los Angeles, 2/12/83
-Spinal Surgery, Back to basics, Combined Neurosurgical and Advanced Course, University of Miami School of Medicine, 2/27-3/3/83
-American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 50th Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, 3/10-15/83
-Risser Memorial Lecture, Dr. Eduardo Lugue, Thoracolumbar Fractures, 3/30/83; A Decade of Segmental Spinal Instrumentation, 3/31/83
-Cemetnless Total joint Replacement for Hips and Knees, Orthopaedic Surgery Day, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 11/2/83
-Arthroscopic Surgery Course, Robert W. Metcalfe, M.D., Salt Lake City, 3/1-3/84
-Continuing Medical Education, PCS Cemented and Cementless Total Hip Arthroplasty Course, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, 6/2/84
-University of Southern California Graduate Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting, 6/7-8/84
-6th Annual Risser Memorial Lecture, Edward H.Simmons, Anterior Spinal Instrumentation in the Management of Idiopathic Scoliosis and Pitfalls in the Surgical Management of Surgical Low Back Disability, 3/13-14/85
-University of Judaism, Earl Warren Institute of Ethics in Human Relations, Medical Section Continuing Education, Ethical Issues in Medicine, 4/21/85
-Rheumatoid Cervical Arthritis, William Fielding, Orthopaedic Hospital, 5/1/85
-Symposium, MRI of the Musculoskeletal and Cardiovascular Systems, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 1/17/87
-American Orthopaedic Association, 100th Annual Meeting of the Medical and Orthopaedic Association, The Combined Meeting of the English-Speaking World, Orthopaedic Surgeons, 5/3-8/87
-Orthopaedic Surgery in Rheumatoid Arthritis, 5/17/87
-Charles Lowman, Visiting Professor, Paul P. Griffin, Orthopaedic Hospital, 9/10/87
-Memorial Medical Center of Long Beach, University of California, Irvine, Center for Health Education, Certificate of Course
-Completion – The Ilizarof Techniques for Orthopaedics, 11/7/87
-University of Southern California International Symposium on Total Hip Replacement, 12/3-6/87
-John. C. Wilson, Visiting Lecturer, Pedrog J. Klisic, Children’s Hospital, 1/25/88
-Scoliosis Research Society Meeting, Amsterdam, 9/89


RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:

-A Study Showing the Relationship of Osteoporosis, Haemosiderosis, and Vitamin C Depletion in Young African Blacks
-The Effect of High Doses of Calcium on Osteoporosis, A Triple Blind Study
-Ongoing Study in the Methods of Management of Scoliosis
-An Assessment in the Use of Chymopapain as a Chemonucleolytic Agent
-The Incidence of Scoliosis and Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
-Excimer Laser in Disc Ablation


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Abstracts and Presentation at Meetings:
-Discography as a Method of Localization of the Symptomatic
Level in Discogenic Disease of the Spine. Paper Presented to the Canadian Orthopaedic Congress, Quebec City, June 1971
-The Incidence of Idiopathic Scoliosis in a Comparable Group of Black and White School Children in Johannesburg. Presented to 49th South African Medical Congress in Capetown, July 1973.
-Discography as a Diagnostic Method in Discogenic Disease of the Spine. Presented to the 49th South African Medical Congress, Capetown, July 1973.
-Spinal Salvage Surgery. Presented to the 6th International Conference on Cotrel-Dubousset Instrumentation, Monte Carlo, September 1989.
-Incidence of Juvenile Scoliosis in Rheumatism and Arthritis.

Cinematography:
-A Sound Slide Presentation of Diastematomyelia.
-A Sound Slide Presentation of Kyphosis.
-A Sound Slide Presentation of Kyphoscoliosis.

Articles Accepted for Publication:
-Orthopaedics, No. 2, June 1974, Pages 10-16. Current Concepts in the Management of Scoliosis
-Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, No. 108, May 1975, Pages 57-70. An Evaluation of Discography in the Localization of Symptomatic Levels in Discogenic Disease of the Spine
-Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 56B, No. 2, May 1974, 392. Discography in the Localization of Symptomatic Levels in the Spine.
-Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 56B, No. 2, May 1974, 393. Incidence of Idiopathic Scoliosis in Johannesburg, South Africa
-Nursing Clinics of North America, Vol. 11, No. 4, December 1976, Pages 691-698. Current Concepts in the Management of Scoliosis
-Clinical Research 25181A, 1977. Prevalence of Scoliosis in Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
-Journal, Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, 1989, Vol 9, Pages 124-131. Excimer Ablation of Human Intervertebral Disc at 308 Nanometers. Authors: Mark Wolgin, M.D., John Finkenberg, M.D., Thenasis Papeaioannou, M.D., Clive Segil, M.D., Charles Soma, M.D., and Warren Grundfest, M.D.