Nelson Astur Neto

For the past decade Dr. Nelson Astur, a board certified spine surgeon has been practicing in Sao Paulo. He received his medical degree from the University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, completed his orthopaedic residency followed by a Spine Surgery fellowship at Santa Casa de Sao Paulo. He spent years 2011-12 at Campbell Clinic, University of Tennesse, Memphis, as a Pediatric Spine Fellow and became Medical Instructor. Specialized in Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery at Semmes-Murphey Neurologic & Spine Institute in 2012. Continued his pediatric spine education at Boston Children?s Hospital, Harvard Medical School in 2014. He has been published in several issues of Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, The Spine Journal, Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics and many others highly impact medical journals. Dr. Astur currently practices at his private clinic at two adequate locations in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil; works as an Associate Physician of the Spine Group of Santa Casa de Sao Paulo School of Medical Sciences, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology; and, develops spine research and education as council member of AOSpine Brazil. Currently, he is the Research Officer for AOSpine Latin America.

Médico formado pela Universidade de São Paulo, ortopedista e cirurgião de coluna pela Santa Casa de São Paulo. Após a formação no Brasil, morou nos Estados Unidos, como médico instrutor da University of Tennessee, onde especializou-se em Coluna Pediátrica e Deformidades (Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics) e Cirurgia Minimamente Invasiva da Coluna (Semmes-Murphey Neurologic and Spine Institute). Após seu retorno, atua no Grupo de Coluna da Santa Casa de São Paulo desde 2010, onde se tornou Mestre em Medicina. Realizou Doutorado em Ciências da Saúde na Faculdade Israelita de Ciências da Saúde Albert Einstein. Membro da Sociedade Brasileira de Ortopedia e Traumatologia (SBOT), Sociedade Brasileira de Coluna (SBC), American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), North American Spine Society (NASS) e AOSpine. É o atual research Officer da AOSpine Latin America. Publicações, capítulos e apresentações nos principais jornais de ortopedia americanos indexados e congressos da especialidade.