Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon: Standard of Care Expert

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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Dr. Ahmer K. Ghori is a board-certified & Harvard trained Orthopaedic Spine surgeon with more than 10 years of independent surgical practice and extensive experience in the diagnosis and treatment of complex spinal disorders. He is a partner at Orthopaedics Northeast in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he maintains an active high-volume surgical practice focused exclusively on spine surgery. Dr. Ghori performs approximately 400 spine operations annually and has performed more than 4,000 spine procedures during his independent practice. His clinical work includes treatment of degenerative cervical and lumbar spine disease, cervical myelopathy, spinal trauma, spinal tumors, spinal infections, spinal deformity, and revision spine surgery. Dr. Ghori completed orthopaedic surgery residency through the Harvard University Orthopaedic Residency Program at Harvard Medical School and subsequently completed specialized spine surgery fellowship training at the Norton Leatherman Spine Center in Louisville, Kentucky. His fellowship included multidisciplinary training in both orthopaedic and neurosurgical spine surgery. Dr. Ghori is board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and has been in continuous clinical practice since completing fellowship training. His surgical expertise includes anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF), cervical disc arthroplasty, lumbar decompression surgery, lumbar fusion procedures including TLIF, PLIF, and ALIF, pedicle screw instrumentation, lumbar disc replacement, spinal navigation, revision spine surgery, thoracolumbar trauma stabilization, spinal tumor decompression and stabilization, spinal infection management, scoliosis surgery, and complex spinal deformity reconstruction. Dr. Ghori provides expert consultation in cases involving spinal surgery, spinal injury, and disorders of the cervical and lumbar spine. He has reviewed more than 20 medico-legal cases involving spinal surgery and spinal disorders and works with both plaintiff and defense counsel. His expert work focuses on spine surgery standard of care, medical causation, appropriateness of surgical indications, and evaluation of complications following spinal surgery. A key component of his approach is integrating detailed review of the medical record with analysis of the peer-reviewed spine surgery literature. This allows attorneys to understand both the supporting and opposing scientific evidence relevant to a case before deposition or trial. Areas of analysis include spinal surgery standard of care, delayed diagnosis of spinal cord compression, cervical myelopathy management, spinal trauma treatment, complications following ACDF or cervical disc replacement, lumbar fusion indications and complications, management of spinal infections, and postoperative neurologic deficits. Dr. Ghori has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications in orthopaedic and spine surgery literature and has contributed book chapters on spine surgery topics. Because he remains an actively practicing spine surgeon performing hundreds of procedures each year, he provides expert opinions grounded in current surgical practice and contemporary standards of spine care. Dr. Ghori is available nationwide for medical record review, standard-of-care analysis, medical causation evaluation, deposition testimony, and trial testimony.