John O’Toole, MD received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and went on to complete a residency in neurological surgery at the Neurological Institute of New York at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center , New York, New York. He completed a fellowship in spine surgery at the University of Chicago. He specializes in minimally invasive spine surgery, spinal oncology (including spinal column and spinal cord tumors), complex spinal reconstruction, spinal arthroplasty, and spinal radiosurgery. In 2005 Dr. O’Toole was the recipient for the Cloward Award from the AANS/CNS Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves. His research interests are clinical outcomes for spinal surgery, translational application of spinal biologics, and development of new spinal surgical techniques and devices.