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| Office Address | Twin Cities Spine Center 913 E. 26th Street, Suite 600 Minneapolis, MN 55404 |
| Birthdate | August 11, 1963 |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Military Service | United States Marine Corps |
| 1983 | A.A. - State University of New York at Onondaga Community College Syracuse, NY, December 1983 Mathematics and Science, with High Honors. |
| 1986 | B.S. - Syracuse University Syracuse, NY, August 1986 Biology with concentration in Microbiology and Immunology |
| 1992 | Ph.D. - State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse, College of Graduate Studies Syracuse, NY, May 1992 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Concentration: molecular biophysics, protein chemistry, molecular modeling, oncogenes, and cell cycle regulation. Dissertation title: "Applications of Computer-Based Molecular Modeling and Molecular Dynamics Methods for Determination of the Structures of an Effector Peptide, an Effector Region of a Protein, and a Whole Protein." |
| 1992-1994 | State University of New York Health Science Center, Syracuse, NY Departments of Pathology and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Molecular Biophysics |
| 1995 | M.D. - State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse, College of Medicine Syracuse, NY, May 1995 |
| 1993 | Adjunct Instructor of Biology, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY July 1993 - August 1993 |
| 1993-1994 | Adjunct Instructor of Anatomy, Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY 1993 - 1994 |
| 2000 | Clinical Instructor, Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Minnesota Medical School July 2000 |
| 2004 | Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Minnesota 2004 |
| 2002-2003 | Orthopaedic Surgeon, Specialist in Spine Surgery. Summitt Orthopedics, Ltd, St. Paul, MN |
| 2002 | Spine Surgeon, Twin Cities Spine Center, Minneapolis, MN |
| Associate in Arts Degree "With High Honors" 2nd Place Award; Student National Medical Association National Research Forum and Competition, Philadelphia, PA, March 1991. President's Award For Excellence in Research; SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse December 1991. 1st Place Award; Student National Medical Association National Research Forum and Competition, New Orleans, LA, March 1992 The Dr. Henry A. Washington Brother of the Year Award, 1991-1992 (for Community Service, Academic, and Professional Achievement) Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Syracuse Alumni Chapter Student Marshall, College of Medicine Commencement, 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1993 American Society of Clinical Pathologists, Award for Academic Excellence, June 1993 The Premedical Society of Syracuse University, Outstanding Alumnus Award, May, 1995 The John Bernard Henry, M.D. Endowed Scholarship and Award for Clinical & Research Excellence SUNY-HSC Department of Pathology Award for Excellence in Pathology American Heart Association Award for Excellence in Medical Research The James L. Potts, M.D. Public Service Award The David G. Murray, M.D. Award for Excellence in Orthopedic Surgery | ||
| American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons American Orthopaedic Association American Spinal Injury Association Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity AO Spine Society Hennepin County Medical Society J. Robert Gladden Orthopaedic Society Minnesota Orthopaedic Association Minnesota Association of Black Physicians North American Spine Society OREF Alfred R. Shands Jr., M.D. Circle Ramsey County Medical Society Scoliosis Research Society |
| 2010 | "Communication for All Your Patients." Instructional Course. AAOS 2010 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 9-13, 2010. |
| 2009 | "Thoracic Pedicle Subraction vs. Smith-Petersen Osteotomies for Correction of Sagittal Plane Deformity: A Case-Matched Series." Hsu B, Mehbod AA, Transfeldt EE, Garvey TA, Perra JH, Schwender JD, Pinto MR, Dykes DC, Denis F, Lonstein JE, Winter RB. SRS 44th Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, September 23-26, 2009. |
| 2008 | University of Minnesota, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Grand Rounds, March 28, 2008, “Culturally Competent Care in Orthopaedics – Every Surgeon’s Responsibility”. Brighton Symposium, November 13, 2008 Getting to Equal: Strategies to understand and eliminate general and orthopaedic healthcare disparities. Spine Master’s Institute, North American Spine Society, Chicago, IL, April 9, 2008, 1. The Ageing Spine; 2. Advanced Techniques for Management of Complex Adult Spinal Deformity. |
| 2007 | Scoliosis Research Society 42nd Annual Meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 5-8, 2007. “Visualizing and quantifying the in vivo three-dimensional motion of the human lumbar spine: A novel technique.” Scoliosis Research Society 42nd Annual Meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 5-8, 2007. “The novel use of electromyography (EMG) to detect acute spinal motor tract injusr (SMTI) during decompression of the cervical/thoracic spine.” IMAST - International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques, Paradise Island, Bahamas, July 14, 2007. MRI measurement of supraadjacent neuroforaminal height after anterior lumbar interbody fusion: a prospective study. |
| 2006 | Stryker at Grand Geneva Resort, Lake Geneva, WI, August 11, 2006. "The Aging Spine, Indications, Challenges and Surgical Management." Stryker Meeting, Lake Geneva, WI, August 11-12, 2006. "The Aging Spine." |
| 2005 | Scoliosis Research Society 40th Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida, October 27-30, 2005. "Degenerative Adult Scoliosis: Radiographic Correlation of Lateral Rotary Listhesis with Neural Canal Dimensions." |
| 1989 | Dykes, D., Lauenstein, K., and Dracker, R. (1989) Pseudohemolytic transfusion reaction due to desferal therapy. (Abstract) Transfusion (Journal of the American Association of Blood Banks), 29(7S):33S. |
| 2009 | Vargas, Mehbod, Mullaney, Dykes, Schwender, Transfeldt, Akesen, Wroblewski: Salvage Procedures For Pseudoarthrosis After TLIF: Anterior Vs. Anterior-Posterior Surgery. A Clinical and Radiological Outcome Study. Accepted for Publication - JSOA. Schwender JD, Casnellie MT, Perra JH, Transfeldt EE, Pinto MR, Denis F, Garvey TA, Polly DW, Mehbod AA, Dykes DC, Winter RB, Wroblewski JM. Perioperative complications in revision anterior lumbar spine surgery: incidence and risk factors. Spine. 2009 Jan 1;34(1):87-90. |
| 2008 | Rozumalski A, Schwartz MH, Wervey R, Swanson A, Dykes DC, Novacheck T: "The in vivo three-dimensional motion of the human lumbar spine during gait". Gait Posture. 2008;28(3):378-84. Epub 2008 Jun 26. Ploumis A, Mehbod AA, Dressel TD, Dykes DC, Transfeldt EE, Lonstein JE: "Therapy of spinal wound infections using vacuum-assisted wound closure: risk factors leading to resistance to treatment". J Spinal Disord Tech. 2008;21(5):320-3. Sokolowski MJ, Garvey TA, Perl J 2nd, Sokolowski MS, Akesen B, Mehbod AA, Mullaney KJ, Dykes DC, Transfeldt EE: "Postoperative Lumbar Epidural Hematoma: Does Size Really Matter?" Spine. 2008 33(1): 114-9. Sokolowski MJ, Garvey TA, Perl J 2nd, Sokolowski MS, Cho W, Mehbod AA, Dykes DC, Transfeldt EE: "Prospective Study of Postoperative Lumbar Epidural Hematoma: Incidence and Risk Factors". Spine. 2008 33(1): 108-13. DOCUMENT LINK |
| 2006 | Ploumis A, Transfeldt EE, Gilbert TJ Jr, Mehbod AA, Dykes DC. Degenerative Lumbar Scoliosis: Radiographis Correlation of Lateral Rotatory Olisthesis with Neural Canal Dimensions. Spine. 2006; 31(20):2353-8. |
| 2000 | Clohisy, D.R., Cheng, E.Y., Dykes, D.C., Umen, A.J. and Thompson, R.C. (2000) Evaluation of the feasibility of and results of measuring health status changes in patients undergoing surgical treatment for skeletal metastases. Journal of Orthopaedic Research, 18: 1-9. |
| 1994 | Dykes, D.C., Friedman, F., Dykes, S.L., Brandt-Rauf, P., Murphy, R.B. and Pincus, M.R. (1994) Molecular dynamics studies of the H-ras gene-encoded p21 protein: Identification of flexible regions and possible effector domains. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 11: 443-458. |
| 1993 | Dykes, D.C., Brandt-Rauf, P., Luster, S.M., Friedman, F., and Pincus, M.R. (1993) Activated conformations of the ras-gene-encoded p21 Protein. (2) Comparison of the computed structure for the normal p21-GDP complex with the high-resolution x-ray structure. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 10:905-918. |
| 1992 | Licht, D., Cronstein B., Dykes, D.C., Pedersen J., Luster, S.M., Friedman, F.K., and Pincus M.R. (1992) Correlation of the conformation of a modified ribonuclease octapeptide, homologous to Peptide T, with its ability to induce CD4-dependent monocyte chemotaxis. Journal of Protein Chemistry, 11:475-481. Dykes, D.C., Brandt-Rauf, P., Luster, S.M., Friedman, F., and Pincus, M.R. (1992) Activated conformations of the ras-gene-encoded p21 protein. (1) An energy-refined structure for the normal p21 protein complexed with GDP. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 9:1025-1045. Pincus, M.R., Chung, D.L., Dykes, D.C., Brandt-Rauf, P.W., Weinstein, I.B., Yamaizumi, Z., and Nishimura, S. (1992) Pathways for activation of the ras- oncogene-encoded p21 protein. Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science, 22:323-342. Murphy, R.B., Pincus, M.R., Beinfeld, M.C., Dykes, D.C., Chen, J.M., Schneider, L.H., Gibbs, J., and Smith, G.P. (1992) Enkephalin is a competitive antagonist in the gastrointestinal tract, as predicted from prior conformational analysis. Journal of Protein Chemistry, 11:731-737. Brandt-Rauf, P.W., DeVivo, I., Dykes, D.C., and Pincus, M.R. (1992) Conformational effects of selected cancer-related amino acid substitutions in the p53 protein. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 10:253-264. Haspel, J., Dykes, D.C., Friedman, F.K., Chung, D., Ronai, Z., Brandt-Rauf, P.W., Baskin, L., Weinstein, I.B., Nishimura, S., Yamaizumi, Y., Singh, G., Murphy, R.B., and Pincus, M.R. (1992) Inhibition of ras-oncogene-encoded p21 protein induced maturation of oocytes by p21 peptide sequences predicted to be effector domain sites by molecular modeling. Medical Science Research, 20:809-811. Baskin, L., Haspel, J., Ronai, Z., Friedman, F., Brandt-Rauf, P.W., Chung, D., Weinstein, I.B., Nishimura, S., Yamaizumi, Y., Singh, G., Dykes, D.C., Murphy, R.B., and Pincus, M.R. (1992) A 43 kda protein (p43) that interacts with the ras-oncogene-encoded p21 protein strongly induces maturation of oocytes. Medical Science Research, 20:813-815. hung, D.L., Joran, A., Friedman, F., Robinson, R.R., Brandt-Rauf, P.W., Weinstein, I.B., Ronai, Z., Baskin, L., Dykes, D.C., Murphy, R.B., Nishimura, S., Yamaizumi, Z., and Pincus, M.R. (1992) Evidence that oocyte maturation induced by an oncogenic ras p21 protein and insulin is mediated by overlapping yet distinct mechanisms. Experimental Cell Research, 203:329-335. |
| 1991 | Pincus, M.R., Dykes, D.C., Carty, R.P., and Miller, J.L. (1991) Conformational energy analysis of the substitution of Val for Gly 233 in a functional region of platelet GPIba in platelet-type von Willebrand disease. Biochemica et Biophysica Acta, 1097:133-139. |
| 2003 | Denis F, Dykes DC, Garvey TA, Lonstein JE, Mehbod AA, Ogilvie JW, Perra JH, Pinto MR, Schwender JD, Transfeldt EE: "Scoliosis in children and adolescents. Diagnosis and treatment." Minnesota Physician, Volumne XVII, No. 7, October 2003. |
| 1. | Dykes, DC: Acute Spinal Trauma, in Manual of Orthopaedics, 6th Ed., LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, New York, 2005. |
| 2. | Dykes DC and Ogilvie JW: Adult Kyphosis In: Frymoyer, J.W., Wiesel, S., et al. (ed) The Adult Spine: Principles and Practice, 3rd Edition, Ch. 23, pp.479-490. Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Philadelphia, 2004. |
| 2009 | IMAST, Vienna, Austria, July 14-19, 2009. "Management of Infected Instrumented Deep Space Back Wounds With the Vacuum Assisted Closure Device.” (E-Poster) |
| 2008 | Anderson, KM, Hari, PK, Gadani, SD, Hanson, AM, Gustafson, CE, Pinto, MR, Dykes, DC, Perra, JH, Stone, LS, and Kehl, LJ: "Evaluation of objective measures of pain and function for translational pain research in lumbar degenerative disc disease." 12th World Congress on Pain meeting, 2008, Glasgow, Scotland. |
| 2004 | Dykes D, Polly D, Safriel Y, Perra J, Gilbert T: "Reliability of High-Resolution CT Scans in Interbody Rseudarthrosis Detection: Inter-Rater Consistency. Scoliosis Research Society (SRS), 39th Annual Meeting, September 2004, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Mehbod A, Garvey T, Dykes D, Wood K, Denis F, Perra J, and Schwender J: "Prospective Assessment of Cervical Fusion Status: Flexion-Extension Radiographs VS CT Scans". 11th International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques (IMAST), July 1-3, 2004, Bermuda. |