Virgilio Matheus, MD, FACS

• Spine Surgery Fellowship

  Cleveland Clinic Foundation 2011-2012

• Neurological Surgery Residency

  Cleveland Clinic Foundation
  Cleveland, OH
  10/07-09/13

• Gamma Knife Perfexion™ Training Program

  Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH
  08/14

• General Surgery Residency

  Albert Einstein Medical Center
  Philadelphia, PA
  07/05- 06/07 PGY 1 and PGY 2

• Doctor of Medicine

  Universidad Central de Venezuela
  J. M. Vargas School of Medicine
  Caracas, Venezuela.
  09/96- 03/03

• Bachelor of Science

  Colegio Jefferson
  Caracas, Venezuela.
  10/91- 07/96

• Orlando Health Neuroscience Institute- Orlando Regional
  Medical Center- Neurosurgeon
  09/2017- Current
• Orlando Regional Medical Center
  Director Spine Surgery 02/19-10/2024
• University of Florida Health at Orlando Regional Medical Center
  11/2016- 08/2017
  Orlando, FL
• Southeastern Regional Medical Center
  10/2013- 11/2016
  Staff Neurosurgeon
  Medical Director of Neurosurgery
  Lumberton, NC

• Neurosurgery and Spine Trauma Rotation Director
  Orthopaedic Residency Program
  Orlando Health
  2019-Current
• Clerkship Faculty - Florida State University
  2019-Current
• Assistant Professor- University of Florida College of Medicine
  2016- 2017
• Assistant Professor- Campbell University School of Medicine
  2015- 2016

1. American Board of Neurological Surgeons- Certified 11/2016
2. American College of Surgeons- Fellow 2018
3. ECFMG Certified 03/05
4. ACLS Certified

1. State of North Carolina: Active
2. State of Florida: Active

1. ISASS annual meeting. April 2025. Podium Presentation. “Evaluating Intradiscal Pressure at the Proximal End - of MIS and Open- Long Lumbar Deformity Constructs: Human Cadaveric Biomechanical Study”
2. XIX Congress Neurosurgical Society of Rio de Janeiro. June 2024. Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Robotics in Spine Surgery.
3. VXIII Congress Colombian Orthopedic Spine Surgery meeting. February 2024 Cartagena, Colombia. Robotics in Spine Surgery.
4. CNS annual meeting. Washington DC. September 9, 2023. Meeting of the Americas. Robotics in Spine Surgery.
5. AANS annual meeting Philadelphia, April 20th, 2023. Faculty presentation. You are never too old for surgery. Cervical Spondylosis with Myelopathy.
6. Dominican Republic Neurosurgical Society. May 6th, 2022. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. International Guest Speaker. Use of Robotics on Deformity Correction Surgery. Prone Lateral and Single Position Lateral Surgery.
7. AANS annual meeting Philadelphia, April 29th, 2022. Faculty presentation.  You are never too old for surgery. Cervical Spondylosis with Myelopathy.
8. Pan-American Medical Association Annual Meeting Speaker: Deformity Correction Surgery Basics for the Primary Care Physician, September 2021
9. Cleveland Clinic Spine Review Course- Cleveland, OH-Cadaver laboratory faculty staff 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017,2018
10. Orlando Health Neuroscience Symposium 2019
    “Thoracic Spine- principles and pathology”
11. Orlando Health Neuroscience Symposium 2018
    Spinal Deformity for the Primary Care Provider
12. Nicholas Dellamonico Trauma Conference “Neurotrauma”, May 2017.

1. Faculty MERC Course Globus Medical. August 2024. Audubon, PA. Evolution of Spine Surgery. Prone Lateral
2. Faculty MERC Course Globus Medical. Sept. 2024. Audubon, PA. Lateral Spine Solutions
3. Faculty Robotic Navigation Institute. Globus Medical. March 2024. Nashville, TN
4. AANS Annual meeting. May 2024. Chicago, IL. Globus Medical Workshop Navigation vs Robotics.
5. CNS Annual meeting. Sept. 2023. Globus Medical Workshop presentation. Single Position Lateral Procedures
6. Faculty MERC Course. Globus. August 2023. Evolutions of Spine Surgery Cadaveric Course. MIS TLIF and Single Position Lateral Techniques.
7. Faculty MERC Course. Latest Innovations in Advanced MIS Surgery. March 19,2022. New York, NY
8. Faculty MERC Course. Lateral Access Surgery: Transpsoas vs. Anterior-to-Psoas. November 20, 2021. Miami, FL
9. Scoliosis Research Society Annual Meeting Industry Sponsored Speaker: Deformity Correction Surgery with Excelsius GPS GPS-Globus. St. Louis, MO, September 2021
10. Spine Summit Spine Joint Section annual meeting. Globus Workshop. Single position prone lateral surgical approaches. San Diego, CA. July 30^th, 2021
11. Faculty Speaker at Globus: Advanced Lateral Spine Reconstruction Surgery. Audubon, PA. June 26^th, 2021.
12. Faculty Speaker at the Globus Spine Excelsius Technology Symposium. Audubon, PA. June 11-12^th, 2021.
13. MERC Course. Shaping Tomorrow’s Spine Surgeons: Trends and Concepts for Residents and Fellows. Speaker/Faculty. May 15^th. 2021.
14. Spine Summit 2020 meeting. Industry Workshop. The Evolution of Robotic Guided Surgery. Speaker. March 7^th, 2020.
15. MERC Robotic Symposium. Robotics in Deformity Correction Surgery. Speaker. February 28-29^th, 2020.
16. Cervical Spine Research Society.  Industry Lunch Workshop: Cervical Corpectomy for Spondylotic Myelopathy. Speaker. November 21^st
17. MedEd Stryker Surgical Roadmap for complex spinal reconstruction. “C1-C2 Fracture Management”and“Costo-transversectomy technique- cadaver lab”. LSU Health Center. October 2018

• 2024
  North American Spine Society – Appointed Member Robotics, enabling technologies & MIS (REMi) Committee
• 2021
  North American Spine Society – Appointed Member Robotics Committee
• 2017
  Orlando Health Physicians Exemplars Award
• 2011
  Synthes Award from the Congress of Neurological Surgeons for resident research on spinal cord and spinal column injury
• 2009-2010
  Award Resident of the Year- Chairman’s choice at the Cleveland Clinic Neurosurgery Program
• 1993
  Jose Felix Ribas, 3rd Class Award (Exemplary Youth) Venezuela’s Family Ministry (awarded by excellent school and sports achievements for the nation)

1. “Thoracic corpectomy, anterior approach”. Core techniques in operative neurosurgery, Dr Peter Black. Elsevier.2011
   Chaudry S., Matheus V., Benzel E.
2. Endoscopic syringo-sub arachnoid shunt for treatment of syringomyelia with intra operative ultrasound assistance
   Neurological Institute Research day 2011- Cleveland Clinic Foundation
   Xiao D, Matheus V
3. Marburg’s disease- presentation of an acute demyelinating disorder
   Neurological Institute Research Day 2009- Cleveland Clinic Foundation
   Weil R, Matheus V
4. Effects of a combined Immunomodulatory therapy and chondroitinase after spinal cord hemisection injury.
   Ohio State Neurosurgical Society meeting 2011.
   First Place award
   Matheus,V.; Iannotti, C.; Grosso,M.; Clark, M.; Steinmetz,M.
5. Effects of a combined Immunomodulatory therapy and chondroitinase after spinal cord hemisection injury.
   Lumbar Spine Research Society meeting 2011.
   Matheus,V.; Iannotti, C.; Grosso,M.; Clark, M.; Steinmetz,M.
6. Effects of a combined Immunomodulatory therapy and chondroitinase after spinal cord hemisection injury.
   Congress of Neurological Surgeons meeting. Washington,D.C. 2011
   Matheus,V.; Iannotti, C.; Grosso,M.; Clark, M.; Steinmetz,M.
   Oral presentation
   Synthes Award for resident research on spinal cord and spinal column injury.
7. “Posterior lumbar interbody fusion”. Anesthesia for spine surgery. First edition. Cambridge University Press. 2012
   Matheus,V.; Bingaman,W.
8. “Somatosensory evoked potential for spinal surgery”. Spine Surgery: Technique, complications avoidance and management. Third edition. Elsevier. 2012
   Matheus, V.; Gonzalez-Martinez,J.; Nair, D.
9. “Neurologic and functional evaluation”. The Cervical Spine. Fifth edition. LWW. 2012
   Zeidman, S.; Benzel, E.; Matheus, V.
10. Thoracic range of motion and correlation to imaging-determined determination.
    The North American Spine Society 10^th annual Evidence and Technology Summit
    Utah 2014
    Healy, A.; Lubelski, D.; Mageswaran, P.; Matheus, V.; Rosenbaum, B.; Benzel, E.; Mroz, T.
11. “Effects of an Immunomodulatory Therapy and Chondroitinase After Spinal Cord Hemisection Injury”. Lippincott Williams & Wilkims. 2014
    Grosso, M.; Matheus, V.; Clark, M.; Van Rooijen, N.; Iannotti, C.; Steinmetz, M.
12. “Thoracic Range of Motion, Stability and Correlation to Imaging-Determined Degeneration”. The Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine. 2014
    Healy, A.; Lubelski, D.; Mageswaran, P.; Matheus, V.; Rosenbaum, B.; Benzel, E.; Mroz, T.
13. “Transforaminal and posterior lumbar interbody fusion”. Spine Surgery: Tricks of the Trade- 3^rd Thieme. March 2015
    Matheus, V.; Francis, T.
14. Robotics-guided placement of second set of screws in one pedicle: A case report. Virgilio Matheus, Camilo J. Albert. Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery. Volume 27, March 2022.
15. Robotics Assistance Improves Efficiency for Navigated TLIF Surgery. Brandon Simonetta, Corey Engel, Robert Hirschl, Virgilio Matheus. Journal of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Technique. 2021; 6(2): 83-89.
16. Static magnetic fields within spinal interbody cages for the promotion of spinal arthrodesis: a pilot study.
17. Hirschl RA, Biedrzycki AH, Sidhu HS, Wagner AS, Matheus V, Meiner ST, Foreman PM.World Neurosurg. 2020 Sep 3:S1878-8750(20)31996-3. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.08.217. Online ahead of print.
18. Randomized trial of Augmented Pelvic Fixation in Patients undergoing Thoracolumbar Fusion for Adult Spine Deformity: Initial Results from a Multicenter Randomized trial.
    Polly, D; Mundis, G; Eastlack, R; Leveque, JC; Elder, B; Martin, C; Kent,R; Snowden, R; sembrano, J; Herzog, J; Lieberman, I; Matheus, V; Shaffrer, C; SILVIA investigator group; et al.
    World Neurosurg. 2024 Jul:187:e15-e27.

1. Change the Pan-American Member at Large Tenure to Reflect 2019-2021
2. American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Fellow 2016 - Present
3. Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Member 2013 - Present
4. Florida Neurosurgical Society 2016 - Present
5. North American Spine Society 2013 - Present
6. American Medical Association, Member 2013 - Present
7. Pan-American Medical Association of Central Florida- Member at large 2019 - Present

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