Erica F. Bisson

About

Dr. Erica F. Bisson is a Professor of Neurosurgery and an Adjunct Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of Utah. She received her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts, and completed her Neurosurgical training at the University of Vermont. Her fellowship in complex spinal disorders was completed at the University of Utah under the direction of Dr. Ronald Apfelbaum. She has professional experience at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Massachusetts, and Emerson Hospital as Senior Staff, with an adjunct appointment as Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Tufts University School of Medicine. Since returning to Utah in 2009, she has been part of the Spine Division in the Department of Neurosurgery. Dr. Bisson is a fellow of the American Board of Neurological Surgeons and a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Spine Section. Her research includes over 100 peer-reviewed articles, and she serves as principal investigator on several national and international multicenter trials. Her collaborative research work spans faculty in Neuroradiology, Exercise and Sports Medicine, and Neurosurgery Spine at the University of Utah and the Medical College of Wisconsin. She holds many roles nationally, including being a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Neurosurgery and serving as the Scientific Program Chair for the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Spine and Peripheral Nerves. Her clinical expertise focuses on…

Research topics

• Medicine
• Surgery
• Nuclear magnetic resonance
• Family medicine
• Clinical psychology
• Radiology
• Internal medicine
• Physical therapy
• Nuclear medicine
• Nursing

Selected publications

• Effect of Ventral vs Dorsal Spinal Surgery on Patient-Reported Physical Functioning in Patients With Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy

  JAMA · 2021 · 178 citations

  Importance: Cervical spondylotic myelopathy is the most common cause of spinal cord dysfunction worldwide. It remains unknown whether a ventral or dorsal surgical approach provides the best results. Objective: To determine whether a ventral surgical approach compared with a dorsal surgical approach for treatment of cervical spondylotic myelopathy improves patient-reported physical functioning at 1 year. Design, Setting, and Participants: Randomized clinical trial of patients aged 45 to 80 years…

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• Quality Outcomes Database Spine Care Project 2012–2020: milestones achieved in a collaborative North American outcomes registry to advance value-based spine care and evolution to the American Spine Registry

  Neurosurgical FOCUS · 2020 · 67 citations

  The Quality Outcomes Database (QOD), formerly known as the National Neurosurgery Quality Outcomes Database (N2QOD), was established by the NeuroPoint Alliance (NPA) in collaboration with relevant national stakeholders and experts. The overarching goal of this project was to develop a centralized, nationally coordinated effort to allow individual surgeons and practice groups to collect, measure, and analyze practice patterns and neurosurgical outcomes. Specific objectives of this registry program…

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• The Impact of Preoperative Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on Postoperative Outcomes in Lumbar Spine Degenerative Disease: 3-Month and 12-Month Results of a Pilot Study

  World Neurosurgery · 2020 · 30 citations

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• High-b diffusivity of MS lesions in cervical spinal cord using ultrahigh-b DWI (UHb-DWI)

  NeuroImage Clinical · 2021 · 6 citations

  PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate UHb-rDWI signal in white matter tracts of the cervical spinal cord (CSC) and compare quantitative values between healthy control WM with both MS NAWM and MS WM lesions. METHODS: was estimated by fitting the signal-b curve to a double or single-exponential function. RESULTS: /s, respectively. UHb-rDWI signal-b curves of the MS patients revealed to noticeably behave differently to that of the healthy controls. The patient signal-b curves decaye…

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• Does back pain catastrophizing influence 60-month surgical outcomes for patients with degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis? A Quality Outcomes Database study

  Journal of Neurosurgery Spine · 2025-09-12 · 3 citations

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  OBJECTIVE: Degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis is a common cause of back and leg pain influenced by factors like instability, disc degeneration, facet arthropathy, and psychosocial phenotype. Patients' experience of high-severity pain is complex, with significant implications for surgical planning. The goal of this study was to assess the impact of back pain catastrophizing on long-term outcomes following lumbar spondylolisthesis surgery. METHODS: This study uses the Quality Outcomes Database…

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Frequent coauthors

• Charles G. Fisher

  Vancouver Spine Surgery Institute

  574 shared

• Christopher I. Shaffrey

  Duke University

  441 shared

• Sean Christie

  Dalhousie University

  407 shared

• Nicolas Dea

  University of British Columbia

  357 shared

• Michael G. Fehlings

  University of Toronto

  345 shared

• Arjun Sahgal

  Sunnybrook Health Science Centre

  266 shared

• Anthony L. Asher

  262 shared

• Christopher S. Bailey

  London Health Sciences Centre

  259 shared

Education

• M.D.

  Tufts University School of Medicine

• Other, Neurosurgical training

  University of Vermont

• Other, Fellowship in complex spinal disorders

  University of Utah

Awards & honors

• Fellow of the American Board of Neurological Surgeons
• Member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons,…
• Selected to participate in the 2012 AAMC Early Career Women…

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