Richard Kaul
The Spine Africa Project, USA
Biography
Richard Kaul graduated in 1988 from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London University in 1988 with degrees in both surgery and medicine MBBS. He then underwent eight years of Postgraduate training in both the UK and the US in the fields of general surgery, anesthesiology, interventional pain and minimally invasive spine surgery. From 2002 to present he has continued to actively engage in the education and teaching of the skills of percutaneous and minimally invasive spinal intervention all over the world. He was the first physician to successfully perform a percutaneous outpatient lumbar interbody fusion using an expandable device inserted via the transforaminal approach under fluoroscopic guidance. This procedure carried out in 2005 in the US revolutionized the practice of spinal care leading to the current statistics of affairs in which the majority of spine cases are performed in ambulatory surgical centers. He has several patents that relate to future designs for improved and portable intraoperative tissue visualization and environmentally aware state of the art mobile surgical facilities.