James J. Yue, MD, is co-chief of the orthopaedic spine surgery section at the Yale School of Medicine. He is director of the Yale Spine Fellowship as well as the lead surgeon for motion sparing as well as endoscopic spine surgery. He has been the Principal Investigator/Co-Investigator on a number of FDA and non FDA clinical trials for disc replacement and endoscopic spine surgery. He is the Chair of the Education Committee for the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery and IITTSS spine society.