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Neurosurgeon
Atrium Health
Wake Forest University - Charlotte , US
Dr. Dom Coric is the Jerry and Audrey Petty Endowed Professor of Spine Surgery at Atrium Health/Wake Forest University and the Director of the Atrium Health Southeast Spine Center of Excellence. He spent 25 years as a neurosurgical spine surgeon at Carolina Neurosurgery and Spine Associates (CNSA) in Charlotte, North Carolina. He served 13 years as Chief, Department of Neurosurgery at Carolinas Medical Center (CMC)/Atrium Health. He also served as Executive Medical Director of SpineFirst and as the Director of the Carolina Center for Specialty Surgery, both joint ventures between CNSA and Atrium Health.
Dr. Coric received his undergraduate Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University, graduating cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with Honors in Psychology. He earned a Master of Arts in Psychology at Connecticut College. He received his Doctor of Medicine from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (formerly Bowman Gray School of Medicine), graduating Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA).
Dr. Coric serves on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), Director-at-Large and Board of Directors of the Neuropoint Alliance. He has served as President of the Southern Neurosurgical Society (SNS), and been honored as a SNS Distinguished Practitioner. He also served as Chair of the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Spine and Peripheral Nerves, President of the North Carolina Spine Society, President of the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery (ISASS).
His professional interests include clinical research focused on spinal motion preserving techniques. He has served as a Principal Investigator in over thirty IDE/IND trials and was national Lead, or co-Lead, Investigator in ten IDE/IND trials. He has contributed one hundred and sixty-five peer-reviewed articles and eighteen book chapters to the scientific literature.