Location: Skyline and Hendersonville Care Centers

Specializing in: Spine, Trauma, and General Orthopaedics

Dr. Babat is a graduate of Yale University School of Medicine, where he spent an additional year as a research fellow in Dr. Manohar Panjabi’s spine biomechanics laboratory. He completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at Brown University, where he also served as a trauma fellow. He then completed a combined neurosurgical and orthopaedic spine fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. In addition to reconstructive spine surgery, Dr. Babat has a special interest in the management of spine tumors.

As a member of the Depuy-Acromed faculty, Dr. Babat teaches minimally invasive spine surgery to other surgeons throughout the country, and serves as a mentor to visiting surgeons at Skyline Medical Center. He is currently helping to develop new minimally invasive spine surgery equipment. He has recently been named to the teaching faculty of Kyphon, a company that manufactures minimally invasive instruments for the care of the osteoporotic spine. He is frequently asked to evaluate and to help refine new spine equipment before it is released to other surgeons throughout the country, and is currently developing instrumentation of his own design.

Dr. Babat is currently serving as Chief-Elect of Skyline Medical Center. He is also affiliated with Hendersonville Medical Center, Skyline Madison Campus, Williamson Medical Center, and Premier Orthopaedic Surgery Center. He maintains courtesy privileges at Centennial Medical Center. He is a member of the North American Spine Society, the World Spine Society, and the American Academy of Orthopaedics. He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters in the field of spine surgery.

1.  Babat LB, McLain RF, Bingaman W, Biscup R, Kalfas I, Young P, Rufo-Smith C

     “Spinal Surgery in Parkinson’s Patients: Implant Failure and Progressive Kyphosis”

     In press, Spine Journal.

2.  Babat LB, McLain R, “Metastatic Disease of the Thoracolumbar Spine,” Cancer in the Spine:

     Handbook of Comprehensive Care, 2004.

3.  Babat LB, Morone M, Boden S, “Physiology of Bone Healing and Fusion,”Spine Surgery:

     Techniques, Complication Avoidance, and Management. 2004.

4.  Babat L, Ehrlich M, “A Paradigm for the Age-Related Treatment of Knee Dislocations in  

     Larsen’s Syndrome,” Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics 20(3): 396-401; 2000.

5.  Ehrlich M, Babat L, “Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip,” Oxford Textbook of Surgery.

     1999.

6.  Panjabi M, Cholewicki J, Nibu K, Babat L, Dvorak J, “Simulation of Whiplash Trauma Using

     Whole Cervical Spine Specimens,”Spine 23(1): 17-24; 1998.

7.  Panjabi M, Cholewicki J, Nibu K, Grauer JN, Babat LB, Dvorak J, “Mechanism of Whiplash

     Injury,”Clinical Biomechanics 13(4-5): 239-249: 1998.

8.  Panjabi M, Cholewicki J, Nibu K, Grauer JN, Babat LB, Dvorak J, “Critical Load of the

     Human Cervical Spine: An In Vitro Experimental Study,”Clinical Biomechanics 13(1): 11-

     17; 1998.

9. Panjabi M, Cholewicki J, Nibu K, Grauer JN, Babat L, Dvorak J, Bar H, “Biomechanics of

    Whiplash Injury,” Orthopade 27(12): 813-9; 1998.

10. Cholewicki J, Panjabi M, Nibu K, Babat L, Grauer J, Dvorak J, “Head Kinematics during In

     Vitro Whiplash Simulation,”Acid Anal Prev 30(4): 469-79; 1998.

11. Nibu K, Cholewicki J, Panjabi M, Babat L, Grauer J, Kothe R, Dvorak , “Dynamic

      Elongation of the Vertebral Artery during an In Vitro Whiplash Simulation,” European Spine

      Journal 6(4): 286-9; 1997.