Journal of Spine

Virginie Lafage

Biography

Dr. Lafage has completed her mechanical engineering degree and her Ph.D. in Biomechanics in one of the most prestigious engineering schools in France, the “Laboratoire de Biomécanique”, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers (ENSAM) Paris, France. After completing her fellowship in 2005, she redirected her efforts toward clinical research, in the setting of adult spinal deformity. In just a few years she was able to build a productive research team focused on outcomes based research, obtaining society, institutional, and industry grants. Most recently Dr. Lafage became the Director of Spine Research of the Spine Division at NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, where she leads a multidisciplinary team of researchers, clinicians and engineers. During the early stages of her career Dr. Lafage developed patient-specific-models using finite elements modeling of surgical outcomes. With her strong collaboration with Dr. Frank Schwab, Dr. Lafage and her team have now developed predictive models of outcomes, based upon clinical data. In addition to her research activities, Dr. Lafage and Dr. Schwab founded a company (Nemaris Inc) for the development of a clinical and research software platform to bridge the direct transition between outcomes based patient care, multicenter predictive models and databases.

Research Interest

mechanical engineering,spinal deformity,Spine,Joint Diseases