Medical Student/Senior Research Fellow
UPMC
Samuel H. Wakelin is a medical student at the Georgetown University School of Medicine and a research fellow with the Spine Computational Outcomes Learning Institute (SCOLI) in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. His research focuses on spine biomechanics, finite element modeling, and computational analysis of spinal instrumentation and bone quality.
Mr. Wakelin’s work integrates advanced imaging analysis and patient-specific modeling to investigate factors influencing spinal fusion outcomes, implant biomechanics, and subsidence risk in lumbar interbody fusion procedures. He has contributed to multiple studies evaluating spinal fixation strategies, cortical and trabecular bone characteristics on CT imaging, and machine learning approaches for predicting postoperative outcomes.
He is actively involved in several collaborative neurosurgical research initiatives and has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations in the field of spine surgery and computational biomechanics.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose