Zachary Pennington, MD

Mayo Clinic

Zach Pennington is a fourth year resident in neurological surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. He completed his undergraduate studies in neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, from which he graduated with Highest Honors. He then completed medical school at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he worked under the mentorship of Daniel Sciubba and Nicholas Theodore. He has published over 225 PubMed-indexed manuscripts to date, with research areas of focus being including spinal tumors, spine deformity, and the impact of bone quality on postoperative outcomes in instrumented spine surgery.

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Presentation(s):

• Predictors of maximizing the degree of listed interbody lordosis imparted during one- or two-level TLIF for degenerative pathology

  Saturday, February 22, 2025
  7:36 AM – 7:39 AM EST

• Bone quality and paraspinal musculature influence proximal junctional kyphosis failure mode amongst patients undergoing lumbopelvic fusion terminating at the thoracolumbar junction

  Saturday, February 22, 2025
  8:03 AM – 8:06 AM EST

• Comparison of sagittal plane correction with “bullet” vs “banana”-type transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion devices

  Sunday, February 23, 2025
  7:32 AM – 7:34 AM EST