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Dr. Fabien D. Bitan is an orthopedic spine surgeon in private practice in New York City. He is the director of Spine Surgery services at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. Dr Bitan was trained in Paris, France where he earned his Medical Degree and his Board Certification in Orthopedic Surgery.
His orthopedic training was focused from the beginning on spinal surgery. One of the important moments of his years of training was the twelve months he spent at the "Institut Calot" in Berk-sur-mer in the North of France. The "Institut Calot" is one of the most prominent centers for the treatment of spinal deformities (scoliosis and kyphosis) in Europe. Dr Cotrel has been the chief surgeon of this institution where he designed the "Cotrel-Dubousset Instrumentation" in the mid-1980s. Dr Bitan had the great privilege of training during these years and of acquiring extensive experience and skills in the use of this revolutionary technique well before it became wide-spread in the orthopedic world. (Nowadays, this technique is recognized throughout the world as one of the most influential breakthroughs in spinal surgery of the last decades). Dr Bitan, enriched by more than a thousand surgical cases, is recognized in France as one of the experts in spinal instrumentation, especially in Scoliosis and Kyphosis.
After his residency, Dr. Bitan studied Disc Replacement technology (Charite Disc), which at the time was used in France in only one institution (Hopital Beaujon, Clichy, France).
