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Christopher Ignatius Shaffrey

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Orthopaedic Surgery
DUMC Box 3077, Durham, NC 27710
DUMC Box 3077, Durham, NC 27710

Awards & Honors


Harvey Cushing Medal -The highest honor the AANS can bestow on a member

National AANS Scientific Meeting · May 2024 the highest honor the AANS can bestow on a member, was established in 1976. Given annually, this award recognizes AANS members for distinguished service and accomplishments in the field of neurosurgery.

International Travelling Fellow Award

Other Annual Meeting of the AANS/CNS Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves. · October 2023 Awarded in honor of Christopher I. Shaffrey, MD by the Christopher I. Shaffrey Honor Your Mentor fund, to support travel by an international participant to present a paper at the Annual Meeting of the AANS/CNS Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves.

Cushing Award for Technical Excellence and Innovation

Other AANS Annual Scientific Meeting · April 2022 The Cushing Award honors an AANS member for technical prowess and skill and/or innovation in the development of new procedures that have become part of the arsenal a neurosurgeon uses to treat disease or trauma.

Hibbs Awards For Best Clinical Research Paper Adverse Events in Multilevel Surgery in Elderly Patients with Spinal Deformity: Report of the Prospective Evaluation of Elderly Deformity Surgery (PEEDS)

Other Scoliosis Research Society · 2021

Meritorius Service Award

Other 32nd Annual Meeting of the Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves · March 2016

The Best Doctors in America 2010-2023

Other The Best Doctors in America · 2010

Russell A. Hibbs Award for Best Clinical Presentation: Risk-Benefit Assessment of Surgery for Adult Scoliosis: An Analysis Based on Patient Age?

Other Scoliosis Research Society · September 2009

Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, (6th edition)

Other Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare · 2006

Who’s Who in Medical Sciences Education

Other Who’s Who in Medical Sciences Education · 2005

Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, (5th edition)

Other Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare · 2004

Excellence in Clinical Care Award, University of Washington

Other University of Washington · 2003

Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, 4th edition

Other Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare · 2002

Seattle’s Best Doctors, (edition)

Other Seattle’s Best Doctors · 2002

Counsel of State Neurosurgical Societies Young Neurosurgeons Award, “Economic Analysis rhBMP-2 vs. Autogenous Iliac Crest Bone Graft for One Level Spinal Fusions”

Other Counsel of State Neurosurgical Societies Young Neurosurgeons Award · October 2001

Castle Connolly’s America’s Top Doctors 2001-2023

Other Castle Connolly’s America’s Top Doctors · 2001

Who’s Who in America, 54th edition

Other Who’s Who in America · 2000

American Association of Neurological Surgeons Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves/ AME Spine Fellowship Award

Other American Association of Neurological Surgeons Joint Section · July 1994

Crutchfield-Thomason-Gage Award, “Preclinical Analysis of Gore-Tex Surgical Membranes vs. Silastic as Dural Substitutes in a Model of Cortico-pial Injury”

Other Neurological Society of the Virginias · January 1994

Crutchfield-Thomason-Gage Award, “Evaluation of an Expanded Polytetrafluoroethylene Membrane as a Dural Substitute”

Other Neurological Society of the Virginias · January 1992

MacArthur Foundation Scholarship

Other MacArthur Foundation · August 1991

Best Surgical Intern, Naval Hospital San Diego

Other Naval Hospital San Diego · July 1986