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Specialties:
Spine
Fellowship Trained:
Spine
Biography
- Dr. Kwon currently serves as a spine surgery consultant for the Charlotte Hornets basketball team.
Clinic Locations
Matthews Surgery Center
710 Park Center Drive
Suite 100
Matthews, NC 28105
Suite 100
Matthews, NC 28105
South Park
5935 Carnegie Blvd.
Suite 200
Charlotte, NC 28209
Suite 200
Charlotte, NC 28209
Spine Center - Charlotte
2001 Randolph Rd.
Charlotte, NC 28207
Charlotte, NC 28207
My Team
Steven Randall, PA-C
Education
- University of Michigan - B.S. in Biology & B.A. in Art History
- University of Virginia - Doctor of Medicine
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital - Residency
- Panorama Spine Center | Denver, CO - Spine Fellowship
Practice
- Orthopedic surgeon specializing in spine care.
- Section Chief for Spine, Orthopedic surgery residency Atrium Health.
Awards
- Newsweek Magazine, Top 150 spine surgeons in USA
- 2026 North Carolina's Top Doctors, Charlotte Region, SouthPark Magazine
- 2025 North Carolina's Top Doctors, Charlotte Region, SouthPark Magazine
- Named a 2025 Top Doctor by Charlotte Magazine- Spine Surgery
- 2024 North Carolina's Top Doctors, Charlotte Region, SouthPark Magazine
- Named a 2024 Top Doctor by Charlotte Magazine- Spine Surgery
- 2023 North Carolina's Top Doctors, Charlotte Region, SouthPark Magazine
- Named a 2023 Top Doctor by Charlotte Magazine- Spine Surgery
- 2022 North Carolina's Top Doctors, Charlotte Region, SouthPark Magazine
- 2021 North Carolina's Top Doctors, Charlotte Region, SouthPark Magazine
- Named a 2021 Top Doctor by Charlotte Magazine
- 2020 North Carolina's Top Doctors, Charlotte Region, SouthPark Magazine
- 2019 North Carolina's Top Doctors, Charlotte Region, SouthPark Magazine
- 2018 North Carolina's Top Doctors, Charlotte Region, SouthPark Magazine
Research
Presentations
- MERC Advanced MIS posterior course. Denver, CO. 2018 | Course Chairman
- Society of Lateral Access Surgery meeting (SOLAS). NYC, NY 2016 | Faculty
- Society of Minimally invasive spine surgery – podium presentation 2014
- The Use Of Lateral Interbody Fusion With Concomitant Smith-Peterson. Osteotomies To Improve Sagittal Balance And Increase Lumbar Lordosis.
- SOLAS Meeting – podium presentation 2012
- Creation of Lumbar Lordosis using eXtreme Lateral Interbody Fusion and Concomitant Smith Peterson Osteotomies
- IMAST – podium presentation 2006
- Postural versus instrumented reduction in thoracolumbar Burst fractures; a radiographic analysis.
- Weidenbaum M, Kwon AJ, Lowenstein J, Sugalski M. 2002
- The hip-sacrum index - a fixed sagittal pelvic parameter.
- IMAST 2002 (International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques), Switzerland.
- Kwon AJ. Adjacent level degeneration of the cervical spine. 2005 Denver Spine Symposium. Denver, CO.
- Kwon AJ. Cervical spine trauma: Diagnosis and management. 2005 Synthes Spine Trauma Course. Denver CO
Publications
- Kwon, AJ. Et al. Indirect decompression and vertebral body endplate strength after lateral interbody spacer impaction: cadaveric and foam-block models. J Neurosurg Spine. 2016 May;24(5):727-33
- Kwon, A. et al. Mechanical loading differentially regulates 2006 membrane-bound and soluble RANKL availability in MC3T3-E1 cells. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2006 Apr;1068:568-72.
Testimonials
Dr. Kwon and his staff at OrthoCarolina have been wonderful from my first visit, through a complicated surgery and now post-op. I feel as though I have had very personal care. My questions were answered and after my first post-op, my spirits were lifted through both Dr. Kwon and his PA, Steven's, kind words of encouragement. I would highly recommend Dr. Kwon and Orthocarolina.
Dr. Kwon's Related Media
Blog Posts
July 31st, 2020
Exploring the Body from the Inside Out: Spine
In the spine edition of our Orthopedic Anatomy Series: Exploring Your Body from the Inside Out, we look at the causes and treatments of back pain and common spine ailments.
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