Cara Sedney MD, MA, FAANS
Cara Sedney, MD, MA, FAANS, received her medical degree and underwent neurosurgical and orthopedic spine surgery training at WVU School of Medicine. Dr. Sedney's research interests include implementation science in spine care, the impacts of policy on the opioid epidemic and optimizing spinal care of underserved, rural and stigmatized patient groups.
As patient satisfaction plays an increasingly important part in medical care, a physician’s understanding of diagnosis-related stigma is critical for the alignment of physician and patient when a patient has a stigmatizing diagnosis. Neurosurgeons may have had the experience of feeling that they have competently addressed the medical issues, but the patient is dissatisfied with the clinic visit. These...
Evidence-based practices (EBPs) take an average of 17 years to be incorporated into routine medical practice and a number of neurosurgical care recommendations in the fields of degenerative disc disease, trauma, stroke and other common diagnoses are not universally applied, creating an “evidence-practice mismatch”. Implementation science (“ImpSci”) seeks to study and promote the uptake of EBPs to more successfully...
