Doctor Curylo, M.D. is a native of Poland, and was raised in Houston, TX. He graduated and obtained his medical degree from the Gdansk Medical University in Gdansk, Poland. He completed his 6 year orthopedic surgery residency at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. He also completed an adult spinal surgery fellowship at Rush University in Chicago and a pediatric spine surgery fellowship at Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children in Chicago.
Dr. Curylo, M.D. is a fellowship trained spinal surgeon and is board certified by American Board of Orthopedic Surgery (ABOS) as well as a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery (AAOS). He is also fluent in four languages; English, Polish, German, and Russian.
He has extensive research experience as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and at the AO/ASIF Institute in Davos, Switzerland. He has published cutting edge science articles on stem cell technology and bone grafting in spinal fusions. He also enjoyed teaching residents and fellows during his academic work as Assistant Professor of Spinal Surgery at the University of Rochester, in Rochester, NY.
His dedication to patients comes from a long family tradition as he is a fourth generation physician. His grandfather was a general surgeon during World War 2 and his great grandfather worked as a microbiologist in the late 19th century in Vilnius, Poland.
In his free time Dr. Curylo enjoys hiking with his teenage children and his wife in the great Missouri outdoors. He enjoys fly fishing for trout in the Current River. During deer season you can find him hunting with his teenage sons. He also bicycles with his father on the Katy Trail from Kansas City to St. Louis and enjoys community work as a volunteer for the Gateway Off Road Cyclist Association in St Louis.
Dr. Curylo did an excellent job on my surgery, with an immediate improvement in my pain level. He was informative, kind, and patient. Spinal fusion surgery can be frightening – he helped me set aside my fear and do what was right for my long term health, without pressure..
This Friday marks my 1st anniversary as a back surgery survivor! Every day when I roll out of bed without the horrific sharp knife like pains in my leg I say a grateful prayer for you, your skill, your ability to heal those in pain, providing quality of life one again for your patients. Not only are you an amazing talented surgeon, but you are one compassionate caring in your bed side manner, also a great sense of humor! Happy anniversary to us!
Thank you so much for your expert surgical care. Spinal surgery is a very scary undertaking for a patient. I’m very appreciative of your excellent skill in helping me. Your reputation is well known and very much deserved. I thank you for all you have done for me.
2000-2001: Fellowship Spine Surgery
Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center & Shriner’s Hospitals, Chicago, IL
Director: Ronald DeWald, MD & Howard An, MD
1994-2000: Residency Orthopedic Surgery
Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
Director: Victor Goldberg, MD
1995-1996: Research Fellowship Orthopedic Surgery
Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
Director: Victor Goldberg, MD & Arnold Caplan, PhD
1994-1995: Internship General Surgery
Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio
Director: Victor Goldberg, MD
1991-1992: Externship Senior Medical Student at
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Northwestern Medical School, Chicago, Illinois
1986-1993: Medical School Integrated 6 year and Undergraduate & Graduate MD program
Gdansk Medical Academy, Gdansk, Poland, Europe
(currently renamed as Gdanski Uniwersytet Medyczny)
1980-1986: High School
Liceum No. 5, Gdansk-Oliwa, Poland, Europe
Books, Chapters
<Instrumentation in degenerative disorders of the cervical spine>
Curylo L, An H; Chapter 82 in The Cervical Spine; publication by the Cervical Spine Research Society, 2003, Fourth Ed.,; Lippincott-Raven Publishers, Philadelphia, PA
National Presentations
<Segmental Variations of Bone Mineral Density in the Cervical Spine>
L Curylo, R Lindsey, B Doherty, A LeBlanc Presented at annual CSRS Meeting, Baltimore 1995
<Autogenous Bone Marrow Augmentation of Spinal Fusion in a Rabbit Posterolateral Fusion Model>L Curylo, B Johnstone, S Petersilge, J Janicki , J Yoo
Presented at 63 rd annual ORS Meeting, San Francisco, 1996
<Anomalous Vertebral Artery: A Cadaveric and Clinical Case Study>
L Curylo, H Mason, H Bohlman, J Yoo
Presented at annual CSRS Meeting, Seattle 1999
<Same Level Lumbar Revision Surgery: Outcome in 63 patients with 2 to 21 year follow-up>
L Curylo, A Ragab, H Bohlman
Presented at 67th annual AAOS Meeting, Orlando 2000
< Radiographic markers in spondyloptosis: implications for spondylolisthesis progression>L Curylo, C Edwards, R DeWald
Presented at annual SRS Meeting, Cleveland 2001
< Radiographic markers in spondyloptosis: implications for spondylolisthesis progression>L Curylo, C Edwards, R DeWald
Presented at annual AAOS Meeting, Dallas 2002
2000-2001: Rush, Chicago; Clinical Spine Fellow Advisors: R. DeWald MD, R. Natarajan PhD
1995-1996: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland; Allen Research Fellow Advisors: J Yoo MD, B Jonstone PhD
1994-1995: AO/ASIF Institute, Davos, Switzerland; postdoc research Advisors: R Lindsey MD & S Perren MD
1993-1994: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston; postdoc research Advisors: R Lindsey MD, B Doherty PhD
1987-198: Department of Biochemistry, Gdansk Medical Academy, Gdansk, Poland Advisor:J Swierszczynski MD PhD
2001-2003: Faculty Appointment: Assistant Professor
Section of Spine Surgery, Department of Orthopedics University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY
1997-2000: Faculty Appointment: Clinical Instructor & Flight Physician, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
1995: Clinical Instructor, Musculo-skeletal Anatomy Course, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
1987-1988: Biochemistry Teaching Assistant, Gdansk Medical Academy, Gdansk, Poland