Campbell Clinic Foundation Announces New Endoscopic Spine Surgery Fellowship

March 7, 2025

Fellowship Overview

This is a 3-month, single fellow experience focused on endoscopic and minimally invasive spine surgery. Fellows will spend time in the clinic learning indications for and applications of endoscopic spine surgery. They will also experience a high volume endoscopic surgical practice, learning techniques and gaining hands-on experience with endoscopic spine surgery. The goal of the fellowship is for exiting fellows to have completed the “learning curve” under the guidance of an experienced endoscopist. Fellows will have the opportunity to participate in other minimally invasive and state of the art spine surgeries. Fellows will participate in at least one publishable research paper.

This is not intended to be a comprehensive spine fellowship. It is, instead, intended for surgeons that have completed spine training and are interested in incorporating endoscopic surgery into their practice or as an adjunct to a completed spine fellowship or Neurosurgery residency. This is a primarily outpatient degenerative spine practice. Fellows will have been part of over 50 endoscopic cases by the end of the fellowship.

Case Types

Uniportal Endoscopic

Medial Branch Transection
Interlaminar Discectomy
Transforaminal Lumbar Discectomy
Transforaminal Thoracic Discectomy
Unilateral Laminotomy for Bilateral Decompression(ULBD)
Cervical Foraminotomy(+/- discectomy)

Other outpatient non-endoscopic cases

Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF)
Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion (ACDF)
Cervical Disc Arthroplasty

Staff

Fellows will train with Dr. Chad Campion at the Campbell Clinic in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. Campion is a board-certified, fellowship-trained spine surgeon who has been on staff at Campbell Clinic since 2021. He is a graduate of the UTHSC-Campbell Clinic Orthopaedic Surgery Residency and completed a spine surgery fellowship at Norton-Leatherman Spine Center in Louisville, Kentucky.

Dr. Campion has a high-volume endoscopic and minimally invasive spine surgery practice. His practice is primarily focused on motion preservation and outpatient spine surgery. Dr. Campion is experienced in training surgeons in endoscopic spine surgery. He also trains residents in orthopaedics and spine surgery as members of the UTSHC-Campbell Clinic Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering faculty. Dr. Campion’s research is primarily focused on endoscopic and minimally-invasive spine surgery.

Anticipated start/ end dates:

September 1-December 1, 2025

Applicant requirements

Board-eligible or Board-certified Neurosurgeons or spine fellowship trained Orthopaedic Surgeons.
Completed a United States Residency in Neurosurgery or Orthopaedic Surgery.
United States citizens.

Application Materials