Dr. Pratt, founder of Memphis Spine Center,
was born in Southern California, and attended the University of Colorado in
Boulder Colorado, receiving
his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Molecular Biology, Magna Cum Laude in 1977. He
attended Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee
graduating in 1981, and moved to Memphis to complete his general
surgery and orthopaedic residency at the University of Tennessee and Campbell
Clinic in 1986. Dr. Pratt returned to Vanderbilt in 1988 to complete his spine
fellowship through the Division of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation under the
direcdion of Dr. Dan Spengler. He returned to Memphis in 1989 and has been practicing spine and joint reconstruction surgery in
Memphis ever since. In 2003 he earned his M.B.A. in Healthcare Management
from Regis University in Denver, graduating at the top of his class with a
straight 4.0 average in graduate studies.
In 1998, Dr. Pratt founded SPINEMemphis, gaining valuable experience in building and developing spine care
centers. He has lectured extensively in the United States and Latin America on
topics ranging from Kyphoplasty and minimal access spine fusion, to business
models for spine centers, and interdisciplinary physical therapy/nurse practitioner/spine surgeon teams. He has served as
research investigator for the Advantage Ceramic total hip replacement, and MIIGX3 Kyphoplasty bone filler in vertebral fractures.
Dr. Pratt has published articles on
traumatic disc herniation in the journal SPINE, written chapters in several textbooks on total hip replacement &
hip fractures and articles on manual therapy & spinal disorders. He has appeared
as TV medical expert numerous times on topics ranging from joint replacement to
minimally invasive spine surgery. He serves as paid consultant for Medtronic Inc.,
Wright Medical Technologies, Inc. and Kyphon, Inc. He is Board Certified by the
American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, and fellow of the North American Spine
Society, the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, and The American
Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. He has one of the busier complex spine practices in the Mid South.
Dr. Pratt lives in Germantown with his wife Maite de Lamerens,
MD a well respected Memphis Pediatrician, and their three children, Gregory 16,
Meredith 15, and Benjamin 11. He also enjoys spending time with his family,
writing, boating, guitar, singing, and his two retrievers "Rusty" and "Nala".
