Distinguished Professor and former chair of orthopedic surgery at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, Dr. Steven R. Garfin sees complex reconstructive spine cases at the 200 West Arbor Drive medical offices on the UCSD Hillcrest campus. Garfin joined the UCSD faculty in 1981 after completing his orthopedic residency at UC San Diego and an adult spine fellowship at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, and his clinic sits steps from the main surgical volume of Hillcrest Medical Center at UC San Diego Health. His clinical practice addresses adult scoliosis, multilevel degenerative disc disease, cervical myelopathy, spinal cord injury, osteoporotic compression fractures, and revision spine surgery after failed prior fusions. Garfin is credited as a pioneer of kyphoplasty for osteoporotic vertebral fractures and has helped develop the cervical halo, modular pedicle screw fixation, and minimally invasive sacroiliac joint fusion through more than 300 peer-reviewed publications and 21 edited textbooks. Post-operative rehabilitation for his fusion and decompression patients routes to Spine & Sport Physical Therapy - Hillcrest, 5th Ave., where staged progression from log-roll precautions to loaded extension follows the six-week fusion imaging checkpoint. The signature case profile is multilevel lumbar reconstruction combining anterior interbody cages with posterior pedicle screw fixation and bone graft in adult degenerative scoliosis whose sagittal balance and pelvic incidence demand simultaneous front-and-back correction.