Sean E. McCance

Sean E. McCance is an American orthopedic surgeon who specializes in the spine. He is Co-Director of Spine Surgery in the Leni and Peter W. May Department of Orthopaedics at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, an associate clinical professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and an attending spine physician at Lenox Hill Hospital. He took his M.D. at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1991, trained in general surgery and then orthopedics at the University of Rochester, and completed a spine surgery fellowship in Minneapolis in 1997. His clinical interests include the long-term results of instrumented lumbar fusions for degenerative disease, new surgical techniques for spinal stenosis and cervical spine fixation. He belongs to the Scoliosis Research Society, the North American Spine Society and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, wrote a chapter in a sports medicine text, and was listed among the Best Doctors for spinal fusion by Money Magazine.