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CSIE:

Welcome to CSIE, the Center for Surgical Innovation and Engineering at Cedars Sinai’s Department of Orthopedic Surgery. At CSIE our goal is to integrate the concepts of engineering, physics, artificial intelligence, and data science with clinical science to develop better biomedical devices and wearables for solving health challenges.

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Updates and news:

  • ORS 2027-Research Interest Group

    We’re excited to share that the Biomedical Devices and Wearables in Orthopaedic Research Interest Group (RIG) has been accepted by the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS)!

    This is a major milestone for the field. To our knowledge, this RIG will provide the first completely dedicated forum focused on portable and wearable biomedical devices for musculoskeletal health, creating a home for researchers, clinicians, engineers, and industry partners working across wearable technologies, multimodal sensing, artificial intelligence, extended reality, and objective functional assessment. The goal is to foster collaboration, identify unmet clinical needs, and accelerate the translation of emerging biomedical technologies into orthopaedic research and clinical practice.

    We are especially excited about the inaugural session and the outstanding group of speakers joining us:

    • Dr. Ghazal Shabestanipour & Dr. Amirhossein Yazdkhasti, Cedars-Sinai
      Quantifying Fall Risk with the Equi Platform: Plantar Pressure Mapping and Acoustic Muscle Monitoring
    • Dr. Nathan Miner, Massachusetts General Hospital
      X-RAI Vision: Combining Extended Reality and AI for Objective Functional Assessment
    • Jessica Rosendorf, MIT
      Leveraging Wearable Data for Individualized Orthopaedic Assessment
    • Dr. Nao Ito, University of Wisconsin
      Patient-specific tendon loading for the treatment of lower extremity tendon injuries: The current state of shear wave tensiometry technology and clinical applications

    Prof. Joseph H. Schwab and Dr. Hamid Ghaednia Ph.D. are thrilled to organize this RIG and help build a community around what we believe will become an inseparable part of musculoskeletal assessment, research, and ultimately clinical care: objectively quantifying human function using portable biomedical devices and multimodal wearable technologies.

    For us, this is more than a new RIG at ORS. It is an opportunity to help establish portable and wearable biomedical devices as a distinct and growing research area within orthopaedics, and to bring together the people who will shape where this field goes next.

    Feel free to contact us if you like to be cosidered for presenting at the ORS Biomedical Devices and Wearables in Orthopaedic RIG in future!

  • Randal Gift Award

    We are thrilled to be recipients of the Randal Gift Award! A big thank you to Dr. Edward Cho for leading this exciting effort to use the Equi pressure platform as a new approach to studying and objectively quantifying dizziness. We are looking forward to advancing this work at Cedars-Sinai!

  • Chordoma Foundation International Expert Panel, July 2026

    Dr. Joseph Schwab was proud to contribute as a member of the international expert panel that developed the 2026 Global Chordoma Consensus Guidelines, published in JAMA Oncology. Drawing on his experience as a spine oncology surgeon, Dr. Schwab helped shape updated recommendations that reflect today’s advances in multidisciplinary care, precision surgery, and targeted radiation therapy—providing a more personalized, evidence-based approach to treating patients with chordoma.

    To Review Dr. Schwab’s statements and contribution, please visit this MedScape Article: Chordoma Guidance Moves Into Age of Shared Decision-Making, Staging With Molecular Biomarkers

  • Advancing Spine Surgery with Artificial Intelligence, 2026

    In a recent webinar hosted by Artificial Intelligence Surgery Dr. Schwab discusses his research in Wearable Devices to address the question: Has AI Improved Patient Evaluation Before and After Spine Surgery?

    Presenting in succession with Professors Peter Passias, MD , Carlos A. Bagley, MD, and Alan H. Daniels, MD, this webinar covers these expert’s insights on AI’s progress in medicine.

    For Dr. Schwab’s presentation, you can visit AIS’s dedicated page here.

  • Seattle Science Foundation’s Podcast:

    Spine Oncology Debates: AI In Spine Oncology and Beyond Webinar Discussion led by Dr. Joseph Schwab May 4th, 2026
    Joined by Dr. Daniel Sciubba, MD, MBA of Northwell Health and Dr. Mohamed Macki, MD of Cleveland Clinic, this podcast episode covers many of the different ways physicians and companies are using AI and what the potential pitfalls are. This episode, as well as the ongoing series of this podcast, will continue to serve as a resource and reflection point while AI continues to advance in medicine.