Cumhur Oner

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Cumhur Öner obtained in 1980 his Medical Degree in Ankara, Turkey and did his orthopaedic surgery training in Rotterdam between 1987 and 1993. Since 1993 he works as an orthopaedic spine surgeon at the University Medical Centre Utrecht. He obtained his PhD (cum laude) in 1999 from the University of Utrecht. The work for his PhD thesis focused on the diagnostic and prognostic parameters in spinal trauma patients. He is the head of the neuro-orthopaedic spine unit since 2002. Cumhur Öner has actively participated in the foundation of the international Spine Trauma Study Group and is currently member of the steering committee of the Knowledge Forum Trauma of the AOSpine International. He has been involved in clinical spine research as well as the bone and intervertebral disc RM program in the UMC Utrecht. He was the president of the Dutch Spine Society between 2007-2011.

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Surgical versus Non-Surgical Treatment of Thoracolumbar Burst Fractures in Neurologically Intact Patients Marcel F. Dvorak, Cumhur F. Öner, Charlotte Dandurand, Klaus John Schnake, Richard J. Bransford, Eugen Cezar Popescu, Mohammed El-Sharkawi, Shanmuganathan Rajasekaran, Lorin M. Benneker, Greg D. Schroeder, Jin W. Tee, John C. France, Jérôme Paquet, Richard Allen, William F. Lavelle, Miguel Hirschfeld, Spyros Pneumaticos, Emiliano Vialle, Alexander R. Vaccaro
Global Spine Journal, 2025, vol. 16, p.628-638

Validating the Hierarchical Nature of the AO Spine Upper Cervical Spine Injury Classification System Rajkishen Narayanan, Jonathan Dalton, Richard Bransford, Marcel R. Dvorak, Harvinder Singh Chhabra, Andrei F. Joaquim, Mohammad El-Sharkawi, Lorin M. Benneker, Klaus Schnake, Cumhur Oner, Charlotte Dandurand, Jose A. Canseco, Christopher K. Kepler, Alexander R. Vaccaro, Gregory D. Schroeder, Aayush Aryal, Abner Bissoli, Héctor Aceituno, Alhammoud Abduljabbar, Nur Aida Faruk Senan, Alessandro Ramieri, Alon Grundshtein, Alor Nnaemeka, Alvin Pun, Amanda O'Halloran, Amauri Godinho, Amin Henine, Andreas K. Demetriades, Andreas Morakis, Axel Partenheimer, Bernhard W. Ullrich, Yi Ting Liu, Claudio Bernucci, Björn Giera, Carsten Raab, Christian W. Müller, Subramaniam Mac Herla Haribabu, Eugen Cezar Popescu, Daniel Ochieng, Dan Schneider, Darko Perovic, Derek T. Cawley, Devi Prakash Tokala, Andrea Redaelli, Koroush Kabir, Loya Vijay Kumar, Govind Gurumoorthy Prabakaran, Subbiah Jayakumar, Vishal Kumar, Tripathi Manjul, Óscar Enrique Ramirez, Wael Alsammak, Sathish Muthu, Vishwajeet Singh, Anas Dyab, Eduardo Laos, Ehab Shiban, Emiliano Vialle, Federico Sartor, Felipe Santos, Fernando Gonzalez, Fernando Melo Filho, Francisco Verdu-Lopez, Furuya Takeo, Fernando Krywinski, Georg Osterhoff, Giorgio Lofrese, Omar Marroquin, Himanshu Shekhar, Christian Staedt Hohaus, Ivan Marintschev, Joost Rutges, Aithala P. Janardhana, Jeronimo Milano, Joachim Vahl, John Afolayan, M. Jorge Uribe, Ignacio Paleo, Joseph F. Baker, John P. Kleimeyer, Jin Tee, Juan Muñoz, Juan Lourido, Ariel Kaen, Khoh Phaik Shan, Konstantinos Margetis, Konstantinos Paterakis, Lady Lozano Cari, Ahmed Fouad Dawoud, Louis Carius, Luis María Romero-Muñoz, Matias Pereira Duarte, Máximo Alberto Diez-Ulloa, Mario Ganau, Tejeda Martin, Matti Scholz, Mauro Pluderi, Miltiadis Georgiopoulos, Michal Ziga, Luis Duchén, Wongthawat Liawrungrueang, Nicola Montemurro, Naresh Kumar, Rajesh Bahadur Lakhey, Nicolas Lauper, Nimrod Rahamimov, Oliver Riesenbeck, Oke Obadaseraye, Ahmed Abouelhamd, Osmar Moraes, Peter Loughenbury, Parmenion P. Tsitsopoulos, Payman Vahedi, Pedro Bazán, Paulo Pereira, Philippe Bancel, Kamalanathan Palaniandy, Pragnesh Bhatt, Rakan Farouk Y. Bokhari, Rian Souza Vieira, Mohammed Riaz, Richard Menger, Rafael Llombart-Blanco, R. S. Chahal, Ratko Yurac, Samarth Mittal, Welege Wimalachandra, Sandra Hobson, Brian Saway, Sarvdeep Dhatt, Sebastian F. Bigdon, Selim Ayhan, Sergey Mlyavykh, Shaffaf Kareem, Shay Mandler, Slavisa Zagorac, Norah Foster, Zhi Wang, Jun Zhang, Stavridis Stavros I, Stefano Carnesecchi, Stipe Corluka, Sokol Trungu, Takeshi Aoyama, Ron Tamy, Tommi Korhonen, Triantafyllos Bouras, Adetunji Toluse, Wiktor Urbanski, Uri Hadesberg, Petr Vachata, Vishal Borse, Vafa Rahimi Movaghar, Waeel Hamouda, Nanfang Xu, Yasunori Sorimachi, Yuki Fujioka, Zacharia Silk, Gerardo F. Zambito-Brondo
Spine, 2025, vol. 50, p.956-964

Hounsfield unit measurements to predict odontoid fracture union in elderly patients Jeroen Gj Huybregts, Wilco Ch Jacobs, Luc Wf van Haaster, Emma K Ruitenbeek, Mark P Arts, Michael Osti, Willem-Bart M Slooff, F Cumhur Öner, Sasha Gulati, Natasha M Appelman-Dijkstra, Ewout W Steyerberg, Geert J Lycklama À Nijeholt, Wilco C Peul, Carmen LA Vleggeert-Lankamp
The Spine Journal, 2025, vol. 25, p.2785-2791

Toward Identifying and Resolving the Challenges to the Prognostic Validation of the Classifications for Thoracolumbar Burst Fractures Mohamed M. Aly, Mohammad El-Sharkawi, Andrei F. Joaquim, Javier Pizones, Xavier A. Santander Espinoza, Eugen C. Popescu, Abdulaziz Bin Shebreen, Paul Gerdhem, Cumhur F. Öner
Clinical Spine Surgery, 2025, vol. 38, p.266-277

Surgical versus nonsurgical treatment of thoracolumbar burst fractures in neurologically intact patients Charlotte Dandurand, Cumhur F. Öner, Klaus John Schnake, Richard J. Bransford, Greg D. Schroeder, Nicolas Dea, Mark R. Phillips, Alexander Joeris, Mohammad El-Sharkawi, Shanmuganathan Rajasekaran, Lorin M. Benneker, Jin W. Tee, Eugen Cezar Popescu, Jérôme Paquet, John C. France, Alexander R. Vaccaro, Marcel F. Dvorak
Spine Journal, 2025, vol. 25, p.1494-1507

Preventing confounding in observational studies in orthopedic trauma surgery through expert panels Rolf H.H. Groenwold, L. X. van Rossenberg, D. P.J. Smeeing, R. M. Houwert, J. W. Schoones, S. P. J. Muijs, F. C. Oner, Y. de Jong, B. J.M. van de Wall,
European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, 2025, vol. 51

Fellowships & Awards

Anna Award, 2005