Jonathan Hyde, MD is an orthopaedic surgeon with a special interest in spinal surgery as well. Dr. Hyde's expertise is in minimally invasive spine surgery techniques. Besides performing surgical interventions, Dr. Hyde performs diagnostic and therapeutic injections for varying spinal disorders as part of conservative non-operative spinal care. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and is our lead surgeon at Miami Spine Specialists. He is a national and international teacher of the Kyphoplasty, eXtreme Lateral Interbody Fusion (XLIF), and AxiaLIF techniques. He was one of the three designers for the dbrII minimally invasive pedicle screw system, a FDA approved system utilized routinely around the US. He contributed the chapter on Degenerative Disc Disease in the first textbook written for XLIF surgery, published in 2008.