Jon I. White, MD

Dr. Jon White is a board-certified Orthopedic Spine Surgeon who specializes in disorders of the spine. He is fellowship trained in Orthopedic Spine surgery in the treatment of cervical, thoracic and lumbar-sacral degenerative spinal conditions, as well as the management of spinal fractures, infections, tumors and deformities. A significant focus of his practice includes revision surgery for failed prior surgeries requiring various leading surgical techniques and technology.

Dr. White graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree in Microbiology and Immunology. Following his undergraduate studies, he worked as a Senior Research Associate at the Donner Lab, Division of Biophysics, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory at UC Berkeley studying red blood cell membrane rheology under the direction of Professor Howard C. Mel. Several studies were published based on “Rapid Pulse Spectroscopy” (RPS) and Staflo spectroscopy. From there, he completed his medical degree at The University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Then, he completed his surgical internship and orthopaedic surgery residency at the University of California, Irvine where he received the senior resident award for “outstanding research”. Following residency, he completed an orthopedic spine surgery fellowship at Northwestern University in Chicago, Midwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center. This fellowship was under the direction of Paul S. Meyer, Jr, MD and within the Orthopaedic and Neurosurgical departments. He then completed an additional fellowship in complex adult cervical and lumbar degenerative reconstructive surgery at Elmwood Medical Center, New Orleans under the direction of S. Henry LaRocca, MD, editor–in-chief of the Spine journal.

Over the years, Dr. White has maintained a strong interest in academic spine surgery. For over a decade he was a member of the AO Spine faculty, based in Davos, Switzerland, and lectured extensively worldwide on new spine surgery techniques and technology pioneered in Europe and Asia. He has published a book chapter on “Adolescent Pediatric Spine Disorders” and authored or co-authored various publications. He remains active with the spine industry in product development and intellectual property design.

He is a general partner of Orthopaedic Specialty Institute (OSI) of Orange County. Dr. White has lived in the Orange County area since 1990, and has been in practice since 1989.