Since 2014, Prof. Cédric Y. Barrey has chaired the Department of Spine and Spinal Cord Surgery, Pierre Wertheimer Hospital, GHE, Hospices Civils de Lyon, and Claude Bernard University of Lyon 1, in Lyon, France. The Spine Team performed around 1000 Spine Surgeries each year, including traumas, degenerative spine, spinal tumors, deformity cases, cervical spine, and intra-dural spinal microsurgery.
Pr. Barrey is particularly involved in the field of biomechanics, adult spinal deformities, sagittal balance disorders, and complex cervical spine surgeries.
His research activities dedicated to spine surgery involved: cervical posterior stabilization, spino-pelvic alignment and sagittal balance, biomechanics of the spine, lumbar dynamic devices, cervical disc prosthesis and spinal cord tumors. In 2008, he was a research fellow at Thomas Jefferson University, Department of Spine Surgery, Pr AR Vaccaro, Philadelphia, USA, and performed a biomechanical PhD thesis on cervical disc prosthesis in 2011 in collaboration with the Laboratory of biomechanics, ENSAM - ARTS et METIERS PARIS TECH, in Paris, with Professor W Skalli as program director.
He is the President of SFCR and a member of other important scientific societies as AO-SPINE, SSE-Eurospine , EANS and CSRS-E. He serves on the Advisory Board of the European Spine Journal and has published many articles (>130) in important international journals.