A nationally recognized spinal specialist, Michael Hasz, MD, FACS, is a spinal surgeon at the Hasz Spine Institute in Reston, Virginia, and was listed among the country's top 1 percent of physicians in his specialty by US News & World Report. A former major in the US Air Force, Dr. Hasz was chairman of the department of orthopaedic surgery and director of spinal surgery at the Andrews Air Force Base/Malcolm Grow Medical Clinics and Surgery Center. He currently holds an appointment as clinical instructor of orthopaedic surgery and assistant professor of surgery at the Uniformed Services University of Health Science in Bethesda, Maryland.