Dr. Dan Tobert is a board-certified, fellowship-trained orthopaedic spine surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in the treatment of adult spinal disorders. He received a BS degree from Hope College, majoring in Chemistry. He subsequently received a MD degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He trained in orthopaedic surgery at the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program before undergoing sub-specialization training in spine surgery at the University of Utah. This fellowship with a renowned group of spine surgeons specifically focused on surgical management of complex spinal disorders.
Dr. Tobert's clinical interests are degenerative disorders and spine oncology. Through multidisciplinary collaborations with the Center for Sarcoma and Cancer Center at Mass General, he treats patients with primary and metastatic tumors of the spinal column and sacrum. Additionally, he treats patients for more common conditions such as stenosis, spondylolisthesis and disc herniations in the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine. His primary goal is to provide excellent patient care on an individual basis.
Dr. Tobert is actively engaged in research efforts on degenerative and oncologic disorders to improve patient care. Additionally, he focuses on understanding contemporary patient-reported outcome measures to optimize patient care. He is an active member of the spine research community as a member of numerous academic spine societies and sits on the editorial board of Spine. He believes clinical research forms the foundation for empathic and individualized patient care.
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Orthopaedic Spine Service
55 Fruit St.
Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care
Suite 3A
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-724-8636
Orthopaedic Spine Service at Newton-Wellesley Hospital
159 Wells Ave.
Newton, MA 02459
Phone: 617-724-8636
Mass General Brigham Healthcare Center at Foxborough
22 Patriot Place
Foxboro, MA 02035
Phone: 617-724-8636
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Dr. Tobert's primary research focus is optimizing patient outcomes through improved decision making. Specifically, this involves utilizing improved metrics and statistical techniques to better understand which patients benefit from surgical or non-surgical treatments.
Dr. Tobert is a Principal Investigator in the the Orthopaedic Augmentation, Surgical Innovation, and Interactive Systems Lab (OASIIS). Dr. Tobert is working on projects related to the Mass General Brigham orthopedic registry. As part of this work, Dr. Tobert and his team have developed dashboards that allow a surgeon to assess and address their own surgical outcomes in real-time.
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I feel very safe and happy with this provider ... I like his plan of action that he explained along with Dr [redacted]
Dr Tobert was very helpful and cared about the proposed surgery. My wife had back surgery by Dr Tobert and was pleased by his performance.
Dr. Tobert was absolutely fantastic. I got there early and they were able to take me early. The whole process at Mass General was just phenomenal from the greeters at the admissions to I mean for the x-rays that I had to take, the people were, I had the person take me directly to where I needed to go, take me, you know, tell me exactly how to get ... Read More
Aside from parking (I got confused and ended up in a different parking garage), my experience at MGB was very positive.
The doctor was very personable, very explicit in his discussion about the symptoms and the action required to overcome some of those symptoms. I felt extremely comfortable. He was very professional, but also very empathetic and very personable.
Yes, Dr. Tobert has been wonderful. He did the surgery on me and I have had no issues since the surgery. Complete cure. So thank you very much Dr. Tobert.
PA [redacted] was very good at exam and establishing a comfort level for my visit. Dr Tobert was extremely helpful with explaining all symptoms and how they were related or not. He took the time to listen and helped me with direction for all my symptoms.
Dr. Tobert was so kind, compassionate, and sensitive to my mom who is originally from India, and adept in helping her understand things in simple terms as she is not well educated. Dr. Tobert also offered relief and reassurance for her health condition, offering to go the extra mile for her as she proceeds, possibly towards having a surgery with ... Read More
he is superb
Hi, my experience was great, but I only had a pre-operation telephone call. Dr. Tobert was very prompt in his call, answered all of my questions very thoroughly and very completely and took all kinds of time, patient with his responses. [redacted]