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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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]
Dr. Tobert was really instrumental in getting me another test that he felt I needed and he quickly arranged for it to happen at the hospital. He also said that a team of radiologists would look at this test, CAT scan, and he would call me tomorrow regarding the results. So I was very pleased and I felt listened to and yeah, it was a very good ... Read More
Extremely professional, very quick, courteous. Everyone was amazing. I highly recommend going down there. It was very, very good and I explained everything in perfect regular that I knew. So, thank you.
Dr. Tobert finally determined the source of my issues.
Dr. Tobert was extremely caring. He took time to listen to what I had to say. He's a very good explainer. Took time to explain to me the procedures and the alternatives and he seems to be generally concerned and compassionate.
Dr. Tobert was outstanding in every way. I would highly recommend him!
Dr. Tobert listened to everything I had to say, asked many questions about my medical history, and I felt I was being g heard.
Dr. Tobert is wonderful, thorough, considerate, doesn't mind you asking questions, he doesn't mind explaining them step by step. He listens, he's compassionate in a wonderful bedside manner and I think more and more doctors should take a lesson from him.