Credentials

Education

• Bachelor of Science, Physics and Chemistry, Highest Honors, University of California, Davis
• Medical School, University of California, Los Angeles
• PhD Biochemistry, Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences
• Orthopedic Residency/Internship, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
• Fellowship, Woodridge Orthopaedic and Spine Center PC/
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
• Fellowship, Florida Neck and Back Institute PA and Research Institute International,
Gainesville, Florida

Board Status

• Board Certified, American Board of Orthopedic Surgery

Private Practice

• The Florida Knee and Orthopedic Centers; Clearwater, St. Petersburg, Palm Harbor, 2004 to present
• Diagnostic Clinic, Largo, Florida, 2002 to 2004

Hospitals

• Largo Medical Center, Largo, Florida 2002 to present

Awards/Honors

• Phi Beta Kappa
• David Saxon Award, undergraduate excellence in physics
• Victor E. Hall Scholarship, Outstanding Achievement in Physiology

Bibliography

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The Effect of Short-Term Treatment with Vitamin D Metabolites on Bone Lipid and Mineral Composition in Healing Vitamin D Deficient Rats. Bone 9: 309-318 (1988)

2. Donnelly RE, Boskey AL. The Effect of Gallium Salts on Seeded
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8. Donnelly R, Bockman RS, Doty SB, Boskey AL. Bone Particles FromGallium Treated Rats Are Resistant to Resorption In Vivo. Bone and Mineral 12:167-179(1991)

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10. Dwyer TF, O'Brien MF, DeWald C, Gelb DG, Flawn LB, Lowe TG, Donnelly RE: Traumatic
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11. O'Brien MF, Lowe TG, Wood JB, Eule J, Dwyer TF, Donnelly RE, Smith DAB: Transition Zone Syndrome: latrogenic Sequela of Surgery or Natural History?, [paper] 8th International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques. Paradise Island, Bahamas, July 2001.

12. Donnelly RE, O'Brien MF, Dwyer TF, Lowe TG, Polly DW, Lenke LG, Smith DAB: Posterior Fixation in the Thoracic Spine: A Biomechanical Evaluation of Screw Versus Hook Constructs, [e-poster] 8th International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques, Paradise Island, Bahamas, July 2001.

13. Robert E. Donnelly MD, Michael F. O'Brien MD, Paul R. Alongi MD, Thomas G. Lowe MD, Thomas F. Dwyer MD: Posterior Hemivertebrae Resection for Congenital Kyphoscoliosis: A Technique, Scoliosis Research Society Meeting 35th Annual Meeting. Cairns, Australia, October 2000.

14. Robert E. Donnelly MD, David A.B. Smith MSc, Michael F. O'Brien MD, Thomas G. Lowe MD, David G. Fitzgerald BSME, The Biomechanical Properties of Fresh-Frozen Human Vertebral Bodies: Considerations for Use as Allograft Interbody Spacers in Cervical Spinal Reconstruction, Cervical Spine Research Society Meeting. Charleston, South Carolina, November 2000.

15. Robert E. Donnelly MD, Michael F. O'Brien MD, Douglas Dart MD, Thomas G. Lowe MD, Thomas F. Dwyer MD: Dysphagia after Multilevel Cervical Arthrodesis: A Clinical and Cineradiographic Evaluation, Cervical Spine Research Society Meeting. Monterey, California, November 2001.