Babajide Ogunseinde, MD

A Harvard-trained, ABPS board-certified orthopedic spine surgeon, innovator, author, and physician leader.

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Babajide Ogunseinde is a Harvard-trained, ABPS board-certified orthopedic spine surgeon, innovator, author, and physician leader with more than fifteen years of experience and over 8,000 spine procedures. He practices as an independent spine consultant. A summa cum laude graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University and valedictorian of Howard University College of Medicine, he completed his orthopedic surgery residency and his spine fellowship at Harvard.

Ogunseinde pioneered the FDA-cleared posteromedial-to-lateral (PML) technique for sacroiliac joint fusion and founded the PML Mastery digital app. He holds a health care leadership certification from Stanford University and is an MBA and Certified Physician Executive candidate. He serves as an ABPS oral board examiner and codirector of its leadership program, and he is a new Distinguished Fellow of the North American Spine Society and an editorial reviewer for the Journal of Spine Surgery.

His scholarship spans sacroiliac joint dysfunction, minimally invasive spine surgery, outcomes in high-BMI patients, and orthopedic trauma, with work appearing in the Journal of Clinical Spine Surgery, the Journal of Spine Surgery, the Journal of Surgical Case Reports, and the Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics. He is the author of four books spanning surgical innovation, sacroiliac joint disease, faith, leadership, weight loss, and preventive health: Faith and Purpose: The PML Story; SI Joint Dysfunction: The Truth Shall Set You Free; Messages From Our Father: Father's Wisdom; and The Coach Before the Scalpel: A Surgeon and a Coach's Guide to Preventing Obesity, Chronic Back Pain, and the Surgery You Never Needed. He is a 2026 Global Recognition Award recipient and an international invited speaker.

His books and PML resources are available at ogunseindepml.com, and he shares updates on LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube.

Latest articles

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A national hotline could track bias in physician discipline

Babajide Ogunseinde, MD

September 24, 2026Sep 24, 2026

Becoming a physician is one of the longest professional journeys in America. The path typically requires four years of college, four years of medical school, and three to seven or more years of residency and fellowship training. For surgeons, training…

The investment is financial, professional, and deeply personal. Medical graduates routinely carry substantial educational debt, spend thousands of hours studying, take licensing examinations, …

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Hospital peer review needs recusal rules, not assumptions

Babajide Ogunseinde, MD

August 27, 2026Aug 27, 2026

Hospital peer review is one of medicine's most important mechanisms for protecting patients and maintaining professional standards. Physicians possess the clinical expertise necessary to evaluate the work of other physicians, particularly when questions involve complex procedures, specialty-specific judgment, or unusual…

Hospital peer review is one of medicine’s most important mechanisms for protecting patients and maintaining professional standards. Physicians possess the clinical expertise necessary to evaluate the work of other physicians, particularly when questions involve complex procedures, specialty-specific judgment, or unusual complications.

But this structure creates an unavoidable tension. The physicians most qualified to evaluate a colleague may also be the physicians who compete with that colleague for patients, referrals, operating-room access, …

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Is racial bias in physician discipline being measured?

Babajide Ogunseinde, MD

August 24, 2026Aug 24, 2026

The central limitation in evaluating racial parity in physician discipline is not the absence of concern, but the absence of standardized upstream data. Existing national systems primarily capture terminal outcomes. The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB), for example, receives reports of certain adverse clinical-privileges actions, including review actions restricting privileges for more than 30 days and certain surrenders while under investigation. It does not comprehensively capture the discretionary …

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Reforming hospital peer review requires independence

Babajide Ogunseinde, MD

August 18, 2026Aug 18, 2026

An adverse peer-review determination is one of the most consequential events in a physician's professional life. When a hospital revokes clinical privileges or imposes a suspension exceeding thirty days, federal statute mandates a report to the National Practitioner Data Bank…

An adverse peer-review determination is one of the most consequential events in a physician’s professional life. When a hospital revokes clinical privileges or imposes a suspension exceeding thirty days, federal statute mandates a report to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB).

In today’s consolidated health care landscape, an adverse NPDB report is an indelible mark with near-insurmountable consequences. It frequently triggers reciprocal investigations by state licensing boards, prompts malpractice carriers to …

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Physician peer review must balance safety and fairness

Babajide Ogunseinde, MD

August 14, 2026Aug 14, 2026

Medicine is one of the few professions in which a colleague may understand exactly how difficult the journey has been and simultaneously possess enormous influence over whether another physician is permitted to continue that journey. Becoming a physician requires years…

Becoming a physician requires years of education, medical school, residency, examinations, credentialing, sacrifice, and continual professional development. For surgeons, the pathway often includes additional fellowship training and years spent developing technical judgment that cannot be acquired …