Dr. Michael Cox

Orthopedic Surgeon

Employment
  • Starkville Orthopedic Clinic
 2009 - Present

Education
  • Residency, Orthopedic Surgery, Tulane University
    New Orleans, LA
  • M.D., University Medical Center
    Jackson, MS
  • B.S., Biology, Millsaps College
    Jackson, MS
 2004 – 2009

2000 – 2004

1999

Appointments
  • Staff Physician, Oktibbeha County Hospital
    Starkville, MS
  • Staff Physician, North Mississippi Medical Center
    West Point, MS
  • Chief Resident, Tulane Orthopaedics
    New Orleans, LA
 2009 - Present

2009 - Present

2008 – 2009

Certification and Licensures
  • Diplomate - American Board of Orthopedic Surgery
  • State Licenses Held – Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee
  • American Board of Orthopedic Surgeons, Board Certified
 2009 - Present
Active

Professional Membership
  • American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons
  • Mississippi State Medical Association

Publications
  • Segmental Pedicle Screw Fixation With Convex Direct Vertebral Rotation for Correction of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis.
  • Cox MJ, et. Al. Apoptosis in the left ventricle of chronic volume overload causes endocardial endothelial dysfunction in rats. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2002 Apr; 282(4): 1197-205.
  • Sood HS, Cox MJ, et. Al. Generation of nitrotyrosine precedes activation of metalloproteinase in myocardium of hyperhomocysteinemic rats. Antioxid Redox signal. 2002 Oct; 4(5): 799-804.
  • Cox MJ, et. Al. Attenuation of oxidative stress and remodeling by cardiac inhibitor of metalloproteinase protein transfer. Circulation. 2004 May 4; 109(17): 2123-8.
  • Effect of TCP sintering temperatures on MRC-5 fibroblast proliferation and viability. Cox M, Trussell B, Ward J, Tucci M, Benghuzzi H. Biomed Sci Instrum. 2002; 38; 173-8.
  • The effects of TCP fabricated with amino acid binders on the proliferation and viability of fibroblast cells. Ward J, Cox M, Trussell B, Benghuzzi H, Tucci M, Tsao A, Hughes J. Biomed Sci Instrum. 2002; 38: 197-202.
  • Investigating initial cell-seeding density and culture period of fibroblast growing on biodegradable tricalcium phosphate lysine disks. Trussell B, Ward J, Cox M, Tucci M, Benghuzzi H, Hughes J. Biomed Sci Instrum. 2002; 38: 101-6.

Presentations
  • SRS, Hong Kong, July 2008. Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.
  • Louisiana Orthopedic Association, April 2009. Arthroscopic repair of posterolateral rotary instability.