Mark C. Gillespy, M.D.

About Dr. Mark C. Gillespy

Dr. Mark C. Gillespy is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon and a longtime resident of the Daytona Beach area. He is the son of Dr. Thurman Gillespy Jr., who founded The Orthopedic Clinic in 1961, and joined the practice his father started after completing his residency at the University of Florida.

Dr. Gillespy is passionate about developing and perfecting innovative methods to treat his patients so they experience shorter hospitalizations or outpatient procedures with faster recovery times.

His total hip replacement surgeries are performed through a direct anterior approach, which avoids cutting any hip muscles. He uses intraoperative computerized navigation and has adopted the “bikini” incision which heals quickly and leaves a cosmetically favorable scar. He performs knee replacement surgery using Kinematic Alignment techniques and computerized navigation with robotic assistance.

He has perfected minimally invasive approaches to help patients with spinal disc conditions, spinal fractures, and spinal fusion surgeries.

For his lumbar decompression surgeries (herniated disc, spinal stenosis), his minimally invasive techniques utilize a dilation port and microscope. He was the first surgeon in the State of Florida to offer patients the Barricaid device, which has been shown to significantly reduce the risk of a recurrent herniation in patients following lumbar discectomy.

Clinical Expertise:

• Spine: Cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spinal operations; spinal decompression and fusions; cervical disc arthroplasty; kyphoplasty treatment of spinal fractures
• Knee: Arthroscopic surgery of the knee, partial and total knee joint replacements
• Hip: Anterior total hip joint replacements, Birmingham Hip Resurfacing