He is an active participant and teacher at the Academic Society for the Spine, and has also helped develop instruments for spinal fusion surgeries. For the past decade, Dr. Girasole has been a member of the Spine Universe website's editorial board. Together with his former patient Cara Hartman, he has developed an exercise regimen which has helped relieve not only his own back pain but his patients' as well. He lives in Fairfield, Connecticut.