Zachary A. Smith, MD, serves as an assistant professor in neurological surgery at Chicago-based Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
He specializes in minimally invasive spinal surgery for adult degenerative and spine disease, spinal tumors, trauma and spinal column deformity.
Dr. Smith has authored more than 150 articles, book chapters and editorials related to spine. Nature, Neurosurgery and Journal of Neurosurgery, among others, have published his work. Dr. Smith serves on the editorial boards for PlosOne and Operative Neurosurgery.
After earning his medical degree from University of California-Los Angeles, Dr. Smith completed his neurosurgery residency at the same institution. He then completed a minimally invasive surgery fellowship at University of California-Los Angeles and a minimally invasive spine surgery fellowship at Northwestern McGaw.