Here is a list of spine surgeons and neurosurgeons directing spine-focused fellowship programs at academic centers, hospitals and private practices across the U.S.
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The listing also includes the number of positions available at that fellowship when the information was available.
Todd Alamin, MD. Fellowship Director of Stanford (Calif.) University Orthopaedic Spine Fellowship: 1 position
R. Todd Allen, MD, PhD. Spine Fellowship Director of the University of California, San Diego Fellowship: 2 positions
Howard An, MD. Director of the Rush University Spine Fellowship (Chicago)
Hyun Bae, MD. Spine Fellowship Director at Cedars-Sinai Spine Center (Los Angeles): 2 positions
Carlos Bagley, MD. Program Director of the Duke University Spinal Surgery Fellowship (Durham, N.C.): 1 position
Ravi Bains, MD. Chief of the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Regional Spine Center Fellowship (Oakland)
Nitin Bhatia, MD. Fellowship Co-Director of the University of California, Irvine Spine Fellowship: 2 positions
Christopher Bono, MD. Fellowship Director of the Massachusetts General – Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School Orthopaedic Spine Surgery Fellowship (Boston)
Rick Bransford, MD. Professor and Spine Fellowship Director of the University of Washington / Harborview Mdical Center Spine Fellow (Seattle): 3 orthopedic spine fellows and 1-2 neurosurgery spine fellows
Darrel Brodke, MD. Co-Director of the University of Utah Spine Fellowship (Salt Lake City): 2 positions
Maxwell Boakye, MD. Program Director of the Spine Fellowship in the University of Louisville Department of Neurosurgery: 1 position
Jacob Buchowski, MD. Director of the Washington University School of Medicine / Barnes-Jewish Hospital Spine Fellowship (St. Louis): 4 positions
Michael Chang, MD. Fellowship Director of the Adult Deformity and Spinal Reconstructive Fellowship at Sonoran Spine Center (Phoenix): 1 position
Samuel Cho, MD. Director of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Spine Surgery Fellowship (New York City): 2 positions
Bradford Currier, MD. Director of the Mayo Clinic Spine Fellowship (Rochester, Minn.): 2 positions
Alan Daniels, MD. Co-Director of the Brown University Spine Fellowship (Providence, R.I.): 2 positions
Russell DeMicco, DO. Fellowship Director of Spine Medicine at Cleveland Clinic
Ara Deukmdjian, MD. Deuk Spine Institute Surgery Fellowship (Melbourne, Fla.)
Edward Dohring, MD. Fellowship Director of the Scottsdale Spine Institute of Arizona Spine Surgery Fellowship: 2 positions
Robert Eastlack, MD. Co-Director of the San Diego Spine Fellowship (San Diego): 2 positions
Jeffrey Fischgrund, MD. Director of the Beaumont Health Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Fellowship (Royal Oak, Mich.): 2 positions
Christopher Furey, MD. Fellowship Director of the Spine and Spinal Cord Injury Fellowship at University Hospitals (Cleveland): 1 position
Joseph Gjolaj, MD. Co-Director of the Orthopedic Spine Surgery Fellowship Program at the University of Miami Department of Orthopaedics.
Jeffrey Goldstein, MD. Fellowship Director of the NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital Spine Fellowship (New York City): 5 positions
Jonathan Grauer, MD. Director of the Yale Comprehensive Spine Fellowship (New Haven, Conn.): 1 position
John Heller, MD. Director of the Emory University Spine Fellowship (Atlanta): 4 positions
Patrick Hitchon, MD. University of Iowa Neurosurgery Spine Fellowship (Iowa City)
Alan Hilibrand, MD. Director of the Rothman Institute / TJUH Spine Surgery Fellowship: 4 positions
Matthew Howard III, MD. University of Iowa Neurosurgery Spine Fellowship (Iowa City)
Jayme Hiratzka, MD. Spine Fellowship Director of the Oregon Health & Science University Adult Spine Fellowship (Portland): 2 positions
Michael Janssen, DO. Director of the Scientific and Research Institute Fellowship at the Center for Spinal Disorders (Denver, Colo.)
Khaled Kebaish, MD. Direcotr of The Johns Hopkins Spine Surgery Fellowship (Baltimore, Md.)
Reginald Q. Knight, MD. Fellowship Director of the Bassett Spine Care Institute—Spine Fellowship (Cooperstown, N.Y.): 1 position
Paul Kraemer, MD. Fellowship Director of Indiana Spine Group / Indiana University (Indianapolis): 1 position
William Lavelle, MD. Director of the State University of New York Spinal Surgery Fellowship: 1 position
Brandon Lawrence, MD. Co-Director of the University of Utah Spine Fellowship (Salt Lake City): 2 positions
Yu-Po Lee, MD. Co-Director of the University of California, Irvine Spine Fellowship: 2 positions
Allan Levi, MD, PhD. Training Director of the University of Miami Neurosurgical Spine Fellowship.
Steve Ludwig, MD. Fellowship Director of the University of Maryland Spine Fellowship (Baltimore): 3 positions
Paul McAfee, MD. Director of the Maryland Spinal Reconstruction Surgery Fellowship (Baltimore, Md.): 2 positions
Arnold Menezes, MD. University of Iowa Neurosurgery Spine Fellowship (Iowa City)
R. Alden Milam IV, MD. Co-Director of the OrthoCarolina Spine Center, Presbyterian-Orthopaedic Hospital fellowship (Charlotte, N.C.): 2 positions
Addisu Mesafin, MD. Fellowship Director of the Louis A. Goldstein University of Rochester (N.Y.) Spinal Surgery Fellowship: 1 position
Tom Mroz, MD. Fellowship Director of the Spine Surgery Fellowship at Cleveland Clinic: 3 positions
Kevin Mullaney, MD. Director of the Twin Cities Spine Center Fellowship (Minneapolis): 3 positions
Gregory Mundis Jr., MD. Co-Director of the San Diego Spine Fellowship: 2 positions
Andrew Park, MD. Director of the Dallas Spine and Reconstructive Fellowship: 2 positions
Alpesh Patel, MD. Fellowship Director of McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University Spine Fellowship: 1 position
Srinivas Prasad, MD. Fellowship Director of the Neurosurgical Spine Fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia): 2 positions
K. Daniel Riew, MD. Director of the Columbia Orthopedics Adult and Pediatric Comprehensive Spine Fellowship (New York City): 3 positions
Rajiv Sethi, MD. Program Director of the Seattle Complex Spinal Surgery and Systems Design Fellowship: 1 position
Jeremy Smith, MD. Director of the Hoag Orthopedic Institute Spine Fellowship Program (Irvine, Calif.): 1 position
Leo Spector, MD. Co-Director of the OrthoCarolina Spine Center, Presbyterian-Orthopaedic Hospital fellowship: 2 positions
Bobby K-B Tay, MD. Fellowship Director of the UCSF Spine Fellowship
Tony Tannoury, MD. Fellowship Director of Boston University Medical Center Spine Fellowship.
Suzanne Tharin, MD. Fellowship Director of the VA Palo Alto and Stanford University Combined Neurosurgery Orthopedic Spine Fellowship (Palo Alto, Calif.): 1 position
Steven M. Theiss, MD. Director of University of Alabama Fellowship: 1 position
P. Justin Tortolani, MD. Chief and Fellowship Director of the Spinal Reconstructive Fellowship at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital (Baltimore): 1 position
Vincent Traynelis, MD. Director of Rush University NeuroSpine Fellowship (Chicago)
Steven Tresser, MD. Fellowship Director of the Florida Orthopaedic Institute Spine Fellowship (Tampa, Fla.): 2 positions
Scott Tromanhauser, MD. New England Baptist Hospital Spine Fellowship (Boston): 2 positions
Alexander Vaccaro, MD. President of Rothman Institute (Philadelphia): Director of the spine fellowship program at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Andrew White, MD. Fellowship Director, Orthopaedic Surgery of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School Combined Spine Fellowship (Boston).
Elizabeth Yu, MD. Fellowship Director of the Orthopaedic Spine Felowship at The Ohio State University Wexner Medcial Center (Columbus, Ohio): 1 position