Leading Experts in Surgeons who Perform Spinal Fusions

Hyun Bae, MD, is a Spinal Surgeon and Research Director at the Spine Institute at Saint John's Health Center, California. He has expertise in spine surgery, including disc replacement, kyphoplasty, dynesis, minimally invasive surgery, and spinal fusion. Dr. Bae is an investigator in the clinical FDA...

Alexander Bailey, MD, is a board certified Associate Spine Surgeon at the Heartland Hand & Spine Orthopedic Center, Kansas. Dr. Bailey practices at three area hospitals including a privately owned specialty hospital. He specializes in all forms of adult spinal interventions of the cervical, thoracic,...

Renato Bosita, MD, MBA, is a spine surgeon at Texas Back Institute. His areas of expertise include operative and non-operative treatment of spine problems, including sciatica, herniated disks, internal disk derangement, and spinal stenosis. He is well versed in multiple surgical techniques, including...

Jeffrey Goldstein, MD, is Director of the Spine Service and Associate Director of the Spine Fellowship at NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases. Dr. Goldstein is Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at NYU School of Medicine. His surgical interests include spine surgery, including newer minimally-invasive...

Russel Huang, MD, is an Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery, and Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Huang’s clinical interests are minimally invasive surgical techniques, lumbar stenosis...

Luc Jasmin, MD, PhD, is an Attending Neurosurgeon and Research Scientist at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Dr. Jasmin is involved in a surgical practice and research centered on the treatment of pain and spinal disorders. His clinical work includes cancer spinal surgery as well as treating...

Wayel Kaakaji, MD, is the Chief Executive Officer and Medical Director at the Spinal and Neurosurgical Institute. He has expertise in the management of brain and spine tumors and movement disorder surgery such as deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease. Dr. Kaakaji has interest in surgical pain...

Choll Kim, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of California, San Diego. He is a fellowship trained spine surgeon from the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Kim performs spine surgeries in the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine and has specialty interest in spine reconstruction...

Rafael Levin, MD, is a Board Certified Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon at Comprehensive Spine Care in New Jersey. Dr. Levin is an expert in lumbar and cervical disc replacements and minimally invasive decompression and fusion surgery. His clinical research interests are in degenerative, deformity, trauma,...

Samir Mehta, MD, is an Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylavnia. Previously, he was an Instructor at Harborview Medical Center, and Orthopaedic Surgeon and Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in the Division of Orthopaedic Trauma at the University of Pennsylvania...

Derek Ochiai, MD, is an Orthopedic Surgeon and Attending Physician at the Nirschl Orthopedic Group in Northern Virginia. He is Associate Director of the Nirschl Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Fellowship. Dr. Ochiai also has experience in fracture care, total joint replacement, pediatrics and spine, and...

Alexander Vaccaro, MD,PhD is a Professor and Attending Surgeon in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Neurosurgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Dr. Vaccaro has done extensive research on a broad range of topics related to disorders of the spine and has over 500 publications in both...