Fellow and Graduates
Fellows of Cedars-Sinai's Spinal Surgery Fellowship Program have gone on to serve as neurosurgical and orthopedic surgeons in private practice and academic settings.
Fellows
- Name: Anirudh Gowd
Medical School: Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Residency: Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center - Name: Andrew Moon
Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine
Residency: Tufts Affilliated Hospitals Orthopaedic Surgery - Name: Romil Shah
Medical School: Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
Residency: University of Texas, Austin - Name: Vivian Chen
Medical School: University of Toronto
Residency: University of Alberta
- Name: James Caruso
Medical School: University of Virginia School of Medicine
Residency: UT Southwestern Medical Center/Parkland Memorial Hospital - Name: David Jun Ho Chung
Medical School: Loma Linda University School Medicine
Residency: Loma Linda University Health - Name: Stuart Changoor
Medical School: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Residency: St. Joseph’s University Medical Center - Name: Shahed Elhamdani
Medical School: Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine
Residency: Allegheny Health Network
- Name: Alexander Chartrain
Medical School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Residency: University of Southern California - Name: James Parrish
Medical School: University of Miami
Residency: University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital - Name: Marty Sree Vemu
Medical School: University of Texas, Houston
Residency: Houston Methodist Hospital
Graduates
- Cameron Murphy, MD
- Karim Shafi, MD
- Justin Cohen, MD
- Rohan Desai, MD
- Christopher Sy, MD
- Arash Sayari, MD
- Hurtis Tullos, MD
- George Hanna, MD
- Andrew Trontis, MD
- Blake A. Burket, MD
- Robert C. Ryu, MD
- Alisa Alayan, MD
- Michael McGinity, MD
- Robert Ravinsky, MD
- Saqib Hasan, MD
- Ajit Jada, MD
- Christopher Y. Kong, MD
- Victor P. Lo, MD
- Jason M. Cuellar, MD
- Justin Millard, MD
- Zeeshan Sardar, MD
Columbia Orthopedics, New York, New York - Andrea Simmonds, MD
BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
- Ashley Simela, DO
Bronx, New York
- Harvinder Bedi, MD
CORE Institute, Arizona
- M. Kamran Khan, DO
Midwestern University, Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine - Ali Shirzadi, MD
Texas Tech University School of Medicine
- Thomas Phillips, MD
Albany Medical College
- Stephen Scibelli, MD
Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine
- Terrence Kim, MD
Cedars-Sinai Spine Center - Paul Salinas, MD
University of Texas Medical School at Houston - J. Scott Schoeb, MD
George Washington University School of Medicine
- Gowriharan "Ty" Thaiyananthan, MD
BASIC Spine, Orange County, California - Richard Wupperman, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center - Curt Freudenberger, MD
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
- Kevin Ammar, MD
Neurological Associates of Savannah - Eli Baron, MD
Cedars-Sinai Spine Center - Ramin Rabbani, MD
University of California, San Diego
- Tooraj Gravori, MD
UCLA - Anthony Hadden, MD
Loma Linda University Medical Center in Loma Linda, California - Stephan Kasimian, MD
Glendale Adventist in Glendale, California - Mukesh Misra, MD
University of Illinois at Chicago - Justin Paquette, MD
- Edward Rustamzadeh, MD
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- Khawar Siddique, MD
Private practice - John Hamilton, MD
Private practice in New York City - Hooman Melamed, MD
Private practice in Los Angeles - Brian Perri, DO
Private practice - Adetokunbo Oyelese, MD
Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island
- Karin Swartz, MD
University of Kentucky, Lexington - Chris Lycette, MD
Private practice in Allentown, Pennsylvania - Saad Khairi, MD
University of Indianapolis, Indiana - S. Craig Meyer, MD
Private practice in Los Gatos, California - Hamid Miraliakbar, MD
Tri-City Regional Medical Center
- Firooz Amjadi, MD
Kern Bone and Joint Specialists in Bakersfield, California - Darren Bergey, MD
Bergey Spine in Colton, California - Mark Wolgin, MD
Orthopaedic Associates in Albany, Georgia
- John Stokes, MD
Private practice in Austin, Texas - Alan T. Villavicencio, MD
Private practice in Denver, Colorado - Paul Liu, MD
Kaiser Permanente in Fontana, California
- Naresh Patel, MD
Mayo Clinic-Arizona in Scottsdale - Neill Wright, MD
Washington University at St. Louis, Missouri - Jae Lim, MD
Private practice in Spokane, Washington
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