Faculty of the Spinal Surgery Fellowship Program

Fellows in the Spinal Surgery Fellowship Program are trained by renowned surgeons at the Cedars-Sinai Institute for Spinal Disorders.

The teaching faculty is committed to scholarly activity as demonstrated by their attendance at national and international meetings and by their publications in the major neurosurgical and orthopedic peer-reviewed journals.

Serving as faculty for the fellowship program are:

Neel Anand, MD
Director, Orthopedic Spine Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Institute for Spinal Disorders
Co-Director, Neurosurgical and Orthopedic Spine Fellowship

  • Orthopedic residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at The Bronx-Lebanon Hospital
  • Spine surgery fellowship, Texas Back Institute
Robert Bernstein, MD
Director, Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Orthopedic Center
  • Orthopedic residency, Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Progam, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
  • Fellowship in pediatric orthopedics, Children's Hospital, Boston
  • Fellowship in spine surgery,Beth Israel Hospital, Boston
Robert Bray, MD
Founding Director, Cedars-Sinai Institute for Spinal Disorders
  • Neurosurgical residency, Baylor Affiliated Hospitals
Marshall Grode, MD
Attending Surgeon, Cedars-Sinai Institute for Spinal Disorders
Clinical Chairman, Division of Neurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Neurosurgery, University of California at Los Angeles
  • Neurosurgical residency at Neurological Institute at Columbia-Presbyterian, New York City, NY
Thomas Hedman, PhD
Director, Biomechanics and Spinal Research, Cedars-Sinai Institute for Spinal Disorders
  • Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, USC
  • Master's degree from Massachusetts Institute for Technology
  • Doctorate degree, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Leonel Hunt, MD
Director, Spine Trauma, Cedars-Sinai Institute for Spinal Disorders
  • Orthopedic surgery residency at St. Mary's Medical Center, San Francisco
  • Fellowship in spine surgery at San Diego Center for Spinal Disorders, La Jolla
J. Patrick Johnson, MD
Director, Cedars-Sinai Institute for Spinal Disorders
Director, Neurosurgical and Orthopedic Spine Fellowship
  • Neurosurgical residency at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  • Spine Surgery Fellowship, University of Tennessee
  • Neurology/Neurosurgery Fellowship, Queen's Square, London, England
Robert Pashman, MD
Director, Scoliosis and Spinal Deformity, Cedars-Sinai Institute for Spinal Disorders
Co-Director, Neurosurgical and Orthopedic Spine Fellowship
  • Orthopedic residency at St. Mary's Hospital in San Francisco
  • Spine Disorders Service at University of California, San Francisco
Brian Perri, DO
Associate Director, Orthopedic Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Institute for Spinal Disorders
  • Orthopedic residency at Pinnacle Health Systems in Hershey, Pennsylvania
  • Spine Surgery Fellowship, Cedars-Sinai Institute for Spinal Disorders
Khawar Siddique, MD
Associate Director, Neurological Spine Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Institute for Spinal Disorders
  • Neurosurgical residency at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria
  • Spine Surgery Fellowship, Cedars-Sinai Institute for Spinal Disorders