Justin S Smith, MD
Neurosurgery - Spine
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Bio & Overview
Justin Smith, MD, PhD, is a fellowship-trained spine neurosurgeon with extensive experience performing minimally invasive spine surgery on adults. His practice focuses on:
- Cervical and thoracolumbar deformity reconstruction
- Trauma
- Degenerative disease
- Complex revision spine surgery
Dr. Smith is the Harrison Distinguished Professor in the UVA Department of Neurological Surgery, and he holds several leadership roles at UVA Health:
- Chief of the Spine Division
- Vice Chair for Research
- Director of the Spine Fellowship program
Dr. Smith completed the MD, PhD program at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He completed his neurosurgery residency training at the University of California San Francisco. He then completed spine surgery fellowships in the areas of spinal deformity and minimally invasive spine surgery at the University of Virginia.
His research interests focus on clinical outcomes of spinal surgery. He has published extensively in this and other areas, with more than 600 peer-reviewed manuscripts and more than 1,500 presented abstracts at national and international meetings.
Academic Information
- Department
- Neurosurgery
- Academic Role
- Professor
- Division
- Neurosurgery-Spine
- Research Interests
- Spinal deformity (cervical and thoracolumbar), cervical myelopathy, health economics, and clinical outcomes studies
Conditions & Treatments
- Adult degenerative scoliosis
- Anterior lumbar interbody fusion
- Cervical deformity
- Cervical spinal stenosis
- Degenerative spondylolisthesis
- Flatback syndrome
- Isthmic spondylolisthesis
- Lumbar herniated disc surgery
- Lumbosacral radiculopathy
- Posterior cervical laminectomy and fusion
- Posterior spine surgery
- Scoliosis
- Spinal stenosis
- Spine deformity
- Spine osteotomy
- Spondylosis
- Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- English
- Age Groups Seen
- Adults (21-65)
Older Adults (65+)
- Primary Education
- Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education (2001)
- Residency
- University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine (2007)
- Fellowships
- University of Virginia Medical Center (2007), Northwestern Medicine Prentice Womens Hospital (2008)
- Certification
- American Board of Neurological Surgery (Neurological Surgery)
- Additional Specialties
- Neurosurgery
Highlights
Awards
- 2010-2020 Best Doctors in America® List
- 2014 Best 18 Spine Surgeons in North America, Orthopedics This Week, Inc.
Reviews
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