Justin S Smith, MD
Neurosurgery
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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
- Academic Role
- Professor
- Research Interests
- Spinal deformity (cervical and thoracolumbar), cervical myelopathy, health economics, and clinical outcomes studies
Conditions & Treatments
- Adult degenerative scoliosis
- Anterior lumbar interbody fusion
- Anterior spine surgery
- Artificial disc replacement surgery in the cervical spine
- Artificial disc replacement surgery in the lumbar spine
- Back surgery
- Cervical herniated disc
- Cervical herniated disc surgery
- Cervical myelopathy
- Cervical spine fracture
- Cervical spine surgery
- Complex spine deformities
- Complex spine surgery
- Compression fracture
- Decompression laminectomy
- Degenerative joint disease of the spine
- Disc surgery
- Diskectomy
- Herniated disc surgery
- Image guided biopsy of the spine
- Interspinous device placement
- Isthmic spondylolisthesis
- Low back surgery
- Lumbar herniated disc surgery
- Lumbosacral radiculopathy
- Mazor x surgery for spinal stenosis
- Minimally invasive spine surgery
- Multilevel cervical arthroplasty
- Navigation spine surgery
- Posterior cervical laminectomy and fusion
- Posterior lumbar spine fusion
- Posterior lumbar spine surgery
- Posterior spine surgery
- Scoliosis surgery
- Spinal cord compression
- Spinal cord stimulator
- Spinal stenosis
- Spinal stenosis surgery
- Spine fusion
- Spine tumor
- Spondylosis surgery
- Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- English
- Age Groups Seen
- Adults (21-65)
Older Adults (65+)
- Primary Education
- Mayo Medical School
- Residency
- University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
- Fellowships
- University of Virginia School of Medicine, Northwestern University
- Certification
- American Board of Neurological Surgery (Neurological Surgery)
Highlights
Awards
- 2010-2020 Best Doctors in America® List
- 2014 Best 18 Spine Surgeons in North America, Orthopedics This Week, Inc.
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