
Overview
Dr. Albert Telfeian is a board-certified neurosurgeon and a pioneer in endoscopic spine surgery. He is the most published surgeon in the Western hemisphere in the field of endoscopic spine surgery and internationally recognized for performing the world’s first awake endoscopic spine tumor surgery.Dr. Telfeian is responsible for countless advances in the field of minimally invasive spine surgery.
Dr. Telfeian received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University and his M.D. and Ph.D. Degrees from the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University. He completed his neurosurgery training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and his spine fellowship in Switzerland at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Vaudois. Dr. Telfeian was an Assistant Professor at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and a Full Professor, Vice Chairman and Director of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery at Brown University prior to founding the Endoscopic Spine Institute of New York. Dr. Telfeian currently serves on the clinical faculty in the Neurosurgery Department at Columbia Presbyterian.
Dr. Telfeian is best known for his groundbreaking work in awake endoscopic surgery and for expanding access to ultra-minimally invasive procedures globally.
Clinical Expertise
Board-certified neurosurgeon with expertise in both pediatric and adult spine surgery.
Performs awake endoscopic lumbar procedures, a field he helped pioneer globally.
Special clinical focus on lumbar forami.
Dr. Telfeian is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Spondylolisthesis. His top areas of expertise are Herniated Disk, Spondylolisthesis, Foot Drop, Laminectomy, and Endoscopy.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 159 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 9 articles in the study of Spondylolisthesis.
Insurance
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Locations
215 E 77th St, New York, NY 10075
1202 Troy-Schenectady Rd, Latham, NY 12110
Additional Areas of Focus
Dr. Telfeian has provided the following conditions as areas of focus. Please note that we may not have enough data to validate their experience in some of these conditions.
Clinical Research
Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.
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John Knightly, a long-standing member of the medical staffs at Morristown Memorial Medical Center and Overlook Medical Center, is a practicing neurosurgeon with 30 years of experience and a subspecialty interest in minimally invasive and complex spine surgery. He is the Past-President, Atlantic Neurosurgical Specialists and Altair Health as well as Chief of Quality, Atlantic Neuroscience Institute. He currently serves as the Vice President of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) as well as Chairman of the Neurosurgical Quality Council of the AANS/CNS Washington Committee.A multi-timed named Castle Connelly Top-Doctor recipient, both regionally and nationally, his other areas of specialty interest and research include health care policy, outcomes and registry science, and quality improvement on which he has published extensively. He has served as Chair of the Joint Section on Disorders of Spine and Peripheral Nerves for the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS)/Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) as well as chair of the of the Quality Improvement Workforce of the AANS/CNS and the AANS representative to the AANS/CNS Washington Committee. Dr Knightly has also served as an unaffiliated neurosurgical consultant for the NFL.On a national basis, Dr Knightly is a Past Chairman, Board of Directors, for NeuroPoint Alliance and was appointed a founding member of the executive committee of the newly created American Spinal Registry (ASR) on which he still serves. He is a former Vice-Chairman and Director on the American Board of Neurological Surgeons (ABNS) and has had appointments on several committees within the AANS, American College of Surgeons as well as the National Quality Forum.Dr Knightly’s primary passion is the care of his patients, maximizing the care he gives to his patients striving to perform the right care, for the right patient at the right time. Dr. Knightly is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Spondylolisthesis. His top areas of expertise are Spondylolisthesis, Cervical Myelopathy, Cervical Spondylosis, Laminectomy, and Spinal Fusion.
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Federico Girardi is an Orthopedics provider in New York, New York. Dr. Girardi is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Spondylolisthesis. His top areas of expertise are Spondylolisthesis, Spinal Stenosis, Invertebral Disc Disease, Spinal Fusion, and Laminectomy.
Areas of Expertise
MediFind evaluates expertise by pulling from factors such as number of articles a doctor has published in medical journals, participation in clinical trials, speaking at industry conferences, prescribing and referral patterns, and strength of connections with other experts in their field.
Learn more about MediFind’s expert tiers
- Elite
- Herniated DiskDr. Telfeian isElite. Learn about Herniated Disk.
- Distinguished
- EndoscopyDr. Telfeian isDistinguished. Learn about Endoscopy.
- LaminectomyDr. Telfeian isDistinguished. Learn about Laminectomy.
- Advanced
- Foot DropDr. Telfeian isAdvanced. Learn about Foot Drop.
- Herniated Disc SurgeryDr. Telfeian isAdvanced. Learn about Herniated Disc Surgery.
- Invertebral Disc DiseaseDr. Telfeian isAdvanced. Learn about Invertebral Disc Disease.
- MicrodiscectomyDr. Telfeian isAdvanced. Learn about Microdiscectomy.
- RhizotomyDr. Telfeian isAdvanced. Learn about Rhizotomy.
- Spinal FusionDr. Telfeian isAdvanced. Learn about Spinal Fusion.
- Experienced
- Acute PainDr. Telfeian isExperienced. Learn about Acute Pain.
- Bone GraftDr. Telfeian isExperienced. Learn about Bone Graft.
- Bone TumorDr. Telfeian isExperienced. Learn about Bone Tumor.
- Cervical Disc SurgeryDr. Telfeian isExperienced. Learn about Cervical Disc Surgery.
- ChondrosarcomaDr. Telfeian isExperienced. Learn about Chondrosarcoma.
- ChordomaDr. Telfeian isExperienced. Learn about Chordoma.
