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 highly rated in 11 conditions, according to our data. 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.
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Locations
215 E 77th St, New York, NY 10075
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
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Areas of Expertise
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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.