Dr. Yi Lu

Dr. Lu is a spine surgeon and an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery. Additionally, Dr. Lu serves as the Director of Neurosurgical Trauma at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Lu completed medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He went on to complete his training at Boston Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and he completed his Spine Fellowship at the University of Miami Department of Neurosurgery.Dr Lu’s clinical practice is focused on minimally invasive spine surgery, spinal deformity and scoliosis correction, spinal tumor (primary and metastasis, and spinal trauma. His research involves spinal cord injury, namely the axon regeneration and locomotion recovery after spinal cord injury. Dr. Lu is committed to putting his patients first and treating his patients as if they were his own family.

Dr. Lu is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Vertebroplasty. His top areas of expertise are Spinal Stenosis, Scoliosis, Spondylolisthesis, Laminectomy, and Microdiscectomy.

His clinical research consists of co-authoring 77 peer reviewed articles and participating in 5 clinical trials. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 1 article in the study of Vertebroplasty.