Center for Neurosciences & Spine Visiting Professor Lectureship

The Center for Neurosciences & Spine Visiting Professor Lectureship invites prominent physicians, scientists and thought leaders in the fields of neurology and neurosurgery to deliver a guest lecture and engage in informal round-table discussions with peers at Virginia Mason. The lectureship aims to foster communication across national and international lines to stimulate innovation, improve practice, and inspire novel clinical, research, and quality initiatives in neuroscience. Its goal is to bring to the Center for Neurosciences & Spine an exceptional senior scholar who can contribute to and enrich the community's research, education, quality and innovation endeavors.

While on site, visiting professors meet with members of the Center for Neurosciences & Spine team for the purpose of discussion and education. They do not have direct patient contact or provide clinical care of any kind. A Virginia Mason provider sponsors every visiting professor and is responsible for directing the professor’s lecture content and arranging round-table participation of mutual interest to the professor and the team. The sponsor serves as the visiting professor’s main contact point during the day of the lectureship.

2025
- CJ Kleck, MD, Chief of the Spine Division, University of Colorado
- Amit Jain, MD, MBA, Chief of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery at Johns Hopkins
- Ahilan Sivaganesan, MD, Spine Surgeon and Director of Research, Hospital for Special Surgery - Naples, Florida
- Michael Bohl, MD, Spine Surgeon, Carolina NeuroSurgery & Spine Associates, North Carolina
- Sheeraz Qureshi, MD, MBA, Co-Chief of Spine, Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), New York

2024
- Serena Hu, MD, Vice Chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and (by courtesy) Neurosurgery, and Chief of the Division of Spine Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine
- Juan Uribe, MD, Chief of the Division of Spinal Disorders, Barrow Neurological Institute, Arizona

2023
- Michael Wang, MD, Director of Neurosurgery, University of Miami, Florida
- Eric Klineberg, MD, Chief of Spine Service, University of California, Davis

2022
- Michael Kelly, MD, Director of Scoliosis and Spinal Deformities, Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego
- Julianne Santarosa, MD, Spinal Access Surgeon, Surgical Elite, Texas
- Vijay Yanamadala, MD, MBA, Medical Director of Spine Quality and Surgical Optimization, Hartford Healthcare, Connecticut

2021
- Todd Albert, MD, Surgeon-in-Chief Emeritus at Hospital for Special Surgery, New York

2019
- Mark Weidenbaum, MD, Director of Spine Optimization Program at New York Presbyterian Hospital
- Dean Chou, MD, Associate Director of the Neurospine Center at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

2018
- Han Jo Kim, MD, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York
- Gregory Mundis Jr., MD, Medical Director, San Diego Center for Spinal Disorders

2017
- Marinus de Kleuver, MD, PhD, Head of Orthopedic Surgery, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- David Polly, Jr., MD, Professor of Neurosurgery and Chief of Spine Service, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

2016
- Michael G. Vitale, MD, MPH, Chief, Pediatric Spine and Scoliosis Surgery, New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital
- John H. Shin, MD, Director, Stereotactic Spine Radiosurgery and Spine Metastases Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital

2015
- Louis G. Jenis, MD, Chief of Spine Surgery, Massachusetts General and Newton-Wellesley Hospitals