Albert E. Telfeian
American neurosurgeon
Albert E. Telfeian is an American neurosurgeon specializing in endoscopic spine surgery. He is a founding partner of the Endoscopic Spine Institute of New York (ESINY) and a faculty member in the Department of Neurosurgery at Columbia University. He is known for his work in ultra-minimally invasive endoscopic spine techniques, including awake endoscopic spine procedures.
Early life and education
Telfeian earned his undergraduate degree from Columbia University and his MD and PhD through the combined MD–PhD program at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, graduating in 1993. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in epilepsy electrophysiology at Yale University and a neurosurgical residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2001. He later completed fellowships in spine and functional epilepsy surgery at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois in Switzerland and in pediatric neurosurgery at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Career
Telfeian began his academic career as an assistant professor of neurosurgery at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and later served as an associate professor of neurosurgery at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.
In 2012, he was appointed director of pediatric neurosurgery at Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. At Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital, he became director of minimally invasive endoscopic spine surgery and later director of the Center for Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Spinal Surgery. He also served as Vice Chair for quality improvement in the Department of Neurosurgery and held the rank of associate professor, later Professor, of Neurosurgery at the Warren Alpert Medical School.
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