Meet Our Spine Center Team

Andrew Hecht, MD, Chief of Spine Surgery and Director of Spine Center
Dr. Hecht is the Chief of Spine Surgery for the Mount Sinai Health System and Director of the Spine Center at Mount Sinai in the Leni and Peter W. May Department of Orthopedics. Dr. Hecht is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and completed his orthopedic surgery residency at Harvard Medical School as well as a trauma fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Spine Surgeons - Orthopedics

Samuel Cho, MD
Dr. Cho has dual appointment as Assistant Professor of Spinal Surgery in the Leni and Peter W. May Department of Orthopedics and the Department of Neurosurgery at The Mount Sinai Hospital.

Saad Chaudhary, MD
Dr. Chaudhary is a board certified spine surgeon with a special focus on minimally invasive and endoscopic spine surgery. He trained at the world renowned Cleveland Clinic, where he received his fellowship in both Orthopedic and Neurosurgical spine techniques. Dr. Chaudhary offers a comprehensive patient experience with treatment options customized for each individual’s lifestyle and goals. He offers a complete spectrum of spine care plans from endoscopic and minimally invasive options to larger reconstructions and revision surgeries.

Paul Kuflik, MD
Dr. Kuflik performs spine surgery for numerous spinal conditions, on both children and adults, including scoliosis and other spinal deformities; degenerative and traumatic conditions of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine; cervical myelopathy; spinal stenosis; herniated discs; and spondylolisthesis

James D. Lin, MD
Dr. James D. Lin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery. Dr. Lin specializes in both minimally invasive and open surgical techniques to treat spinal disorders of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine. His clinical interests include adolescent and adult spinal deformity (scoliosis, kyphosis, flatback syndrome, revision surgery), cervical spine disease (disc herniation, myelopathy, OPLL), lumbar spinal pathologies, and spinal tumors. He has expertise in cervical disc replacement, outpatient surgery, robotic spine surgery, and computer navigation assisted spine surgery.

Baron Lonner, MD
Dr. Baron Lonner is a Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Lonner’s central clinical interest is caring for patients with scoliosis and other spinal deformities using both operative and nonoperative treatments. His approach to patients and their families is a holistic one in which the patient’s quality of life, values, and perspective is at the forefront of decision-making about the patient’s treatment options.

Wesley H. Bronson, MD
Dr. Wesley H. Bronson is an orthopedic spine surgeon for the Mount Sinai Health System and serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery. His practice covers a wide range of spinal conditions with particular interests in minimally invasive spine surgery techniques as well as complex, revision spinal surgery.

Michael Neuwirth, MD
Dr. Neuwirth is a Professor of Orthopedics at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Spine Surgeons - Neurosurgery

John Caridi, MD
Dr. Caridi’s broad experience gives him a particular expertise in treating patients who are affected by a wide variety of disease of the spinal column and the central nervous system.

Tanvir Choudhri, MD
Dr. Choudhri is Co-Director of the Neurosurgery Spine Program in the Mount Sinai Department of Neurological Surgery. 

Physiatrists

Stuart Kahn, MD
Dr. Kahn holds dual appointments in the Leni and Peter W. May Department of Orthopedics and the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Eugene Bulkin, MD
Dr. Bulkin is a spine specialist whose areas of expertise encompass non-surgical evaluation and treatment of spine and spine-related conditions.

Alexander Lee, MD
Dr. Lee is an Assistant Professor dually appointed in the Department of Orthopedics and the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Joseph Bax DO 
Joseph Bax, DO is an Assistant Professor dually appointed in the Department of Orthopedics and the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the Mount Sinai Health System. 

Chiropractor

Bradley Grossman, DC
Dr. Grossman is the first member of the complementary care community invited to join the Leni and Peter W. May Department of Orthopedics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai School and the Spine Center at The Mount Sinai Hospital.