Bassel Diebo, MD

Bassel Diebo, MD

Dr. Bassel Diebo is a Spine and Scoliosis Surgeon and the Director of Spine Research and Innovation at Brown University. Dr. Diebo treats all spine disorders and scoliosis conditions across adolescence and adulthood, including degenerative spinal conditions (stenosis and spondylolisthesis), and spinal curvatures such as scoliosis, kyphosis, and lordosis. His areas of focus are complex and revision spinal reconstruction, flatback syndrome, adolescent and adult scoliosis, Hip-Spine Syndrome, full-body three-dimensional alignment, and posture.

Dr. Diebo is one of the most published spine surgeons of his generation with more than 260 publications at the National Library of Medicine and upward of 1,000 podium presentations, books, and chapters under his name. Among multiple recognitions, Dr. Diebo was the recipient of Brown University’s Lucas-Palumbo Award for Excellence in Orthopaedic Spine Surgery; named one of Becker’s Spine Review’s “Ten Spine Surgeons Under 45 to Know” in 2022; and in 2020 he was listed among North American Spine Society’s “20 under 40.”

Dr. Diebo completed his residency in orthopedic surgery at State University of New York in Brooklyn. He completed research fellowships in spine surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery and NYU Langone Medical Center's Hospital for Joint Diseases, both in New York. Most recently, Dr. Diebo completed a fellowship in complex adolescent and adult spine and scoliosis surgery at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and is the inaugural traveling fellow of the International Spine Study Group (ISSG).