Frank Schwab MD is the System Chief of Orthopaedic Spine Surgery at Northwell Health and the Chair of Orthopaedic surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. His clinical practice, research, education, and teaching efforts focus on complex spinal pathology, adult spinal deformity, and revision reconstruction procedures. He has pioneered many aspects of spinal deformity care, especially for patients with extensive surgical histories.

Dr. Schwab is focused on innovating patient-specific operative treatment, optimizing sagittal realignment guidelines, emphasizing the use of pre-operative planning technologies, and techniques for complex spine surgery. His future goals are to build upon the principles of individualized patient needs and translate this into pragmatic guidelines and new best practices for surgeons and patients to use. He remains committed to the education of students, researchers, residents, and fellow surgeons, with an absolute focus on providing the very best care to patients.