Dr. Justin K. Scheer is currently a comprehensive spine fellow in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Columbia University in New York City. Prior to this fellowship he completed a residency in Neurological Surgery at the University of California, San Franciso (UCSF).

Since 2008, Dr. Scheer has performed spine related research beginning with cadaver-based spinal biomechanics at UCSF while studying Bioengineering as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley. He then attended UC San Diego School of Medicine and transitioned to spine surgery clinical outcomes research. In 2012 while in medical school, he began working with the ISSG as a statistician and research associate. Since then, he has completed numerous projects with the group including some of the first advanced predictive modeling studies.