Dr. Justin Smith completed the MD, PhD program at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He subsequently completed his neurosurgery residency at the University of California San Francisco and spine surgery fellowships in the areas of spinal deformity and minimally invasive spine surgery. He is currently Harrison Distinguished Professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA and serves as Chief of the Spine Division, Vice Chair for Research, and Director of the Spine Fellowship.

Dr. Smith’s practice is focused on adult spinal surgery and includes cervical and thoracolumbar deformity reconstruction, trauma, degenerative disease, and complex revision surgery. His research interests focus on clinical outcomes of spinal surgery, and he has published extensively in this and other areas, with more than 600 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 1,500 presented abstracts at national and international meetings.