Robert F. Heary, MD, is the director of the Spine Center of New Jersey, director of the neurosurgical intensive care unit and a professor of neurosurgery at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark. He is also an attending neurosurgeon at University Hospital in Newark, Jersey City (N.J.) Medical Center, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Mountainside Hospital in Montclair, N.J.
He is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, AANS/CNS Joint Section of Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves, and currently serves as the president-elect of the Cervical Spine Research Society.
Dr. Heary has a professional interest in spinal cord injury, peripheral nerve injury and brain injury. His research interests include revision spine surgery, minimally invasive spinal surgery, spinal cord injury, spinal cord tumors, spinal deformity and spinal biomechanics. He has won a wide array of awards, including the best clinical poster award at the Scoliosis Research Society Annual Meeting in 2013.
Dr. Heary has authored more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles, 100 abstracts and 35 book chapters. He serves on the editorial boards of Neurosurgery, World Neurosurgery and Journal of Spinal Disorders & Techniques. He serves as an assistant editor for Spinal Deformity as well as chairman of the editorial board of Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine.
Dr. Heary earned his medical degree at the University of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine and completed his residency in neurological surgery at UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School in Newark, now a part of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences. He has also completed a spine fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.
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