Assistant Professor
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Aditya Vedantam is an Assistant Professor in Neurosurgery and adjunct faculty in Orthopedics, Radiology and Biomedical Engineering at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI. He serves as the Director of Minimally-Invasive Spine Surgery. He completed his neurosurgery residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX, followed by a fellowship in Minimally Invasive and Complex Spine Surgery at the University of Miami in Miami, FL. During residency, he received the institutional NIH R25 research grant as well as the numerous institutional and national awards for his research.
In addition to his clinical practice which encompasses degenerative, traumatic and neoplastic spine disease, Dr. Vedantam has a robust research portfolio. He has a funded research lab with three broad areas of research: advanced MRI for spinal cord injury and degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM), patient-specific finite element modeling of the cervical spinal cord for DCM and novel rehabilitation techniques for recovery of function after surgery for DCM. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts. He is currently an Academy Emerging Investigator designated by the American Academy of Neurological Surgeons. His lab is currently funded by AO Spine North America, North America Spine Society and Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin.
Sunday, March 19, 2023
8:38 AM – 8:40 AM EST