Todd J Albert

Since 2014, Surgeon-in-Chief and Medical Director and Korein-Wilson Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Hospital for Special Surgery and Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College. Albert will continue to practice at the Hospital for Special Surgery, where his focus will be on cervical spine surgery. 

A past president of the Cervical Spine Research Society and past chairman of the International Meeting of Advanced Spinal Techniques for the Scoliosis Research Society, Albert is the author of seven books and more than 40 book chapters related to orthopedics. He has also published 300 peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed articles. 
 Previously, Dr. Albert was Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedics and President of The Rothman Institute at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. He graduated from University of Virginia School of Medicine and completed his residency in Orthopedic Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital where he was named outstanding chief resident, and performed a fellowship in spinal surgery at the Minnesota Spine Center.