Zuhair Khan, D.O.

Kai-Ming Fu, MD, PhD, is a board-certified neurosurgeon at Och Spine at NewYork-Presbyterian at Weill Cornell Medicine Center for Comprehensive Spine Care. His specialty is advanced surgical procedures for spinal deformity, reconstruction, and oncology; sacroiliac joint conditions; and low back pain, especially pain caused by previously undetected and under-diagnosed conditions. He has been at the forefront of the surgical progression toward less invasive techniques, using neuro-navigation, image guidance, and other advanced technologies that reduce recovery times for his patients. Dr. Fu is a co-editor of the 2023 textbook Treatment of Spine Disease in the Elderly: Cutting Edge Techniques and Technologies Dr. Fu obtained his undergraduate degrees from Stanford University and his medical and graduate training in the MD/PhD program at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After completing his residency and chief residency in neurosurgery at the University of Virginia, Dr. Fu completed a combined neurosurgical/orthopedic spine fellowship at the University of Virginia under Dr. Christopher Shaffrey, where he received advanced training in deformity, reconstructive, and oncological spine surgery.Dr. Fu combines his clinical interests in deformity, reconstructive, revision, and tumor surgery with active research in clinical outcomes. His work has been presented at multiple national and international meetings and been published in journals such as Spine, Journal of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery, Journal of Neurophysiology, and Journal of Neuroscience. He has been nominated for and won multiple awards at meetings such as the Scoliosis Research Society Annual Meeting and the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. His work has been featured in the Journal of Neurosurgery Spine, Spine Deformity, Spinal News and Orthopedics Today. Dr. Fu sees patients at Och Spine at NewYork-Presbyterian at Weill Cornell Medicine Center for Comprehensive Spine Care: 240 East 59th Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10022. Dr. Fu is the chief of neurosurgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan.For more information, please visit https://comprehensivespine.weillcornell.orgTo request an appointment with Dr. Fu, please visit https://neurosurgery.weillcornell.org or call 212-746-2260.

Dr. Neel Mehta is both board-certified in anesthesia, and fellowship trained, board-certified in interventional pain medicine.He holds several positions including:Division Chief, Pain Management at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, overseeing outpatient and inpatient services together with a large team of dedicated pain and regional anesthesia physiciansCo-Director, Och Spine at NewYork-Presbyterian at the Weill Cornell Medicine Center for Comprehensive Spine CareFormer Associate Program Director of the Tri-Institutional Interventional Pain Medicine FellowshipAssociate Professor of Clinical AnesthesiologyFormer President, Eastern Pain AssociationDean's Healthcare Leadership FellowQuality Assurance Officer for Pain MedicineWeill Cornell Physician Organization Operations and Planning Committee MemberWeill Cornell Medical School, Course Director in Pain MedicineDr. Mehta has been named "Top Doctor" by Super Doctors New York 'Rising Stars', New York Magazine, and Castle Connolly.His training includes:Fellowship in managing health care delivery, Harvard Business School, 2014Fellowship in interventional pain medicine in the Tri-Institutional Pain Fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, Hospital for Special Surgery and Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2010.Anesthesia residency at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in 2009.Medicine internship at Caritas Carney Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts 2006Medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts, 2005.He is an active member of the American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA), American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA), the North American Neuromodulation Society, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP), Eastern Pain Society, and the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists (NYSSA). He resides on the Executive Board of the New York Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and the Eastern Pain Society.He has been featured in the New York Times, Prevention Magazine, NY One, ABC, and CBS News. He has published numerous book chapters, peer-reviewed articles, and poster presentations and is a frequent invited speaker and educator at pain conferences across the world.

Avani Baral, M.D. is a board-certified radiologist specializing in Body Imaging. She is an Assistant Attending Radiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Baral graduated from Lehigh University, PA where she earned her B.S in 2011. She then received her M.D at Rutgers NJ Medical School in 2015. Following an internship in Internal Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center, Dr. Baral completed a residency in Diagnostic Radiology at Mount Sinai West, NY in 2020. She then completed her Body Imaging fellowship in 2021 at NYU Langone Health. Dr. Baral joined the faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine in September 2021 as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology.