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Bryan Lee, MD, is a neurosurgeon in the Department of Neurosurgery at Barrow Neurological Institute. He is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery.
Dr. Lee specializes in minimally invasive spine surgery and complex spinal deformity correction. He treats spinal degenerative diseases, spinal deformities requiring complex revisions and reconstructions, spinal tumors, and cranial and spinal trauma. He is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), AOSpine North America, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves, and the North American Spine Society.
Dr. Lee earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and his medical degree from the Loma Linda University School of Medicine in California. He completed his residency in neurosurgery and a fellowship in spine surgery at Cleveland Clinic.
Dr. Lee’s research interests include comparative analyses of clinical outcome data to optimize health-related quality of life in patients and clinical and biomechanical studies of the latest technology to treat complex spinal diseases. In addition, Dr. Lee is actively involved in multi-institutional clinical data collection to improve treatment options. He also serves an ad-hoc reviewer for several prominent national and international neurosurgical and spinal journals.
Office Location
Barrow Brain and Spine
19636 North 27th Avenue, Suite 203
Phoenix, AZ 85027
To request an appointment with Dr. Lee, please call (623) 562-5050.

- Residency, Cleveland Clinic, Neurosurgery, 2012-2019
- Fellowship, Cleveland Clinic, Spine Surgery, 2016-2017
- MD, Loma Linda University, School of Medicine, 2012
- BA, University of Pennsylvania, Biology, 2006
- AANS/CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves
- American Association of Neurological Surgeons
- AOSpine North America
- Congress of Neurological Surgeons
- North American Spine Society
- Excellence in Teaching Award, Cleveland Clinic, Education Institute, 2018
- Program Director Award, Cleveland Clinic, Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery Residency Program, 2018
- Neurosurgery Resident Award, Neurological Institute Research Day (2018)
- Outstanding Achievement Academic Award, Cleveland Clinic, Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery Residency Program, 2017
- Excellence in Teaching Award, Cleveland Clinic, Education Institute, 2017
- Honors in Clerkships and Basic Science Subjects, Loma Linda University, School of Medicine, 2008-2012
- McPherson Society Summer Research Award, Loma Linda University, School of Medicine, 2009
- Cum Laude with Distinction in Biology, University of Pennsylvania, 2006
Epigenetic inactivation of the autophagy–lysosomal system in appendix in Parkinson’s disease
Date: 12/2021
Authors: Juozas Gordevicius, Peipei Li, Lee L. Marshall, Bryan A. Killinger, Sean Lang, Elizabeth Ensink, Nathan C. Kuhn, Wei Cui, Nazia Maroof, Roberta Lauria, Christina Rueb, Juliane Siebourg-Polster, Pierre Maliver, Jared Lamp, Irving Vega, Fredric P. Manfredsson, Markus Britschgi, Viviane Labrie
The effect of Gamma Knife radiosurgery on large posterior fossa metastases and the associated mass effect from peritumoral edema
Date: 02/2021
Authors: Bahaeddin A. Muhsen, Krishna C. Joshi, Bryan S. Lee, Bicky Thapa, Hamid Borghei-Razavi, Xuefei Jia, Gene H. Barnett, Samuel T. Chao, Alireza M. Mohammadi, John H. Suh, Michael A. Vogelbaum, Lilyana Angelov
Corrigendum to ‘Surgical Outcomes in Patients with Congenital Cervical Spinal Stenosis’ [World Neurosurgery 141 (2020) e645-e650] (World Neurosurgery (2020) 141(e645-e650) (S1878875020312250), (10.1016/j.wneu.2020.05.252))
Date: 01/2021
Authors: Karam Atli, Vikram Chakravarthy, Aleem I. Khan, Bryan S. Lee, Don Moore, Michael P. Steinmetz, Thomas E. Mroz
Pathologic Correlation of Cellular Imaging Using Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Quantification in Patients with Brain Metastases After Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
Date: 02/2020
Authors: Hamid Borghei-Razavi, Mayur Sharma, Todd Emch, Daria Krivosheya, Bryan Lee, Bryan S. Lee, Baha'eddin Muhsen, Richard Prayson, Nancy Obuchowski, Gene H. Barnett, Michael A. Vogelbaum, Samuel T. Chao, John H. Suh, Alireza M. Mohammadi, Lilyana Angelov
Radiation exposure and avoidance in minimally invasive spine surgery
Date: 01/2020
Authors: Bryan S. Lee, Dominic W. Pelle, Nicholas R. Arnold, Thomas E. Mroz
- English
- Korean

Bryan Lee, MD, is a neurosurgeon in the Department of Neurosurgery at Barrow Neurological Institute. He is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery.
Dr. Lee specializes in minimally invasive spine surgery and complex spinal deformity correction. He treats spinal degenerative diseases, spinal deformities requiring complex revisions and reconstructions, spinal tumors, and cranial and spinal trauma. He is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), AOSpine North America, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves, and the North American Spine Society.
Dr. Lee earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and his medical degree from the Loma Linda University School of Medicine in California. He completed his residency in neurosurgery and a fellowship in spine surgery at Cleveland Clinic.
Dr. Lee’s research interests include comparative analyses of clinical outcome data to optimize health-related quality of life in patients and clinical and biomechanical studies of the latest technology to treat complex spinal diseases. In addition, Dr. Lee is actively involved in multi-institutional clinical data collection to improve treatment options. He also serves an ad-hoc reviewer for several prominent national and international neurosurgical and spinal journals.
Office Location
Barrow Brain and Spine
19636 North 27th Avenue, Suite 203
Phoenix, AZ 85027
To request an appointment with Dr. Lee, please call (623) 562-5050.

- Residency, Cleveland Clinic, Neurosurgery, 2012-2019
- Fellowship, Cleveland Clinic, Spine Surgery, 2016-2017
- MD, Loma Linda University, School of Medicine, 2012
- BA, University of Pennsylvania, Biology, 2006
- AANS/CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves
- American Association of Neurological Surgeons
- AOSpine North America
- Congress of Neurological Surgeons
- North American Spine Society
- Excellence in Teaching Award, Cleveland Clinic, Education Institute, 2018
- Program Director Award, Cleveland Clinic, Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery Residency Program, 2018
- Neurosurgery Resident Award, Neurological Institute Research Day (2018)
- Outstanding Achievement Academic Award, Cleveland Clinic, Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery Residency Program, 2017
- Excellence in Teaching Award, Cleveland Clinic, Education Institute, 2017
- Honors in Clerkships and Basic Science Subjects, Loma Linda University, School of Medicine, 2008-2012
- McPherson Society Summer Research Award, Loma Linda University, School of Medicine, 2009
- Cum Laude with Distinction in Biology, University of Pennsylvania, 2006
Epigenetic inactivation of the autophagy–lysosomal system in appendix in Parkinson’s disease
Date: 12/2021
Authors: Juozas Gordevicius, Peipei Li, Lee L. Marshall, Bryan A. Killinger, Sean Lang, Elizabeth Ensink, Nathan C. Kuhn, Wei Cui, Nazia Maroof, Roberta Lauria, Christina Rueb, Juliane Siebourg-Polster, Pierre Maliver, Jared Lamp, Irving Vega, Fredric P. Manfredsson, Markus Britschgi, Viviane Labrie
The effect of Gamma Knife radiosurgery on large posterior fossa metastases and the associated mass effect from peritumoral edema
Date: 02/2021
Authors: Bahaeddin A. Muhsen, Krishna C. Joshi, Bryan S. Lee, Bicky Thapa, Hamid Borghei-Razavi, Xuefei Jia, Gene H. Barnett, Samuel T. Chao, Alireza M. Mohammadi, John H. Suh, Michael A. Vogelbaum, Lilyana Angelov
Corrigendum to ‘Surgical Outcomes in Patients with Congenital Cervical Spinal Stenosis’ [World Neurosurgery 141 (2020) e645-e650] (World Neurosurgery (2020) 141(e645-e650) (S1878875020312250), (10.1016/j.wneu.2020.05.252))
Date: 01/2021
Authors: Karam Atli, Vikram Chakravarthy, Aleem I. Khan, Bryan S. Lee, Don Moore, Michael P. Steinmetz, Thomas E. Mroz
Pathologic Correlation of Cellular Imaging Using Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Quantification in Patients with Brain Metastases After Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
Date: 02/2020
Authors: Hamid Borghei-Razavi, Mayur Sharma, Todd Emch, Daria Krivosheya, Bryan Lee, Bryan S. Lee, Baha'eddin Muhsen, Richard Prayson, Nancy Obuchowski, Gene H. Barnett, Michael A. Vogelbaum, Samuel T. Chao, John H. Suh, Alireza M. Mohammadi, Lilyana Angelov
Radiation exposure and avoidance in minimally invasive spine surgery
Date: 01/2020
Authors: Bryan S. Lee, Dominic W. Pelle, Nicholas R. Arnold, Thomas E. Mroz
- English
- Korean