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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, 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
- HonorHealth Neuroscience Research Institute Research Award, Utilizing Self-Irrigating Bipolar Sealers for Efficient Bilateral C2 Nerve Root Ligation during Atlantoaxial Instrumentation, 2023
- HonorHealth Neuroscience Research Institute Research Award, Clinical Outcomes for Patients Undergoing L1-S1 without Pelvic Fixation for Deformity Correction, 2023
- HonorHealth Neuroscience Research Institute Research Award, Dehydrated Amnion/Chorion Membrane Use in Patients with Emergent Craniectomies Shows Minimal Dural Adhesions at Time of Cranioplasty, 2023
- Kuntz Scholar Award at AANS/CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves, Clinical Outcomes and Radiographic Results of Prone Transpsoas Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion: A Single Institution Case Series of 106 Cases and 173 Levels, 2023
- Cleveland Clinic Excellence in Teaching Award, Education Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 2018
- Program Director Award, Neurosurgery Residency Program, Department of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic, 2018
- Neurosurgery Resident Award, Neurological Institute Research Day, 2018
- Outstanding Achievement Academic Award, Neurosurgery Residency Program, Department of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic, 2017
- Cleveland Clinic Excellence in Teaching Award, Education Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 2017
- Neurosurgical Top Gun Award: Top 3 Team at American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Washington, DC, 2015
- Honors in Clerkships: Family Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry and Surgery, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, 2010
- Honors in Basic Science Subjects: Pharmacology and Psychopathology, 2009
- Macpherson Society Summer Research Award, 2009
- University, School of Medicine, 2009
- Cum laude, University of Pennsylvania, 2006
- Class of 1948 Scholarship Grant, University of Pennsylvania, 2002
Complications of the Prone Transpsoas Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion for Degenerative Lumbar Spine Disease: A Multicenter Study
Date: 06/2023
Authors: Mohamed A. Soliman, Luis Diaz-Aguilar, Cathleen C. Kuo, Alexander O. Aguirre, Asham Khan, Jose E. San Miguel-Ruiz, Rodrigo Amaral, Muhammad M. Abd-El-Barr, Isaac L. Moss, Tyler Smith, Gurvinder S. Deol, Jeff Ehresman, Madison Battista, Bryan S. Lee, M Craig McMains, Samuel A. Joseph, David Schwartz, Andrew D. Nguyen, William R. Taylor, Luiz Pimenta, John Pollina
Radiographic alignment outcomes after the single-position prone transpsoas approach: a multi-institutional retrospective review of 363 cases
Date: 01/2023
Authors: Luis Diaz-Aguilar, Lauren E. Stone, Mohamed A. Soliman, Alexander Padovano, Jeff Ehresman, Nolan J. Brown, Gautam Produturi, Madison Battista, Asham Khan, John Pollina, Rodrigo Amaral, Muhammad M. Abd-El-Barr, Isaac Moss, Tyler Smith, Gurvinder S. Deol, Bryan S. Lee, M Craig McMains, Samuel A. Joseph, David Schwartz, Luiz Pimenta, Andrew D. Nguyen, William R. Taylor
Pyoderma Gangrenosum Masquerading as Wound Infection in the Early Postoperative Period After Lumbar Spine Deformity Correction Surgery
Date: 05/2022
Authors: Bryce S. Owen, Mark A. Pacult, Bryan S. Lee
A Retrospective Analysis of the L3-L4 Disc and Spinopelvic Parameters on Outcomes in Thoracolumbar Fusion: Was Art Steffee Right?
Date: 03/2022
Authors: Mark M. Kodsy, Harvey E. Freitag, Robert D. Winkelman, Nicholas M. Rabah, Bryan S. Lee, Ryan Honomichl, Nicolas Thompson, Jason W. Savage, R Douglas Orr, Edward C. Benzel, Iain H. Kalfas
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, F P Manfredsson, Markus Britschgi, Viviane Labrie
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- 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, 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
- HonorHealth Neuroscience Research Institute Research Award, Utilizing Self-Irrigating Bipolar Sealers for Efficient Bilateral C2 Nerve Root Ligation during Atlantoaxial Instrumentation, 2023
- HonorHealth Neuroscience Research Institute Research Award, Clinical Outcomes for Patients Undergoing L1-S1 without Pelvic Fixation for Deformity Correction, 2023
- HonorHealth Neuroscience Research Institute Research Award, Dehydrated Amnion/Chorion Membrane Use in Patients with Emergent Craniectomies Shows Minimal Dural Adhesions at Time of Cranioplasty, 2023
- Kuntz Scholar Award at AANS/CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves, Clinical Outcomes and Radiographic Results of Prone Transpsoas Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion: A Single Institution Case Series of 106 Cases and 173 Levels, 2023
- Cleveland Clinic Excellence in Teaching Award, Education Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 2018
- Program Director Award, Neurosurgery Residency Program, Department of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic, 2018
- Neurosurgery Resident Award, Neurological Institute Research Day, 2018
- Outstanding Achievement Academic Award, Neurosurgery Residency Program, Department of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic, 2017
- Cleveland Clinic Excellence in Teaching Award, Education Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 2017
- Neurosurgical Top Gun Award: Top 3 Team at American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Washington, DC, 2015
- Honors in Clerkships: Family Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry and Surgery, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, 2010
- Honors in Basic Science Subjects: Pharmacology and Psychopathology, 2009
- Macpherson Society Summer Research Award, 2009
- University, School of Medicine, 2009
- Cum laude, University of Pennsylvania, 2006
- Class of 1948 Scholarship Grant, University of Pennsylvania, 2002
Complications of the Prone Transpsoas Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion for Degenerative Lumbar Spine Disease: A Multicenter Study
Date: 06/2023
Authors: Mohamed A. Soliman, Luis Diaz-Aguilar, Cathleen C. Kuo, Alexander O. Aguirre, Asham Khan, Jose E. San Miguel-Ruiz, Rodrigo Amaral, Muhammad M. Abd-El-Barr, Isaac L. Moss, Tyler Smith, Gurvinder S. Deol, Jeff Ehresman, Madison Battista, Bryan S. Lee, M Craig McMains, Samuel A. Joseph, David Schwartz, Andrew D. Nguyen, William R. Taylor, Luiz Pimenta, John Pollina
Radiographic alignment outcomes after the single-position prone transpsoas approach: a multi-institutional retrospective review of 363 cases
Date: 01/2023
Authors: Luis Diaz-Aguilar, Lauren E. Stone, Mohamed A. Soliman, Alexander Padovano, Jeff Ehresman, Nolan J. Brown, Gautam Produturi, Madison Battista, Asham Khan, John Pollina, Rodrigo Amaral, Muhammad M. Abd-El-Barr, Isaac Moss, Tyler Smith, Gurvinder S. Deol, Bryan S. Lee, M Craig McMains, Samuel A. Joseph, David Schwartz, Luiz Pimenta, Andrew D. Nguyen, William R. Taylor
Pyoderma Gangrenosum Masquerading as Wound Infection in the Early Postoperative Period After Lumbar Spine Deformity Correction Surgery
Date: 05/2022
Authors: Bryce S. Owen, Mark A. Pacult, Bryan S. Lee
A Retrospective Analysis of the L3-L4 Disc and Spinopelvic Parameters on Outcomes in Thoracolumbar Fusion: Was Art Steffee Right?
Date: 03/2022
Authors: Mark M. Kodsy, Harvey E. Freitag, Robert D. Winkelman, Nicholas M. Rabah, Bryan S. Lee, Ryan Honomichl, Nicolas Thompson, Jason W. Savage, R Douglas Orr, Edward C. Benzel, Iain H. Kalfas
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, F P Manfredsson, Markus Britschgi, Viviane Labrie
- English
- Korean