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Biography: Dr. Farah Hameed was raised in Houston, TX for most of her life. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin, where she majored in the Plan II Honors Program and graduated with University Honors. She attended medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch, where she was awarded her Medical Degree. She completed her internship in Internal Medicine at Boston University Medical Center, and she completed her residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School/Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. She completed her fellowship in Spine and Sports Medicine at Northwestern University through the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago where she won the Baskin Award for excellence in research. She serves as the Medical Director of women's health rehabilitation. She is board certified in both Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine. In addition to seeing patients, Dr. Hameed is also an Associate Professor at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in the Department of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine. She serves as the Department Chair of Quality and Patient Safety and is the Associate Chair of Faculty Development. She has been nominated and inducted into the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons Academy of Clinical Excellence (ACE). She has also been named as one of NY's Super Doctors. Dr. Hameed sees patients of all ages, from adolescents to adults. Additionally, she specializes in pregnancy related back and pelvic girdle pain as well as caring for female athletes. Her goal is to plan comprehensive and structured rehabilitation programs for patients by treating their injuries quickly and creating a personalized regimen of care for each patient. She also focuses on education and awareness of injury prevention through proper training and technique. Her areas of clinical interest are low back disorders, overuse injuries, sports prevention, women's/adolescent female health, and pregnancy and post-partum related pain. Her current clinical research is on understanding and developing ways to prevent and treat pregnancy related lumbopelvic pain.

Biography: Nasser Ayyad, D.O., is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College who is board-certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and fellowship trained in Interventional Spine and Sports medicine. He specializes in treating a variety of pain conditions, including neck and back pain as well as musculoskeletal conditions such asmuscle, joint, and tendon pain. His philosophy centers on treating "the whole patient," not just the symptoms, by listening and evaluating patients to develop individualized treatment plans to facilitate recovery and prevent re-injury.Dr. Ayyad is fluent in Spanish and his clinical interests include using exercise, physical therapy, and integrative medicine practices to treat musculoskeletal pain, as well as mindbody therapies in the perception of pain and healing. In addition, Dr. Ayyad performs various minimally invasive treatments that include fluoroscopic guided spine injections, ultrasound-guided joint injections, regenerative medicine, and neuromodulation including spinal cord stimulation and peripheral nerve stimulation.Dr. Ayyad earned his medical degree at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. He completed a residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Texas Southwestern where he served as Chief Resident and earned the Arete Award for altruism. He then underwent advanced training in Interventional Spine and Sports Medicine through a North American Spine Society fellowship at Desert Spine and Sports Physicians in Phoenix, Arizona. Prior to joining Weill Cornell Medical College, Dr. Ayyad worked as an Attending physician in the University of Texas Southwestern Spine Center in Dallas, TX. Dr. Ayyad was included in D Magazine's Best Doctors list for 2020 and 2021.

Biography: Dr. Dean Chou is the Bennett M. Stein Professor of Neurosurgery. He is the Chief of the Spine Division and Vice Chair of Department of Neurosurgery at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Chou has many years of experience andexpertise in scoliosis, spinal deformity, spinal tumors, and degenerative conditions of the spine. He haspioneered many minimally invasive surgical techniques to treat these complexconditions, and is also an expert in traditional open surgery. Whenpossible, he uses the least-invasive treatment techniques,providing an individualized, thoughtful approach to every patient. Dr. Chou attended medicalschool at the University of California, San Francisco, completed his residencyin Neurosurgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and undertook a fellowship incomplex spinal surgery at The Barrow Neurological Institute under one of thelegendary pioneers of spine surgery, Dr. Volker Sonntag. He is board certified by the American Boardof Neurological Surgery. Prior toColumbia, he was on faculty at the University of California of San Francisco,rising to the rank of full Professor of Neurosurgery and Orthopedics, and eventually the Associate Director of the UCSF Neurospine Center. He is a Castle Connolly Top Doctor and hasbeen elected by his peers for 10 consecutive years to the "BestDoctors in America" list, according to Best Doctors, Inc. Dr. Chou has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications in a wide variety of neurosurgery and spinejournals. He sits on the editorial boards of the following journals; Journal of Neurosurgery:Spine, Neurosurgery, and PLOS ONE. He is on theadvisory board of the journal, Spine. He serves as Treasurer and on the Board ofDirectors for the Lumbar Spine Research Society (LSRS) and serves on theMembership Committee for the American Association of Neurological Surgeons(AANS). He also sits on the Executive andScientific Program Committees of the AANS/Congress of Neurosurgeons Section onDisorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves, and he has served as an abstractreviewer for many organized meetings. He is a two-time recipient of the HaroldRosegay Resident Teaching Award and has been awarded the Alumni AchievementAward from The Johns Hopkins Department of Neurosurgery. He has served as abstract reviewer andfaculty member for such organizations as the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS),the North American Spine Society (NASS), the Congress of Neurological Surgeons(CNS), the AANS, the LSRS, the Global Spine Congress, and the InternationalMeeting for Advanced Spinal Techniques (IMAST).

Care Philosophy: Dr. Cooper aims to deliver the highest quality care throughout the healthcare process. He practices a model of patient-centered care and shared decision making that make the patient's experience more enjoyable. Wait times are minimized out of respect to the patient's time. His practice focuses on primary and revision hip and knee arthroplasty. He is skilled in minimally invasive total joint arthroplasty as well as advanced techniques in managing complications of failed or painful hip and knee replacements.

Care Philosophy: Dr. Harrison believes in a holistic approach to patient care and utilizes a multi-disciplinary team focused on recovery. She has a general practice treating a variety of disorders including musculoskeletal medicine and sports related injuries.

Biography: Dr. McCormick is the Gallen Professor of Neurological Surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is also the Director ofThe Och Spine Hospital at The Neurological Institute of New Yorkand an attending physician atNewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. His clinical and research interests focus exclusively on the evaluation, surgical management, and outcomes assessment of patients with disorders of the spine and spinal cord. He is a world-renowned spinal neurosurgeon and recognized expert in the surgical management of spinal disorders includingspinal cord tumors,vascular malformations,herniated cervical and lumbar discs,spinal stenosis,spondylolisthesis,microsurgery,arthroplasty, and spinal stabilization andfusionfor traumatic anddegenerative spinal instabilityanddeformity. Dr. McCormick graduated fromColumbia Universityand received his medical degree fromColumbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He performed research at theNational Institutes of Health (NIH)and trained in Neurological Surgery at the prestigious Neurological Institute of New York. He performed a one-year complex spine surgery fellowship at Medical College of Wisconsin and returned to the Neurological Institute of New York to join the neurosurgical staff as the first neurosurgeon to dedicate his practice entirely to the treatment of patients with spinal disorders. In the 25 years of practice, Dr. McCormick has performed nearly 7000spinal procedures on patients from around the world but with special emphasis on patients from tri-state area. Dr. McCormick has received numerous awards including the prestigious Columbia College 2007 John Jay award for professional achievement, the 2009 Joint Spine Section Meritorious Service award, and was an honored lecturer at national, international, and institutional events on numerous occasions. He has consistently been named as one of New York's best doctors since 2001 and for the last several years has been named as one ofCastle Connolly's America's Top Doctors, America's Top Doctors for Cancer, and Top Doctors: New York Metro Area.