Albert Telfeian, MD, PhD is director of minimally invasive endoscopic spine surgery at Rhode Island Hospital, and Vice Chairman of Quality Assurance for the Department of Neurosurgery at Brown.
Telfeian is a graduate of the MD/PhD program at Brown University. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University and his neurosurgical residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He also completed fellowship training in spine and functional epilepsy surgery at Switzerland’s Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and a pediatric neurosurgery fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Telfeian has published extensively in the areas of epilepsy, functional and spine surgery and is currently involved in the research and development of ultra-minimally invasive endoscopic techniques.
He was the recipient of the American Association of Neurologic Surgeons Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Research Award, the American Epilepsy Society Young Investigator Award and the J. Kiffin Penry Pediatric Epilepsy Award, and was named one of the nation’s 15 leaders in neurosurgery in the October 2011 edition of Newsweek. Dr. Telfeian was awarded the prestigious Kambin award in 2015 for his contributions to the field of endoscopic spine surgery.
