Board Certified Neurosurgeon and Spine Surgeon

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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Nitin Agarwal, MD, FACS is board certified in Neurological Surgery. He is pursuing an executive MBA at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Agarwal received his medical degree from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Afterward, he completed his neurological surgery residency at the University of Pittsburgh. During this time, he also completed an enfolded fellowship in sports medicine and in minimally invasive and complex spine surgery. He then completed an AO Spine and Committee on Advanced Subspecialty Training (CAST) approved minimally invasive and complex spine surgery fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, with dual training from orthopedic and neurosurgical mentors. Dr. Agarwal served as the director of neurotrauma at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis with a clinical focus on spinal deformity surgery. At University of Pittsburgh, he served as the Director of Minimally Invasive Spine and Robotics Surgery. Dr. Agarwal also serves as a director for the Spine Computational Outcomes Learning Institute (SCOLI), a hub for cutting-edge clinical and translational science that enhances neurosurgical patient care. SCOLI has funded investigations in four main domains: neurotrauma outcomes, spine outcomes, socioeconomic research, and patient education. To date, Dr. Agarwal has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and has spoken at several regional and national conferences with over 350 oral and poster presentations. His health literacy research has been published in several high-impact factor journals, including JAMA Internal Medicine, and he has also been featured by prominent healthcare-oriented news outlets such as Reuters Health. In addition, he is an editor for several academic textbooks.