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Saman Shabani, MD

Saman Shabani, MD

Assistant Professor; Director, Spinal Oncology Surgery; Director, Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery; Director, Spine Fellowship Program

Locations

  • Neurosurgery
    8701 Watertown Plank Rd.
    Milwaukee, WI 53226

Education

Fellowship in Complex & Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, University of California - San Francisco, CA, 2022
Neurological Surgery Residency, 麻豆学生精品版, Milwaukee, WI, 2021
MD, Stony Brook University, New York, NY, 2014
BS in Psychobiology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 2010
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Biography

Dr. Saman Shabani joined the faculty at the 麻豆学生精品版 in 2022. He completed his residency at the 麻豆学生精品版 and pursued fellowship training at University of California – San Francisco in Complex Spine and Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery. He completed his undergraduate studies at University of California – Los Angeles while majoring in Psychobiology and medical training at Stony Brook School of Medicine in Stony Brook, NY. He is returning to Milwaukee to grow the adult spinal deformity and spinal oncology centers to better serve the patients of Wisconsin.

Dr. Shabani’s research focuses on acute and chronic spinal cord injury, spinal oncology, and adult spinal deformity. He has done extensive clinical research on patient outcomes in adult spinal deformity surgery, as well as spinal oncology surgery. Further, he has completed multiple studies on MRI-based spinal research in spinal cord injury.

Dr. Shabani has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers and received multiple grants. He also has won multiple awards, including Charlie Kuntz Scholar Award (2022), Young Surgeon Grant and Education Track (2022), Mayfield Based Science Research Award (2017), and Golden Key Honor Society (2010).

Clinical Programs

Research Interests

  • Acute and chronic spinal cord injury
  • Spinal oncology
  • Adult spinal deformity

Publications

  • (Shahbandi A, Ghamasaee P, Yassin Kassab AM, Shabani S.) Global Spine J. 2025 Jun 06:21925682251349993 PMID: 40479528 PMCID: PMC12144038 06/06/2025

  • (Treffy RW, Rahman M, DeGroot AL, Bakhaidar MGM, Hussain O, Nerva JD, Connelly JM, Shabani S.) World Neurosurg. 2025 Jun;198:123976 PMID: 40222669 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105004397579 04/14/2025

  • (Shabani S, Lavadi RS, Agarwal N, Letchuman V, Le VP, Jamieson AB, Chan AK, Johnson SE, Wang MY, Haid RW, Knightly JJ, Gottfried ON, Shaffrey CI, Virk MS, Shaffrey ME, Park P, Foley KT, Coric D, Upadhyaya CD, Potts EA, Uribe JS, Turner JD, Tumialán LM, Chou D, Fu KG, Asher AL, Bisson EF, Bydon M, Mummaneni PV.) J Neurosurg Spine. 2025 May 01;42(5):541-550 PMID: 40020227 02/28/2025

  • (Bakhaidar MG, Shahbandi A, Shabani S.) Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown). 2025 Apr 28;29(1):164 PMID: 40293250 04/28/2025

  • (Feller C, Bakhaidar MG, Reecher HM, Shabani S.) Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown). 2025 Jan 06;29(1):156-157 PMID: 39760496 01/06/2025

  • (Cutlan R, Khokhar M, Shammout N, Shah AS, Frazer L, Yoganandan N, Shender BS, Sheehy J, Paskoff G, Nicolella D, Bentley T, Shabani S, Stemper BD.) Ann Biomed Eng. 2024 Oct 25 PMID: 39453511 10/25/2024

  • (DeGroot AL, Treffy RW, Bakhaidar M, Palmer P, Rahman M, Shabani S.) J Neurosurg Case Lessons. 2024 Oct 14;8(16) PMID: 39401460 PMCID: PMC11488369 10/14/2024

  • (Bakhaidar M, Harinathan B, Devaraj KB, DeGroot A, Yoganandan N, Shabani S.) Int J Spine Surg. 2024 Sep 12;18(4):441-447 PMID: 39214603 PMCID: PMC11483624 08/31/2024

  • (Bakhaidar M, Harinathan B, Banurekha Devaraj K, Yoganandan N, Shabani S.) J Neurosurg Spine. 2024 Aug 01;41(2):209-215 PMID: 38788233 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85200521972 05/24/2024

  • (Treffy RW, Bakhaidar M, Shabani S.) J Neurosurg Case Lessons. 2024 Jul 29;8(5) PMID: 39074388 PMCID: PMC11301592 07/29/2024

  • (Hussain O, DeGroot A, Treffy R, Bakhaidar M, Zenga J, Shabani S.) World Neurosurg. 2024 Jul;187:68 PMID: 38599373 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85192194909 04/11/2024

  • (Agarwal N, Letchuman V, Lavadi RS, Le VP, Aabedi AA, Shabani S, Chan AK, Park P, Uribe JS, Turner JD, Eastlack RK, Fessler RG, Fu KM, Wang MY, Kanter AS, Okonkwo DO, Nunley PD, Anand N, Mundis GM, Passias PG, Bess S, Shaffrey CI, Chou D, Mummaneni PV.) J Neurosurg Spine. 2024 May 01;40(5):602-610 PMID: 38364229 02/16/2024

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