Amer F. Samdani, MD

• American Board of Neurological Surgery, Neurological Surgery, Neurological Surgery - General
• American Board of Neurological Surgery, Neurological Surgery, Pediatric Neurology

Medical Education|Johns Hopkins|Baltimore|MD|United States of America|05/31/1997

Internship|John Hopkins Hospital|Baltimore|MD|United States of America|06/30/1998

Residency|Johns Hopkins|Baltimore|MD|United States of America|06/01/2004

Fellowship|Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)|Philadelphia|PA|United States of America|06/30/2005

Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
Adjunct Clinical Professor

• President-Elect 2025: Pediatric Spine Study Group; 2005-Present: Member
• 2023-Present: Vice President for Education, Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation/Harms Study Group
• 2009-Present: Board and Executive Committee member, Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation/Harms Study Group; 2005-Present: Member
• 2006-Present: Member, Scoliosis Research Society
• 2005-Present: Member, American Academy of Neurological Surgery

• 2015: Editorial Board, Spine Deformity Journal

• 2023: Award Nominee for “Follow-up Report on Prospective FDA IDE Study on Vertebral Body Tethering for Idiopathic Scoliosis," International Meeting on Advanced Spinal Techniques
• 2013-2022: Top Doctors, Philadelphia Magazine
• 2017: Alumni Achievement Award, John Hopkins Department of Neurosurgery
• 2015-2016: Best Doctors in America
• 2013-2016: Top Doctor, Neurological Surgery, Castle Connolly
• 2013: Top Doctor, U.S. News and World Report
• 2013: Scoliosis Research Society Traveling Fellowship
• 2010: Edgar Dawson Traveling Fellowship, Scoliosis Research Society

• Presenter: 31st IMAST, Lumbar vertebral body tethering: single center outcomes and reoperations in a consecutive series of 106 patients (4/2024, 11/2023)
• Presenter: 58th SRS annual meeting, Does the availability of baseline intraoperative neuromonitoring data affect outcomes in patients with cerebral palsy undergoing PSF? (9/2023)
• Presenter: 58th SRS annual meeting, Does tone affect outcomes in cerebral palsy patients undergoing posterior spinal fusion? (9/2023)
• Presenter: 30th IMAST, Follow-up report on prospective FDA IDE study on vertebral body tethering for idiopathic scoliosis (3/2023)
• Guest Speaker: Taiwan Spine Society (3/2023)
• Keynote Speaker: University of Nicosia, Cyprus, The Shriners Annual Lectures in Orthopaedics (1/2023)