Steven W. Hwang, MD
- Neurological Surgery
- English
- French
Mentorship played a significant role in guiding Steven Hwang, M.D., along his career path. He says that working with certain residents fueled his interest in neurosurgery as a medical student and then in residency, and the diversity and resilience of children led him to pediatric neurosurgery. The combination of treating children with the variability in spinal pathology further inspired him to focus on pediatric spine surgery. Dr. Hwang enjoys the confluence of biomechanics and complexity of the spine with the care and impact surgeons can have on children.
Pediatric Care
Specialties
- Craniofacial
- Neurological Surgery
- Pediatric Surgery
- Spine & Spinal Cord
WHERE I PROVIDE CARE
More About Me
- American Board of Neurological Surgery, Neurological Surgery, Neurological Surgery - General
Medical Education
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
Canada
5/1/2003
Medical Education
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
6/30/2003
Internship
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA
6/30/2004
Residency
Tufts New England Medical Center
Boston, MA
6/1/2009
Residency
Tufts Medical Center
Boston, MA
6/30/2009
Fellowship
Shriners Hospitals for Children - Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
6/30/2010
Tufts Medical Center
Assistant Professor
Shriners Children’s-Philadelphia
Staff Physician
- 2020-Present: Chair, SRS CME
- 2020-Present: Chair, NASS Clinical Practice Guideline
- 2020-Present: Board Member, NASS
- Member and Guideline Committee Member, AANS
- Reviewer, The Spine Journal
- Reviewer, Neurosurgery
- 2021, Scoliosis Research Society Travelling Fellowship
- 2020, World Pediatric Project Humanitarian of the Year Award
- 2017, Scoliosis Research Society Dawson Fellowship
- Yang M, Hwang SW et al: What happens after a vertebral body tether break: incidence, location, and progression with 5-year follow-up. 57th Scoliosis Research Society Annual Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden, Sept. 2022.
- Hwang SW: Building a VBT team and performing the first case. 29th International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques (Early Career Surgeon Session), Miami, FL, Apr. 2022.
- Hwang SW et al: Selection of fusion levels, ch. 11 and Kyphosis restoration in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, ch. 21. In The Harms Study Group Treatment Guide, 2e. Thieme Medical Publishers, Nov. 2021.
- Hwang SW et al: Preoperative SRS pain score is the primary predictor of postoperative pain after surgery for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: an observational retrospective study of pain outcomes from a registry of 1744 patients with a mean follow-up of 3.4 years. Eur Spine J 29(4):754-60, Apr. 2020.
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