Biographical summary
Joshua Bakhsheshian, M.D., M.H.A., is a neurosurgeon with combined orthopedic and neurologic spine surgery fellowship training in minimally invasive, robotic and complex spinal surgery in the treatment of spinal disorders. Dr. Bakhsheshian completed his neurosurgery residency with an enfolded fellowship in minimally invasive and complex spinal surgery at Keck School of Medicine and Los Angeles County Medical Center of University of Southern California. Subsequently, he completed a comprehensive adult and pediatric spine surgery fellowship at Columbia University and at Weill Cornell Medical Centers (New York-Presbyterian Och Spine Hospital).
Dr. Bakhsheshian obtained a wide array of skillsets from his interdisciplinary subspecialty training, which allows him to provide a truly individualized treatment approach uniquely tailored to each of his patients. His clinical expertise includes cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine operations utilizing minimally invasive, robotic, or motion-preserving techniques, as well as complex deformity operations in adult and adolescent patients for both spinal deformity and spine tumor surgery.
Dr. Bakhsheshian is an Assistant Professor, Director of Robotic Spine Surgery and Clinical Spine Surgery Research in the Department of Neurosurgery. He is a surgeon-scientist actively involved in data analytics, outcomes research and the development of safer surgical techniques to advance evidence-based spine care. Dr. Bakhsheshian is the recipient of several national research grants and has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed research publications, abstracts, and textbook chapters.
Conditions treated
Procedures performed
- Atlantoaxial fusion
- Cervical disk replacement
- Cervical diskectomy
- Cervical laminectomy
- Cervical pseudoarthrosis procedure
- Cervical scoliosis surgery
- Cervical spine fusion
- Cervical spine surgery
- Cervical traction
- CT-guided surgery
- Degenerative scoliosis surgery
- Exoscopic surgery
- Foraminotomy
- Gardner Wells tongs insertion
- Halo skull traction
- Laminectomy
- Laminoplasty
- Laminotomy
- Lumbar diskectomy
- Lumbar fusion
- Lumbar laminectomy
- Lumbar pseudoarthrosis procedure
- Lumbar scoliosis surgery
- Minimally invasive cancer surgery
- Minimally invasive cervical diskectomy
- Minimally invasive cervical foraminotomy
- Minimally invasive cervical spinal fusion
- Minimally invasive diskectomy
- Minimally invasive foraminotomy
- Minimally invasive lumbar decompression
- Minimally invasive lumbar diskectomy
- Minimally invasive lumbar foraminotomy
- Minimally invasive lumbar spinal fusion
- Minimally invasive neurosurgery
- Minimally invasive spinal fusion
- Minimally invasive spine surgery
- Minimally invasive surgery
- Minimally invasive thoracic diskectomy
- Minimally invasive thoracic foraminotomy
- Minimally invasive thoracic spinal fusion
- Neurostimulation treatment
- Occipitocervical fusion
- Osteotomy
- Pelvic fixation
- Revision cervical spinal surgery
- Revision lumbar spinal surgery
- Revision of previous trauma surgery
- Revision spinal surgery
- Revision thoracic spinal surgery
- Robotic spine surgery
- Robotic surgery
- Sacroiliac joint fusions
- Scoliosis surgery
- Skeletal traction
- Spinal cord stimulator insertion
- Spinal deformity correction surgery
- Spinal fusion
- Spinal stabilization surgery
- Spondylolisthesis surgery
- Synovial cyst removal
- Thoracic scoliosis surgery
- Thoracoplasty
- Tumor biopsy
- Tumor resection
- Ultrasound-guided surgery
- Vertebral column resection
- Vertebrectomy
Interests
- Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery
- Robotic Spine Surgery
- Motion-Preserving Techniques
- Adolescent Spinal Deformity
- Adult Spinal Deformity
- Spine Tumor Surgery
- Complex Spinal Surgery
Mayo Clinic locations
Education
- 2023
Postdoctoral Fellowship - Adult and Pediatric Comprehensive Spine SurgeryDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center
- 2022
Residency - Neurological SurgeryLos Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center
- 2021
Clinical Fellowship - Complex & Minimally Invasive Spine SurgeryDepartment of Orthopedic and Neurological Spine Surgery, Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center
- 2015
Doctor of MedicineChicago Medical School
- 2013
Research FellowshipNational Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
- 2011
Master of Science - Healthcare Administration and ManagementRosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
- 2010
Master of Science - Biomedical SciencesRosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
- 2007
BS - Physiology and NeuroscienceUniversity of California San Diego
Activities and honors
Awards and honors
- 2021
Best PaperNorth American Spine Society
- 2019
National Institute of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Research Education Grant (R25) Resident AwardeeUniversity of Southern California
- 2018
Best Socio-Economic Abstract PresentationCalifornia Association of Neurological Surgeons
- 2017
Michael Apuzzo Award for Creativity and InnovationUniversity of Southern California
- 2017
Consulting Service of the YearLos Angeles County Hospital Emergency Department
- 2016
Alpha Omega Alpha Postgraduate AwardUniversity of Southern California
- 2016
Gabriel Zada Neurosurgery Top Gun AwardUniversity of Southern California
- 2015
John J. Sheinin Research AwardChicago Medical School
- 2014
Physicians of Tomorrow AwardAmerican Medical Association
- 2014
Alpha Omega Alpha Carolyn L. Kuckein Research Fellowship AwardNorthwestern University
- 2014
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, Junior InducteeChicago Medical School
- 2013
Distinction in Research AwardChicago Medical School
- 2013
Fellows Award for Research ExcellenceNational Institutes of Health
Professional memberships
- 2020 - 2021
Fellow MemberAO Spine North America
- 2019 - 2020
ConsultantResident Board, California Association of Neurological Surgeons
- 2018 - 2022
MemberCalifornia Association of Neurological Surgeons
- 2015 - 2020
Teaching AssistantAnnual Medical Student Neurosurgery Training Camp, University of Southern California
- 2015 - present
MemberAmerican Association of Neurological Surgeons
- 2015 - present
MemberCongress of Neurological Surgeons
- 2015 - present
MemberNorth American Spine Society
- 2014 - 2015
Vice PresidentAlpha Omega Alpha, Chicago Medical School
- 2014
Teaching AssistantHealthcare Administration/Management, Chicago Medical School
- 2013
Teaching AssistantNeurosurgery Review Course, Chicago Medical School
- 2011
Teaching AssistantMedical Neuroscience, Chicago Medical School
- 2011
Teaching AssistantMedical Physiology, Chicago Medical School
- 2010 - 2012
Class PresidentClass of 2014, Chicago Medical School
Publications