The University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine welcomes Associate Professor Patrick Reid, MD, a board-certified neurosurgeon with expertise in spinal neurosurgery, to the Department of Neurosurgery.

The growing neurosurgery department drew Reid to CU Anschutz from the east coast.

“There is a lot of opportunity as the department grows,” Reid says. “The high volume and academic setting offers a lot of opportunity and interesting problems to solve.”

In addition to clinical opportunities at CU Anschutz, Reid looks forward to working with the neurosurgical residents and spine fellows. “I get to introduce the residents to spine surgery and watch them improve,” Reid says.

Reid’s comprehensive training gives him a wide scope of practice, with clinical interest in minimally invasive surgery, primary and metastatic spine tumors, and revision and deformity correction procedures. He will work collaboratively with faculty members in the Department of Neurosurgery and in the Department of Orthopedics at the UCHealth Spine Center – Anschutz Outpatient Pavilion.

Reid completed his residency training at the University of Southern California, with an enfolded fellowship in orthopedic spine surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. He then completed a post graduate year concentrating on complex deformity and tumor surgery under Chris Ames, MD, and Vedat Deviren, MD, at the University of California, San Francisco. 

After his training, he spent four years performing spine surgery at Columbia University as a faculty member in the Department of Neurosurgery before joining Mount Sinai as the director of spinal neurosurgical oncology for the health system.

"I'm excited to work with my neurosurgical, pain management, and orthopedic colleagues to provide excellent care for our patients, while leveraging the university's impressive academic resources to help push the field of spine care forward,” Reid says.