Jeff S. Silber, MD, DC, is a Full-Time Academic Spine Surgeon in the Northwell Health System He is Associate Chairman and Chief of Orthopaedic Spinal surgery at LIJ. He holds the academic position as Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Hofstra Medical School. He is extremely active in educating orthopedic residents and medical students. He specializes in degenerative spinal surgery in a multi-disciplinary setting. He has authored over 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles and has written over 20 textbook chapters on spinal related topics. He completed his orthopaedic residency training at the University of Pennsylvania and then a combined orthopaedic and neurosurgical Spine Fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.