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Saman Shabani, MD

Assistant Professor

Location

  • Tosa Health Center
  • 1155 North Mayfair Road
  • Wauwatosa, WI 53226

Specialties

  • Neurosurgery

SpineCare

I believe the best way to treat my patients is to discover what is important to them. By listening to my patients and understanding their needs and the complexity of their disease process, I can provide individualized care to address their medical problems. My philosophy is taking a conservative approach towards patients’ surgical requirements and acknowledging treating patients goes beyond treating their disease. I am dedicated to providing the best patient care and putting their values above all other considerations.

Overview

Diseases and Conditions

  • Disc Herniations
  • Metastatic Bone Disease
  • Scoliosis
  • Spinal Degenerative Disease
  • Spinal Trauma
  • Spine Cancer
  • Kyphosis
  • Spondylolisthesis
  • Cervical Myelopathy
  • Spinal Deformity
  • Spinal Stenosis
  • Failed Back Surgery Syndrome
  • Spinal Cord and Spinal Column Tumors
  • Chordoma

Treatments and Services

  • Arthroscopy
  • Minimally Invasive Surgery
  • Spine Reconstruction
  • Spine Surgery
  • Disk Replacement Surgery
  • Deformity Correction
  • Spine Care
  • Robotic Spine Surgery
  • Revision Spine Surgery
  • Virtual Visit
  • Lateral Interbody Fusion
  • Discectomy of Cervical, Lumbar, Thoracic Spine
  • Enbloc Surgery

Patients Ages Seen

  • Adult
  • Senior

Languages

  • English
  • Farsi

Hospital Affiliations

  • Froedtert Hospital – Milwaukee
  • Froedtert Menomonee Falls Hospital – Menomonee Falls

Clinic Locations

Tosa Health Center

Orthopaedic, Sports and Spine Center

Cancer Center - Froedtert Hospital

Moorland Reserve Health Center

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Biography

Dr. Saman Shabani joined the faculty at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2022. He completed his residency at Medical College of Wisconsin and did fellowship training at University of California – San Francisco in Complex Spine and Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery. He completed his undergraduate studies at University of California – Los Angeles while majoring in Psychobiology. He completed his medical training at Stony Brook School of Medicine in Stony Brook, NY. He is returning to Milwaukee to grow the adult spinal deformity and spinal oncology centers to better serve the patients of Wisconsin.

Dr Shabani’s research has been focused on acute and chronic spinal cord injury, spinal oncology, and adult spinal deformity. He has done extensive clinical research on patient outcomes in adult spinal deformity surgery as well as spinal oncology surgery. Further, he has completed multiple studies on MRI based spinal research in spinal cord injury.

Dr. Shabani has published over 50 peer review papers and received multiple grants. He has won multiple awards including Charlie Kuntz Scholar Award (2022), Young Surgeon Grant and Education Track (2022), Mayfield Based Science Research Award (2017), and Golden Key Honor Society (2010).

Education and Training

Doctor of Medicine - Stony Brook University - Stony Brook, NY (2014)
Residency in Neurological Surgery - Medical College of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, WI (2014-2021)
Fellowship in Complex & Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery - University of California - San Francisco, CA (2021-2022)