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Saman Shabani, MD

Saman Shabani, MD

Assistant Professor; Director, Spinal Oncology Surgery; Director, Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery; Director, Spine Fellowship Program

Locations

  • Neurosurgery
    8701 Watertown Plank Rd.
    Milwaukee, WI 53226

Education

Fellowship in Complex & Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, University of California - San Francisco, CA, 2022
Neurological Surgery Residency, 黑料官网, Milwaukee, WI, 2021
MD, Stony Brook University, New York, NY, 2014
BS in Psychobiology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 2010
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Biography

Dr. Saman Shabani joined the faculty at the 黑料官网 in 2022. He completed his residency at the 黑料官网 and pursued 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 and 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 focuses 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-reviewed papers and received multiple grants. He also 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).

Board Certification

  • American Board of Neurological Surgery

Clinical Programs

Research Interests

  • Acute and chronic spinal cord injury
  • Spinal oncology
  • Adult spinal deformity

Publications

  • (Ambati VS, Shabani S, Mummaneni PV, Chryssikos T, Patel A, Ravikumar C, Dada A, Rechav Ben-Natan A, Huang J, Jamieson A, Park K, Macki M, Tawil ME, Guinn J, Wu HH, Wang M, Duan PG, Xi Z, Burch S, Berven S, Chou D, Tan LA.) J Neurosurg Spine. 2026 Apr 03:1-10 PMID: 41931838 04/03/2026

  • (Shahbandi A, Palmer P, Wojcik K, Ghamasaee P, Shabani S.) Spine J. 2026 Apr;26(4):767-778 PMID: 41482187 01/03/2026

  • (Shahbandi A, Wojcik K, Shabani S.) Global Spine J. 2026 Mar 30:21925682261436347 PMID: 41911359 PMCID: PMC13035694 03/30/2026

  • (Perez Rodriguez Garcia G, Alotaibi A, Yousefi O, Shahbandi A, Ghamasaee P, Kassab AMY, Bokhari R, Abd-El-Barr M, Shabani S, Bakhaidar M.) Neurosurg Rev. 2026 Mar 16;49(1) PMID: 41838199 03/16/2026

  • (Boukhiam M, Alotaibi A, Yousefi O, Garcia GPR, Shahbandi A, Shabani S, Abd-El-Barr MM, Bakhaidar M.) N Am Spine Soc J. 2026 Mar;25:100837 PMID: 41584314 PMCID: PMC12830103 01/26/2026

  • (Shahbandi A, Ghamasaee P, Yassin Kassab AM, Shabani S.) World Neurosurg. 2026 Feb;206:124776 PMID: 41485598 01/05/2026

  • (Bagherzadeh S, Sadeh M, Shabani S, Salmanian S, Saleh D, Rubio DS, Kim P, Alikhani P, Rostami M.) Eur Spine J. 2026 Feb;35(2):332-341 PMID: 41123610 10/22/2025

  • (Bokhari R, Bakhaidar M, Alnaseem A, Bajunaid K, Aljohani O, Alwadai M, Shabani S, Navarro-Ramirez R, Hofstetter CP, Abd-El-Barr M.) Global Spine J. 2026 Jan 24:21925682261416421 PMID: 41578883 PMCID: PMC12831654 01/24/2026

  • (Shahbandi A, Ghamasaee P, Yassin Kassab AM, Shabani S.) Global Spine J. 2026 Jan;16(1):483-495 PMID: 40479528 PMCID: PMC12144038 06/06/2025

  • (Peterson A, Shahbandi A, Mattheisen H, Ghamasaee P, Yassin Kassab AM, Bakhaidar M, Shabani S.) Cureus. 2025 Aug;17(8):e90744 PMID: 40984945 PMCID: PMC12450361 09/23/2025

  • (Ghamasaee P, Shahbandi A, Yassin Kassab AM, Bakhaidar M, Escalante R, Shabani S.) Neurosurg Focus Video. 2025 Jul;13(1):V7 PMID: 40747276 PMCID: PMC12308743 08/01/2025

  • (Bakhaidar MG, Shahbandi A, Shabani S.) Oper Neurosurg. 2025 Apr 28;29(1):164 PMID: 40293250 04/28/2025

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