Affiliation: Brown University, Warren Alpert School of Medicine

Albert Telfeian, MD, PhD is a Professor of Neurosurgery at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University, director of minimally invasive endoscopic spine surgery at Rhode Island Hospital, and Vice Chairman of Quality Assurance for the Department of Neurosurgery at Brown.

Dr. Telfeian is a graduate of the MD/PhD program at Brown University. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University and his neurosurgical residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He also completed fellowship training in spine and functional epilepsy surgery at Switzerland’s Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and a pediatric neurosurgery fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Telfeian has published extensively in the areas of epilepsy, functional and spine surgery and is currently involved in the research and development of minimally invasive endoscopic surgical techniques.