Alexander P. Hughes, MD

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Dr. Hughes is a spinal surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery and Associate Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical School. Dr. Hughes has a background in biomedical engineering and approaches each patient and symptom as unique challenges that require custom approaches. He specializes in degenerative, deformity, and trauma-related diseases of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbosacral spine. Dr. Hughes employs innovative, less invasive approaches to the spine whenever possible and indicated. He believes that one of the most critical factors in spine surgery is "getting it right the first time" for maximum benefit and outcomes.

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