Matthew E. Cunningham, MD, PhD

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.

Dr. Sokunbi is a spine surgeon at HSS specializing in degenerative cervical, thoracic and lumbo-sacral conditions as well as deformity and traumatic conditions. He employs a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to spine care across a broad age range from adolescents to the elderly.