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Dr. Andrew Chan serves as Director of Minimally Invasive Scoliosis Surgery and Director of Neurosurgical Spine Research. In patient care, Dr. Chan specializes in surgeries for a variety of conditions, including spinal deformities such as scoliosis and kyphosis, spinal tumors, and degenerative spinal disease (affecting the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine). His surgical techniques range from minimally invasive to complex. Dr. Chan earned his medical degree at Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and completed his residency in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). His additional training includes a fellowship in spinal deformity and minimally invasive complex spine surgery at Duke University. Dr. Chan is focused on improving spine surgical care via his research. He has won multiple awards for his research including: The Neurosurgery Top Spine Paper of the Year with the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS); the Stewart Dunsker Award for Best Clinical Spine Abstract at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS); and the Journalistic and Academic Neurosurgical Excellence (J.A.N.E.) and Mayfield Clinical Science Awards at the AANS/CNS Joint Section Meeting on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves. He also prides himself on his patient care, having received the prestigious Howard Naffziger Award for Outstanding Clinical Service while at UCSF.

Dr. Tiffany Lin is a board-certified anesthesiologist and pain medicine specialist at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. She received her Bachelor of Science in Biology from Duke University and her medical degree from Wake Forest School of Medicine. She completed her residency in anesthesiology at The University of Chicago Medical Center and fellowship training in pain management at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.Her clinical practice includes outpatient and inpatient interventional pain management, acute and chronic pain consultation, general anesthesia, and obstetric anesthesia. She is also an Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, actively involved in resident and fellow education.Dr. Lin’s academic interests include hypermobility, soft tissue pain, low-dose naltrexone, and peripheral neuromodulation. Her research has been published in Nature Neuroscience, Pain Medicine, and other peer-reviewed journals. She serves as a reviewer for the British Journal of Anaesthesia and has contributed to academic textbooks on pain medicine.In addition to her institutional teaching, Dr. Lin is a frequent speaker and educator at national and international conferences, where she provides hands-on instruction in ultrasound-guided pain procedures and lectures on neuromodulation and pharmacologic innovations in chronic pain management. She is also engaged in community outreach through educational webinars and podcasts focused on chronic pain conditions, treatment options, and patient empowerment.