Khalid M Abbed MD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery; Chief, Neurosurgery Spine; Director, Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery; Director, Spine Tumor Surgery; Co-Director, YNHH Spine Center

Biographical Info

Dr. Khalid Abbed is a board certified, fellowship trained Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and the Chief of Spine Surgery at the Department of Neurosurgery’s, Co-Director YNHH Spine Center. He is also the Director of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery at Yale. He has a full-time clinical practice at Yale-New Haven Hospital and Greenwich Hospital. Dr. Abbed's area of clinical interest is in the treatment of spinal disorders and his research interests include clinical trials, outcomes studies, and new technologies and innovations in spine surgery. Dr. Abbed was born and raised in Illinois and obtained his bachelor's degree in the Biological Sciences from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. He continued his education at the University of Illinois and received his Doctor of Medicine degree with Honors, ranking first in his class and being elected for admission into Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA), medicine's highest honor society, during his junior year. After medical school, Dr. Abbed completed his internship in Surgery and residency in Neurological Surgery at Harvard University at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He then completed a fellowship in Orthopedic and Neurosurgical Spinal Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic.

Education & Training

BS

University of Illinois (1993)

M.D.

University of Illinois College of Medicine (1999)

Resident

Harvard University/ Massachusetts General Hospital, Neurosurgery (2000 - 2005)

Fellow

Cleveland Clinic, Neurosurgical and Orthopedic Spine Surgery (2006 - 2007)

Board Certification

Neurological Surgery, Board Certified  (2012)

Honors & Recognition

• Scored in top 90th-centile for written Neurosurgery Board Exam
  (2004)
• Alpha Omega Alpha, early induction as junior in medical school
  (1998)
• Scored in top 98th-centile on USMLE Step 1
  (1997)