Dr. Corey T. Walker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. His clinical interests include treating disorders of the spine and spinal cord. He is focused on healing complex spinal pathologies, including scoliosis, spinal deformities, spinal tumors, thoracic disc herniations and craniocervical junction pathologies. Dr. Walker’s expertise is in using minimally invasive approaches to improve outcomes by applying cutting-edge surgical technologies, including endoscopy, robotics and navigation. Dr. Walker has published extensively in the literature on various topics in spinal neurosurgery.
Prior to beginning at Cedar-Sinai, Dr. Walker earned his bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Rochester, graduating summa cum laude from the Hajim School of Engineering. He stayed at the University of Rochester School of Medicine for medical school on a Dean’s Merit Scholarship and graduated with a Distinction in Research. He went on to complete his residency in Neurosurgery at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, where he also completed fellowships in complex and minimally invasive spine pathologies. He also completed orthopedic spinal fellowship training at Scripps Clinic in San Diego, California through the San Diego Spine Foundation.
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