Zayed Amer Almadidy MD

Summary

• Dr. Zayed Almadidy is a neurosurgeon based in Chicago, IL, specializing in brain and spinal tumors, neurosurgical spine surgery, and neurotrauma. He completed a neurosurgical MIS spine surgery fellowship at UCLA and his neurological surgery residency at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, as well as spinal deformity fellowship training from the same institution. A 2017 graduate of the Medical University of South Carolina, he has contributed to several publications on topics such as external ventricular drain placement and surgical outcomes in elderly patients, which have been featured in reputable journals such as Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery, Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, and World Neurosurgery. A key opinion leader, Dr. Zayed Almadidy has accrued a social media presence (Dr. Z Neurosurgery) of over 1M followers for his ability to explain complex neurosurgical topics in a digestible manner for the public to consume.