Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Director, The Johns Hopkins Bayview Spine Program

Dr. Timothy Witham currently serves as associate professor of neurosurgery at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, director of The Johns Hopkins Bayview Spine Program, and director of The Johns Hopkins Neurosurgery Spinal Fusion Laboratory.  

A co-author of over 170 peer-reviewed articles and abstracts, his interests include the surgical treatment of degenerative conditions of the cervical and lumbar spine to include instrumented fusion and deformity correction procedures. Board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery, Dr. Witham’s research interests include finding novel ways to achieve spinal fusion and improving surgical techniques in the aging spine..

Dr. Witham received his medical degree from The Johns Hopkins University. He completed an internship in general surgery and a residency in neurological surgery at the University of Pittsburgh, as well as advanced training in complex reconstructive spinal surgery and spinal oncology at Johns Hopkins under the direction of Dr. Ziya Gokaslan.

His seminar entitled The Back Story: Straight from the Expert is scheduled for Session III: (2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.).