Sharad Rajpal MD

Dr. Rajpal received his Medical Degree from the University of Wisconsin, where he continued his training through a residency program in Neurological Surgery. During his training, Dr. Rajpal was the youngest Neurosurgical resident to receive the much coveted Resident Academic Achievement Award, an award he went on to collect twice. For his research on spinal cord injury, Dr. Rajpal was also presented both the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Synthes Spine Fellowship Award (2006) and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves Mayfield Basic Science Award (2007). These national awards are conferred to a single Neurosurgical trainee per year. After residency, Dr. Rajpal went on to complete a combined Orthopedic and Neurological Surgery Spine Fellowship at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. While at the Cleveland Clinic, he gained experience in the latest techniques in spinal oncology, minimal access surgery, and complex spinal deformity.