Ravi Verma, MD

Dr. Ravi Verma is a board certified orthopedic spine surgeon. He was born and raised in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Dr. Verma earned his medical degree from Rutgers University – New Jersey Medical School through the highly competitive seven-year medical program with The College of New Jersey. He was one of 12 people selected from a pool of over 400 candidates for this program. He completed his orthopedic surgery residency at New York Medical College (NYMC). While at NYMC, a busy Level 1 regional trauma referral center, he was actively involved in treating patients with orthopedic and spine high-energy trauma injuries. Dr. Verma completed a spine surgery fellowship at the Hospital for Special Surgery, ranked the top orthopedic hospital in the country for the past 10 years. While at HSS, Dr. Verma learned expert techniques in treating spine patients with minimally invasive surgery, scoliosis correction surgery, motion-sparing (nonfusion) spine surgery with artificial disc replacement and using non-narcotic pathways for spine surgery patients. Dr. Verma also treated patients at New York Presbyterian-Cornell and spine oncology patients at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Throughout his education and training, Dr. Verma has maintained a strong interest in researching topics that will benefit his patients. At Rutgers, he was awarded the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Society Medical Student Research Award for his work on the role of diabetes in orthopedic fracture healing. While at NYMC, he studied the effects of hematomas in the spine of polytrauma patients, research for which he won the best clinical paper. In addition, Dr. Verma did extensive research on spine deformity (scoliosis), minimally invasive spine surgery, motion preservation (artificial disc replacement) and the use of non-narcotic pathways in spine surgery. He was one of 10 fellows selected to present his research at the HSS Research Symposium. Dr. Verma also holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) – Certificate in Health Sector Management from Duke University.