
Dr. John H. Shin, MD, Boston, MA, 02114
Massachusetts General Hospital - Neurosurgical Service
Department of Neurosurgery
15 Parkman Street - WAC 745
Boston, Massachusetts 02114 United States
15 Parkman Street - WAC 745
Boston, Massachusetts 02114 United States
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Dr. John H. Shin, MD, Boston, MA, 02114
Dr. John Shin is a fellowship trained Neurosurgeon in Boston, MA who specializes in minimally invasive spine surgery and innovative spine techniques to treat spinal tumors, degenerative disc disease as well as disorders and injuries of the spine.
Dr. Shin not only treats patients with spine and neurological conditions, but he also is an Instructor in Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Additionally, he has participated in a number of research opportunities. Dr. Shin's research interests include multimodality treatments for metastatic spinal tumors, radiobiology and spinal cord tolerance, clinical trials, patient outcomes and quality of life studies and spine biomechanics.
Type of Spine Care Professional
Neurosurgeon
Languages
English
Areas of Expertise
Conditions
- Auto-related injuries
- Back pain
- Brain Injuries
- Brain Tumors
- Cancer
- Cervical spine disorders
- Complex Spinal Disorders
- Degenerative disc disease
- Degenerative spinal conditions
- Failed back surgery syndrome
- Head injury
- Headache / migraine
- Herniated disc / bulging disc
- Lumbar spine disorders
- Migraine headaches
- Myelopathy
- Neck disorders
- Neck pain
- Nerve pain / neuralgia
- Post Surgery Pain
- Sciatica / radiculopathy
- Scoliosis and deformity
- Spinal cord injury
- Spinal stenosis
- Spinal Tumors
- Spine Conditions
- Spondylolisthesis
- Sports injuries
- Thoracic spine disorders
- Trauma
- Tumors
- Upper back pain
- Whiplash
Treatments
- Back surgery
- Cervical spine fusion instrumentation
- Cervical spine surgery
- Discectomy
- Laminectomy / decompression surgery
- Lumbar spine fusion instrumentation
- Microdiscectomy / microdecompression
- Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Neck surgery
- Reconstructive / revision spine surgery
- Spinal cord stimulation
- Spinal cord surgery
- Spinal Decompression
- Spinal fusion
- Spine Surgery
- Upper back surgery
- Upper cervical specific techniques
Professional Distinctions
- Instructor in Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School
- Fellowship, Neurosurgery and Orthopedic Spine Surgery - 2010
- Fellowship, Stereotactic Spine Radiosurgery - 2011