Arien J Smith

About Arien J Smith

Arien J Smith, MD, is an American neurosurgeon and the head of the Brain and Spine Institute of New York and New Jersey. A native of Seoul, South Korea, Smith specializes in complex spine surgery for adult and pediatric patients. Fellow-trained and board-certified by the Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) and Neurological Surgeons (FAANS), Dr. Smith has been practicing medicine for over 20 years and is affiliated with several top-performing hospitals, including Hackensack University Medical Center and the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospitals of New Jersey, along with Mount Sinai West and Kings County Hospital Center in New York.

Dr. Smith has gained an impressive reputation for treating patients with disorders associated with the brain and spine, including back pain caused by degenerative conditions, spine fractures caused by trauma, spine deformities including scoliosis and spinal stenosis, along with disk herniation, a common and painful back condition often caused by repetitive motion or a sports or auto injury.

A graduate of Yale University Medical School of Medicine, Smith was awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellowship, a prestigious program that offers entrance into an immersive community of peers with the aim of promoting professional development and mentorship with established physicians and scientists. Here, Arien Smith collaborated with Dr. Robert Schulman to publish the landmark paper “Cerebral Energetics And Spiking Frequency: The Neuropsychological Basis Of fMRI (2002)”. Since then, Smith has been a research partner and writer of an impressive portfolio of important medical abstracts, presentations, and white papers.