Spine Center

Dr. Cerabona is board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and the American Board of Spine Surgery. He serves as a spinal physician at the New York Downtown Spine Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital and as Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical Center.

He is a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the North American Spine Society. He has published in State-of-the-Art Spine Surgery, in which he contributed to several chapters on spinal biomechanics, and has written chapters in other textbooks on spinal instrumentation and surgical techniques. Dr. Cerabona has also presented at the North American Spine Society, the American Spinal Injury Society and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery.

After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Dr. Cerabona completed a general surgery residency at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center and an orthopaedic residency at St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan. He subsequently completed a fellowship in spinal surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery. He is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Current Orthopaedic Practice.

Dr. Cerabona specializes in adult reconstructive spinal surgery, including cervical and lumbar degenerative conditions, deformities, tumors and trauma. He has completed training programs in advanced surgical techniques for complex spinal deformity, minimally invasive surgery, kyphoplasty, and disc replacement.

Nicholas H. Post, M.D., FAANS, is a board-certified neurosurgeon specializing in the surgical treatment of spinal disorders. He currently serves as Director of the New York Downtown Spine Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital and as Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Dr. Post has extensive experience in complex cervical and lumbar spine surgery, spinal reconstruction, spinal tumors, degenerative spinal conditions, and neurosurgical trauma. Over the course of his career, he has held numerous clinical and hospital leadership positions, including Director of Neuro-Oncology and Director of Peripheral Nerve Surgery at SUNY Downstate Medical Center; Director of Neurosurgical Trauma at NYU Lutheran Medical Center; Director of the Division of Neurosurgery at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, and Nassau University Medical Center; and Associate Director of the Neurosurgical Specialty Center at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center.

Dr. Post received his Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry from Columbia University, where he graduated magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine before completing his general surgery internship and neurosurgical residency at New York University Medical Center. During his residency, he also completed dedicated fellowship training in spine surgery. He is certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery.

Throughout his career, Dr. Post has combined clinical practice with academic medicine, research, and neurosurgical education. His research experience includes work at the Hospital for Special Surgery, the University of Pennsylvania, and Rockefeller University, where he conducted research in the laboratory of Nobel laureate Dr. Joshua Lederberg.

Dr. Post has authored and co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and book chapters addressing cervical and lumbar spine surgery, spinal deformity, spinal cord tumors, minimally invasive spinal techniques, and other areas of neurological surgery. His work has been presented at major national and international scientific meetings, including those of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, North American Spine Society, and Cervical Spine Research Society. His research in cervical spine surgery was recognized with the Mayfield Award for Outstanding Clinical Manuscript from the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves.

Dr. Post's clinical practice is focused on providing comprehensive, individualized care to patients with spinal disorders, drawing upon more than two decades of neurosurgical training, clinical practice, research, and hospital leadership.