
Rafael De La Garza Ramos, MD
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Rafael De la Garza Ramos, MD, is Director, Spine Research at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. De la Garza’s clinical focus centers on complex spine surgery, including primary and metastatic tumors of the spine, spine deformity and salvage procedures.
After earning his Doctor of Medicine at the Ignacio A. Santos School of Medicine at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Monterrey, Mexico, in 2013, Dr. De la Garza came to the United States to continue his medical training. He completed a postdoctoral clinical research fellowship at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2016, followed by a residency in neurosurgery at Montefiore Einstein in 2023. Dr. De la Garza then completed a complex spine surgery fellowship at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in 2024.
Dr. De la Garza’s research focuses on spine oncology, particularly the impact of frailty on surgical outcomes, adverse event prediction, biomechanics of spinal reconstruction in cancer patients and cancer health disparities. Dr. De la Garza has over 200 peer-reviewed publications and holds an h-index of 40. His work has also been presented as both oral presentations and poster presentations at national and international meetings. He is also a reviewer for many scientific journals, including Clinical Spine Surgery, World Neurosurgery and the Journal of Bone Oncology, among others. He is also Associate Editor for Frontiers in Surgery and is on the Scientific Reports editorial board.
Dr. De la Garza is a board eligible neurosurgeon and is a member of several professional societies, including AO Spine, the North American Spine Society, the American Association for Cancer Research and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. In 2023, he received the Charles Kuntz Scholar Award at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons (AANS/CNS) Spine Summit.
Credentials
Education & Training
- Medical Education
- Instituto Technico de Monterrey
- Residency
- Montefiore Medical Center
- Fellowship
- Brown University, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Expertise
Specialties
- Neurosurgery
Accepted Insurance
- 1199SEIU Benefit Funds
- Aetna
- Affinity by Molina Healthcare
- Amidacare
- Anthem BCBS
- Anthem BCBS Healthplus
- ArchCare
- CDPHP
Locations
- Primary LocationMontefiore Spine Center1250 Waters Place Tower I10th FloorBronx, New York 10461
- WPHPA Neurosurgery122 Maple Avenue, 8th FloorWhite Plains, New York 10601-4706
- Department of Neurosurgery3316 Rochambeau AveBronx, New York 10467-2841
- Montefiore Einstein Advanced Care Neurosurgery555 Taxter Road2nd FloorElmsford, New York 10523