Luis Kolb, M.D.

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Get to know Neurosurgeon Dr. Luis Kolb, who serves patients throughout the State of Connecticut.

Dr. Kolb is a neurosurgeon at Yale Neurosurgery, seeing patients in New Haven, Stamford, and Greenwich, Connecticut. His practice is predominantly spinal surgery and includes cervical and thoracolumbar deformity reconstruction, oncology, trauma, degenerative disease, and complex revision surgery. His subspecialty interests include surgical outcomes, spinal biomechanics, spinal oncology, spinal deformity, and minimally invasive spinal techniques.

Many of the patients he sees have previously bounced from doctor to doctor without any significant improvement. “The most rewarding part of my job is seeing these patients, treating them and having their pain finally go away. They’re back at work and returning to their favorite activities,” expressed Dr. Kolb.

Back in the early days of his academic career, he completed his undergraduate training at Johns Hopkins University where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Romance Languages and Literature. He graduated with his medical degree from Yale School of Medicine after which he remained in New Haven where he finished a residency in neurosurgery at Yale-New Haven Hospital. After his neurosurgical training, he remained on staff and completed a CAST and AO Spine accredited post-residency fellowship in complex spinal surgery.

As a testament of his continued education, the doctor is board-certified in neurosurgery by the American Board of Neurological Surgery, whose broad aim is to encourage the study, improve the practice, elevate the standards, and advance the science of neurological surgery and thereby serve the cause of public health.

Maintaining membership status, Dr. Kolb is a member of numerous organizations, including the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the AANS/CNS Joint Spine Section, the American Medical Association, the AO Society, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the North American Spine Society, and the European Association of Neurological Societies.

Teaching students, he serves as a Professor of Neurosurgery at the Yale School of Medicine. His research interests focus on clinical outcomes of spinal surgery, as well as genetic diseases that influence spinal pathology. He particularly focuses on revision surgeries or complex cases. 

Neurosurgery is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, surgical treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and extra-cranial cerebrovascular system. Neurosurgeons are doctors who diagnose and treat problems with the nervous system, often by performing surgery on the brain or spine. They treat strokes, tumors, certain types of birth defects, infections, and head or spinal cord injuries.

Among his most notable achievements, Dr. Kolb has been the recipient of the Patients’ Choice Award (2018), On-Time Doctor Award (2018), and Compassionate Doctor Recognition (2018).

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