Edward Yoon, MD

Dr. Yoon is advancing minimally invasive care for spine and musculoskeletal pain. He has led the division at HSS since 2021 and also serves as associate professor of radiology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.

A summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, Ed earned his medical degree at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, completed residency at Stony Brook University Hospital and trained in musculoskeletal radiology at HSS and in interventional pain and spine at Clinical Radiology of Oklahoma. He is board certified in radiology and interventional pain medicine.

His nominator and former fellowship director calls him an excellent clinician and a prolific researcher, and the record bears that out. He has authored more than a dozen peer-reviewed articles and five book chapters on topics including disc regeneration, vertebral augmentation, sacroplasty and nerve ablation, and his research has earned RSNA and Society of Skeletal Radiology awards.

Dr. Yoon is a sought-after teacher, leading invited lectures and hands-on cadaver labs for national spine, pain and radiology societies and speaking in London, South Korea and Peru. At HSS, he has mentored musculoskeletal radiology fellows since 2019, and he reviews for several leading journals.