Dr. S. Samuel Bederman, Orthopedic Surgery

Dr. Samuel Bederman is a double-fellowship trained orthopedic spine surgeon. Dr. Bederman received his medical degree and Orthopedic Surgery residency from the University of Toronto. He then became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada in Orthopaedic Surgery and completed a Spinal Surgery Fellowship at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in Australia. After completing his fellowship, he completed a Doctor of Philosophy in health services research at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Soon after, Dr. Bederman returned for his second clinical fellowship specializing in scoliosis, spinal deformities and revision spinal surgery at the University of California in San Francisco.

Dr. Bederman specializes in scoliosis and kyphosis, robotic spine surgery, spine tumors and fractures, complex revision cervical, thoracic, and lumbar surgery, and minimally invasive spinal surgery. Dr. Bederman is passionate about spine education and has taught as assistant professor at the University of California at San Francisco, Stanford University, the University of California at Irvine and at the Scoliosis and Spine Tumor Center at the Texas Back Institute. He has trained dozens of surgeons in the techniques of Robotic Spine Surgery around the country.

Dr. Bederman has spoken on spinal surgery at society meetings all around the world and authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.  He is a member of the Scoliosis Research Society, the North American Spine Society, the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine, and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

Locations

1120 W La Veta Ave, Suite #300
Orange, CA  92868-4246

Education

• Medical School
  University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Orthopedic Surgery Residency
  University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Spine Surgery Fellowship
  Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia
• Scoliosis and Spine Surgery Fellowship
  UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
• Orthopedic Surgery Research Fellowship
  Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada