Jang Won Yoon, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Co-director of Complex Spine Fellowship, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania
Director of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania
Principal Investigator, Surgical Predictive Insights & Neuro-Data Engineering (SPINE) Lab
Department: Neurosurgery
Contact information
Pennsylvania Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery
801 Spruce Street, 8th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
801 Spruce Street, 8th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Education:
BSc
University of Maryland Baltimore County - Baltimore, MD, 2006.
MSc
Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences - Washington DC, MD, 2008.
MD (Medicine)
Georgetown University School of Medicine - Washington DC, MD, 2012.
Permanent linkBSc
University of Maryland Baltimore County - Baltimore, MD, 2006.
MSc
Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences - Washington DC, MD, 2008.
MD (Medicine)
Georgetown University School of Medicine - Washington DC, MD, 2012.
Selected Publications
Yohannes Ghenbot, John D Arena, Mert Marcel Dagli, Dominick Macaluso, Sennay Ghenbot, Connor Wathen, Harmon S. Khela, Hasan S Ahmad, Gabrielle Santangelo, Joshua L. Golubovsky, Johnny Wright, Jonathan Heintz, Zarina S Ali, Neil R Malhotra, William C Welch, Jang W Yoon, Vincet Arlet, Ali K. Ozturk: The influence of the magnitude of sagittal correction and local junctional factors on proximal junctional kyphosis and failure following correction of adult spinal deformity: an inverse probability weighted analysis. JNS:Spine March 2025.Ghenbot Y, Golubovsky J, Ahmad H, Arena JD, Santangelo G, Wathen C, Ghenbot R, Dagli MM, Chauhan D, Ling-Lin EP, Yoon JW: Technical feasibility and safety of transpedicular thoracic partial corpectomy using biportal endoscopic technique: a novel approach for separation surgery in spinal metastatic disease. World Neurosurg 194(Suppl 1), Feb 2025 Notes: 194(Suppl 1):123582.
Chauhan D, Ahmad H, Park K, Ghenbot Y, Subtirelu R, Turlip R, Bryan K, Wang PT, Bashti M, Dmitriy P, Zarina A, Ozturk A, Malhotra N, Basil GW, Yoon JW: Smartphone accelerometers as tools to study the effect of socioeconomic disparities in neurosurgical outcomes: a multi-institutional retrospective analysis. Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine Page: 1-10, Jan 2025.
Dagli MM, Turlip RW, Oettl FC, Emara M, Gujral J, Chauhan D, Ahmad HS, Santangelo G, Wathen C, Ghenbot Y, Arena JD, Golubovsky JL, Gu BJ, Shin JH, Yoon JW, Ozturk AK, Welch WC: Comparison of Outcomes Between Staged and Same-Day Circumferential Spinal Fusion for Adult Spinal Deformity: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. JMIR Jan 2025 Notes: https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/67290.
Turlip R, Miranda S, Ahmad H, Chauhan D, Ghenbot Y, Dagli M, Yoon JW: Synovial Cyst Resection Using Bi-Portal Endoscopic Technique: 2-Dimensional Operative Video. Op Neurosurg 2025.
Chung R, Turlip R, Chauhan D, Dagli M, Ahmad H, Ghenbot Y, Yoon JW: Unilateral Biportal Endoscopic (UBE) Technique for Multi-Level Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion: 2-Dimensional Operative Video. Op Neurosurg 2025.
Karsalia R, Borja AJ, Xu E, Gallagher RS, Na J, McClintock SD, Marcotte PJ, Ozturk AK, Schuster JM, Yoon JW, Malhotra NR: The "July Effect" Scrutinized: A Coarsened-Exact Match Analysis of Lumbar Fusion Outcomes During Resident Transition Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery 108686(0303-8467), Dec 2024 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clineuro.2024.108686. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303846724005730).
Chung RJ, Chauhan D, Ahmad HS, Turlip R, Bryan K, Wang P, Dagli MM, Ghenbot Y, Masood Z, Yoon JW: Unilateral Biportal Endoscopic (UBE) Technique for Multi-Level Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion: 2-Dimensional Operative Video. Op Neurosurg Dec 2024.
Golubovsky J, Dagli MM, Gu B, Ghenbot Y, Arena J, Welch W, Yoon J, Casper D, Arlet V, Ozturk A: Durotomy in adult spinal deformity surgery increases short term morbidity but does not portend poor long-term outcomes in a large single-institution patient cohort: a multi-center propensity-scored observational study. JNS:Spine Dec 2024.
Chung RJ, Chauhan D, Ahmad HS, Turlip R, Bryan K, Wang P, Dagli MM, Ghenbot Y, Masood Z, Yoon JW.: Single-Level Endoscopic Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion With Fluoroscopy-Based Instrument Tracking: A 2-Dimensional Operative Video. Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown) Dec 2024.