Dr. Pollina is an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at University at Buffalo. He is a board certified neurosurgeron, serves as Director of Comprehensive Spine Surgery. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in economics from Fairfield University, Dr. Pollina completed medical school and his neurosurgical residency at University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Pollina’s focus is on the treatment of disorders of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine. His areas of expertise are in low back and neck pain, herniated disc, spinal stenosis, scoliosis, spinal instability, spinal tumor and infection, carpal/cubital tunnel syndrome, and intracranial pathology.  Dr. Pollina’s research interests include motion sparing/preserving technology of the spine, minimal access approaches and techniques to the spine, osteo-biologics of spinal fusion, and spine surgery outcome-based research. Dr. Pollina performs surgeries at Buffalo General Medical Center.