Job Description

Join the team at Cedars-Sinai, where your work directly impacts lives daily. Our dedication to excellence has earned us six Magnet designations for nursing excellence. Discover why U.S. News & World Report recognizes us as one of America's Best Hospitals!

The Cedars-Sinai Spine Center is a nationally recognized, multidisciplinary program dedicated to the diagnosis, treatment, and long-term management of complex spine conditions. As part of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a leading academic medical center consistently ranked among the top hospitals in the nation, the Spine Center brings together experts in orthopaedic surgery, neurosurgery, physical medicine and rehabilitation, pain management, and advanced imaging to deliver comprehensive, patient-centered care.

The department provides a full spectrum of services, including non-operative care, minimally invasive procedures, complex spinal deformity correction, and advanced surgical interventions. Care is supported by cutting-edge technology, evidence-based practices, and a strong focus on innovation, research, and clinical outcomes. Patients benefit from coordinated care pathways, access to specialized programs, and a commitment to improving function, reducing pain, and enhancing quality of life.

With a collaborative team-based model, the Spine Center emphasizes timely access, individualized treatment plans, and seamless integration across specialties to ensure the highest standards of care for both routine and highly complex spine conditions.

• Provide clinic-based care, including patient evaluations, documentation, and coordination
• Serve as first assist in the operating room for spine procedures
• Participate in pre-operative and post-operative care, including education and follow-up
• Manage patient communications and clinical questions (phone, EMR messaging)
• Conduct peer-to-peer reviews for insurance authorization
• Support post-operative management, including inpatient rounding, recovery monitoring, and wound care
• Opportunity to develop and lead independent clinics over time

Qualifications

Education

• Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant program required.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Experience

• At least one year of experience as a certified Physician Assistant (PA-C) with a focus in Orthopaedic Spine Surgery.
• Experience in Robotics/First Assist is highly preferred.

License/Certification

• Current, unrestricted California PA license.
• DEA License required.
• National PA certification.
• ACLS Life Support certification.

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About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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