Honors and Awards

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Dr. Hua completed the 7 year Neurosurgery residency program at Johns Hopkins, where neurosurgery was first established as a specialty by Harvey Cushing.  Hopkins is one of the oldest and most prestigious neurosurgery training programs in the world.

Dr. Hua is the only Neurosurgeon or Orthopedic surgeon specializing in mimially invasive spine surgery given this honor in the South Bay.  Recipients are nominated by area doctors who refer patients.

Dr. Hua completed undergrad and medical school education at the Honors Program in Medical Education at Northwestern University, one of the top combined programs.  Dr. Hua also finished a Ph.D. at Northwestern as well.