Dr. Akash A. Shah is a Resident Physician in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, UCLA Medical Center. He is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and a recipient of the Regenerative Musculoskeletal Medicine Training Grant as part of an NIH T32 Training Grant. He will be pursuing a spine surgery fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women's Hospital. Dr. Shah received an Oracle for Research project award for machine learning analyses in orthopaedic traumatology. His clinical interests include artificial intelligence for applications in spine and oncology.

Dr. Joseph Schwab is the director of Spine Oncology for Orthopaedic Surgery and the director of the Center for Surgical Technology and AI Research at Cedars-Sinai. Dr. Schwab received his medical degree and a master's degree in clinical pathology from Chicago Medical School and completed his residency at the Mayo Clinic, followed by fellowships in spine surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York and the Rizzoli Institute in Bologna, Italy. He also completed a fellowship in orthopedic oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and received a second master’s degree from the Harvard/MIT Clinical Investigator Training Program. He specializes in the management of benign and malignant bone tumors as well as spinal disorders, including stenoses and myelopathy.