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Edward H. Scheid, Jr., MD
Dr. Edward Scheid is a board-certified neurosurgeon. He is the president and founder of Capital Region Neurosurgery, PLLC.
Dr. Scheid was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and graduated with Honors in 1994 from John Carroll University, in Cleveland, Ohio, where he received the Presidential Scholarship for Academic Achievement. He then studied medicine at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Scheid graduated with Honors from medical school in 1998, finishing as one of the top five students in a class of over 230 graduates. He was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha and Hobart Amory Hare Honor Medical Societies. He remained at Jefferson for his internship in General Surgery and completed his residency in Neurosurgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and the Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience. Dr. Scheid spent several years training at the Delaware Valley Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center, a national center of excellence for the treatment of spinal disorders, where he perfected his techniques in spinal surgery and had the unique opportunity to learn from world class neurosurgical and orthopaedic spine surgeons.
Dr. Scheid's interest in brain tumors led him to study Gamma Knife Radiosurgery, a non-invasive technique for various tumors and other brain diseases, at the University of Pittsburgh, the world’s leading center for radiosurgery. Dr. Scheid is interested in the management of all disorders of the brain, spine, and peripheral nerves, but has special interest in complex spinal disorders, brain tumors and minimally invasive spine and brain surgery.
During his training, Dr.Scheid trained extensively in neuromodulation and spinal cord stimulation, a new and minimally invasive way of treating chronic pain in people who have failed conventional spine surgery or who have been told that they are not candidates for traditional spine surgery.
Dr. Scheid has specialized training in minimally invasive spine surgery, kyphoplasty, artificial disc replacement therapies, and interventional spine procedures.
Dr. Scheid has authored a chapter dealing with the material properties of spinal implants as well as several abstracts on aneurysms and cerebrovascular surgery. In addition, he has authored an article on early tracheostomy in cervical spinal cord injury, which appeared in the January 2004 issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery-Spine. His research interests include traumatic cervical spinal cord injury and the pain generating mechanisms involving dorsal root ganglia. He is actively involved in the design and development of several new spinal implants.
Dr. Scheid is a member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the North American Spine Society, the American Medical Association, and the Medical Society of the State of New York. Dr. Scheid currently serves on the St. Peter's Hospital Foundation Board.