Clinical Professor and Chief of Neurosurgery
Director of Neuroscience Riverside Community Hospital
UC Riverside School of Medicine
Sam Ghostine, M.D. is Clinical Professor and Chief of Neurosurgery and Director of Neuroscience at Riverside Community Hospital (RCH) and the UC Riverside School of Medicine. He was previously a member of the Neurosurgical faculty at Loma Linda University Medical Center, UC Irvine School of Medicine and Cedars Sinai Medical Center.
Dr Samer Ghostine has experienced international life and education experiences growing up in Beirut, Lebanon where his father, Salim Ghostine, was the Chief Neurosurgery at American University in Beirut beginning in 1965. His son, Samer, had his primary education in Beirut and attended Georgetown University Medical School, and then Neurosurgical Residency at Loma Linda University. He did three years of spine surgery training at Cedars Sinai Spine Center as a resident, then a Fellow and a final year on our faculty before his next career move to UC Irvine.
Dr Ghostine returned to the Inland Empire in the LA basin and has been a leader in building and developing Centers of Excellence in Spine Surgery, Neuro-Oncology, and Stroke management for the Inland Empire and serves as a link in the collaborative effort between RCH and UC Riverside School of Medicine. The clinical program has expanded to provide services in Apple Valley, CA to provide neurosurgery services to patients who are unable to travel to easily Riverside for needed care.
Dr Ghostine has been a premier spine surgeon, educator, and researcher publishing in numerous peer reviewed journals. In 2018, Dr Ghostine and colleague Sam Bederman, M.D., Ph.D., performed the first complex spinal surgery in Riverside using MazorX™, a state-of-the-art robotic guidance system for spine surgery at Riverside Community Hospital and has been building the program to prominence and now beginning a new collaboration UCLA Medical Center.