Neurosurgeon, Spinal/Cranial
Andrew Mark Erwood, MD is a neurosurgeon from Atlanta, GA with a focus in spine surgery. He is the second of five children to parents Margaret and Scott Erwood from Des Moines, Iowa.
Second generation neurosurgeon following his father, Scott, who practiced general neurosurgery in Atlanta, Georgia. His older brother, Matthew Erwood, is also a neurosurgeon with Neurosurgical Associates.
Dr. Erwood studied Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and graduated with highest honors. He then returned to Iowa to attend University of Iowa for medical school and inducted into AOA honor society as a junior.
While there, he completed the research distinction track studying spiral ganglion neuron regeneration under the mentorship of Dr. Marlan Hansen who holds the Brian F. McCabe Distinguished Chair in Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Iowa.
Following his time in Iowa, he returned to Atlanta to complete residency in neurological surgery at Emory University with elective time focus in spine surgery with Dr. Dan Refai who is the director of spinal oncology at the Emory Spine Center.
While a resident, Dr. Erwood served as a CNS Guidelines Fellow, completing abstract review for the CNS Perioperative Spine Guidelines and Brain Metastases Guidelines Updates.
He then moved to Chicago to complete a complex spine fellowship at Northwestern University under the direction of Dr. Tyler Koski with a focus on adult spinal degenerative deformity.
In August of 2023, joined Neurosurgical Associates P.C. and relocated to Birmingham Alabama with his wife Jenna, dog- Finley, and cats- Theadore and Fiona.