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Sierra Neurosurgery Group

MATTHEW AGAM, MD

MINIMALLY INVASIVE SPINE SURGEON

Dr. Angelique Tay, MD, MS
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Dr. Matthew Agam is the only fellowship-trained endoscopic neurosurgeon in Northern
Nevada. At Sierra Neurosurgery Group, he brings advanced training in minimally invasive spine surgery and complex brain and skull base conditions to Reno and Sparks, NV.

Specializing in fully endoscopic spine surgery, Dr. Agam helps patients suffering from
back, neck, and nerve pain find relief and return to the activities they love.

His Philosophy: Patient-First & Conservative Care

Known for his warmth and clear communication, Dr. Agam believes in treating the person, not just the scan.

  • Surgery as a Last Resort: He exhausts all conservative, non-operative options, such as physical therapy and pain management, before recommending surgery.
  • Radical Transparency: He uses clear language and visual aids to explain your condition, making sure you feel like a partner in your own care.
  • Focus on Quality of Life: Every treatment recommendation is tailored to match your personal values and recovery goals.

Specialized Spine & Brain Treatments

For patients looking for a highly specialized back, spine, or brain surgeon, Dr. Agam brings advanced fellowship training to Northern Nevada.

Endoscopic & Minimally Invasive Spine Care

  • Fully-Endoscopic Spine Surgery: Outpatient procedures using an incision smaller than a half-inch. This advanced technique offers minimal pain and a much faster recovery.
  • Herniated Discs & Spinal Stenosis: Specialized relief for pinched nerves and narrowing in the neck or back.
  • Disc Replacement & Spinal Fusion: Advanced options to stabilize the spine, including motion-preserving artificial disc replacement (arthroplasty).
  • Spine Reconstruction: Expert surgical care for spinal deformities and severe trauma.

Brain Surgery & Cranial Care

Brain Tumors: Precision surgery for gliomas, meningiomas, and metastatic brain disease.

  • Neurological Conditions: Advanced treatment for trigeminal neuralgia, Chiari malformation, and hydrocephalus.

Elite Education & Advanced Training

Dr. Agam’s lifelong dedication to the study of the brain and spine includes:

  • Medical Degree: Keck School of Medicine of USC.
  • Neurosurgery Residency: Emory University (Atlanta, GA), among the nation’s busiest and most prestigious surgical training programs.
  • Spine Fellowship: An entire year of specialized, enfolded training in complex, robotic-assisted, and ultra-minimally invasive endoscopic spine surgery.

Proudly Serving Northern Nevada

Dr. Agam was drawn to Sierra Neurosurgery Group’s collaborative culture, where a team of specialists reviews complex cases together to ensure patients get the absolute best care.

With family ties to the Reno area, Dr. Agam was excited to return to Northern Nevada, where he looks forward to being part of a close-knit community, not just as a physician, but as a neighbor patients know and trust.

Outside the clinic, you will find him enjoying everything the Sierra region has to offer, from long-distance trekking and road cycling to enjoying Lake Tahoe. He’s an avid reader, a novice furniture builder, and above all, enjoys spending time with his wife, their two young children, and their dog, Laila.

Dr. Agam Specialties

General Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, including trauma, degenerative spine disease, and more.

  • Fully-Endoscopic Spine Surgery

  • Herniated Discs

  • Spinal Stenosis

  • Disc Replacement Surgery

  • Spinal Fusion Surgery

  • Spine Reconstruction Surgery

  • Brain Tumors Surgery

  • Advanced treatment for Trigeminal Neuralgia

  • Spinal Deformity Surgery
  • Endoscopic Pituitary Tumor Surgery

Dr. Agam’s Advanced Practice Providers Team – COMING SOON

Dr. Agam is available for appointments at these office Locations:

RENO, NV

Sierra Neurosurgery Group
5590 Kietzke Lane
Reno, NV 89511

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SPARKS

5070 Ion Dr. #200
Sparks, NV 89436

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Dr. Agam Curriculum

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Professional Experience

2026 – Present
Private Practice Minimally Invasive Spine Surgeon
Sierra Neurosurgery Group, Reno, Nevada

Education

2015

USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Degree: Bachelor of Science

Major: Neuroscience

2019

Keck School of Medicine of USC

Degree: Doctor of Medicine

2019-2026

Residency, Neurological Surgery

– Emory University Medical Center

2019 – 2026

Enfolded Fellowship, Complex and Minimally Invasive Spine

– Emory University Medical Center

Board Certifications

Board Certified
Board-eligible with the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.

Certifications
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support
Basic Life Support

Honors and Awards

06/2026 – Chief neurosurgery resident of the year award, Grady Memorial Hospital chief       

05/2025 – Invited Faculty, 7th Annual Society of Ethiopian Neurological Surgeons Meeting, Addis Ababa 

12/2023 – Resident Paper Contest Winner; top resident paper; Georgia Neurosurgical Society Fall Meeting

10/2017 – Integra Foundation Award; best clinical research paper; tumors, Congress of Neurological Surgeons Meeting

02/2018 – Innovations in Med. Education Stephen Abrahamson Award for Innovation       

05/2017 – MEDSTARS Finalist for best surgical research, Keck School of Medicine

05/2017 – Most Meritorious Poster at the 2017 Medical Student Research Forum & Poster Day       

06/2016 – 08/2016 – Keck Summer Research Fellow

01/2016 – 08/2017 – USC Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fellow, 3-time recipient

Hospital Affiliations

Current

St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center, Reno, Nevada

Renown Regional Medical Center, Reno, Nevada

Northern Nevada Medical Center, Sparks, Nevada

Medical Licensure

Nevada – October 2025 – Present

Professional Memberships

2026 – Present

American Association of Neurological Surgeons

Research Experience

Publications:

  • Zohdy Y, Faraj R, Agam M, et al. The Utility of Hematologic Investigations as a Biomarker for Spheno-orbital Meningiomas.  Journal of Neurosurgery.  Submitted 2/2026.
  • Zohdy Y, Jahangiri A, Alawieh A, Agam M, et al. Superior Orbital Fissure Narrowing and Tumor-Associated Pain in Spheno-Orbital Meningiomas. Acta Neurochirurgica.  2024;166(113).  PMID: 38416213
  • Zohdy Y, Jacob F, Agam M, et al. Volumetric analysis of spheno-orbital meningiomas: prognostic correlation and a compartmentalized approach. Neurosurgery.  2023;00(1-9).  PMID: 37931131
  • Zohdy Y, Agam M, Maldonado J, Jahangiri A, Pradilla G, Garzon-Muvdi T. Symptomatic intracranial tumors is pregnancy: an updated management algorithm. Illustrative case. Journal of Neurosurgery Case Lessons. 2023;5(19).PMID: 37158391
  • Micko A, Agam M, Brunswick A, et al. Treatment strategies for giant pituitary adenomas in the era of endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery: a multicenter series. Journal of Neurosurgery. 2022;136(3).  PMID: 34388714
  • Saad H, Bray DP, McMahon JT, et al. Permanent Cerebrospinal Fluid Diversion in Adults with Posterior Fossa Tumors: Incidence and Predictors. Neurosurgery. 2021;89(6).  PMID: 34561703
  • Agam M, Wedemeyer MA, Wrobel B, Weiss MH, Carmichael JD, Zada G. Complications associated with microscopic and endoscopic transsphenoidal pituitary surgery: Experience of 1153 consecutive cases treated at a single tertiary care pituitary center. Journal of Neurosurgery. 2019;130(5).  PMID: 29999459
  • Agam M, Zada G. Complications associated with transsphenoidal pituitary surgery: Review of the literature. In: Clinical Neurosurgery. Vol 65. ; 2018.  PMID: 31076790
  • Olsen RHJ, Agam M, Davis MJ, Raber J. ApoE isoform-dependent deficits in extinction of contextual fear conditioning. Genes, Brain and Behavior. 2012;11(7).  PMID 22883220

Oral Presentations:

  • Agam M.  Global Health Residency Scholars Program (GHRSP) debrief and global health overview.        07/2025 Emory Neurosurgery Grand Rounds | Atlanta, GA                          
  • Agam M, Greenhill M.  Combined neurosurgery/neuroradiology case conference presentation.        06/2025 Emory Neurosurgery Grand Rounds | Atlanta, GA                              
  • Agam M.  Ultra-minimally invasive spine surgery: advances and techniques.|  05/2025 | 7th Annual Society of Ethiopian Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia       
  • Agam M, Ahmad F.  High grade L5-S1 spondylolisthesis: evaluation and management strategies.         12/2024 | Georgia Neurosurgical Society 2024 Fall Annual Meeting | Lake Oconee, GA         
  • Agam M, Steed T, Gutierrez JM, Gary M.  Proximal junctional kyphosis after long segment thoracolumbar fusion: impact of upper segment screw trajectory on radiographic kyphosis and reoperation.| 10/2024 | George T. Tindall Resident Research Day | Atlanta, GA                            
  • Agam M, Ahmad F.  High grade L5-S1 spondylolisthesis: evaluation and management strategies.        08/2024 |  Emory Neurosurgery Grand Rounds, Complex Case Conference | Atlanta, GA                        
  • Agam M, Steed T, Gutierrez JM, Gary M.  Proximal junctional kyphosis after long segment thoracolumbar fusion: impact of upper segment screw trajectory on radiographic kyphosis and reoperation. |  12/2023. |Georgia Neurosurgical Society 2023 Fall Annual Meeting | Lake Oconee, GA
  • Agam M, Sanders J.  Combined Neurosurgery/Neuroradiology Case Conference Presentation       10/2023 | Emory Neurosurgery Grand Rounds | Atlanta, GA                        
  • Agam M, Pasyk M.  Combined Neurosurgery/Neuroradiology Case Conference Presentation        01/2023  | Emory Neurosurgery Grand Rounds | Atlanta, GA                          
  • Agam M, Nelson A, Nguyen DT, Shah I, Vo A.  Keck Online Learning Initiative: Evaluating a Medical Education E-Learning Innovation. | 11/2018 | American Evaluation Association 32nd Annual Conference | Cleveland, OH            
  • Nelson A, Nguyen DT, Agam M, Schooner L, Vo A.  Keck Online Learning Initiative: Improving a Medical School Peer Education Model. |  11/2018 |. American Evaluation Association 32nd Annual Conference | Cleveland, OH                        
  • Nguyen BS, Agam M, Nelson A, Vo A.  How do first year medical students study?  Investigating an institutional E-learning initiative in its second year. | 02/2018 | Innovations in Medical Education Conference 2018 | Los Angeles, CA                     
  • Agam M, Wedemeyer MA, Weiss MH, Carmichael JD, Zada G.  Complications associated with transsphenoidal pituitary surgery: experience of 1,171 consecutive cases treated at a single tertiary care pituitary center. |Congress of Neurological Surgeons 2017 Annual Meeting | Boston, MA | 10/2017
  • Agam M, Inaba K, Recinos G, Lam L, Benjamin E, Grabo D, Demetriades D.  The injured cyclist: an epidemiological analysis of cyclist trauma and the effects of drug and alcohol use on injury severity and outcome. | Surgical Grand Rounds MEDSTARS Competition, Keck SOM Dept. of Surgery | Los Angeles, CA | 05/2017
  • Agam M, Inaba K, Recinos G, Lam L, Benjamin E, Grabo D, Demetriades D.  The injured cyclist: an epidemiological analysis of cyclist trauma and the effects of drug and alcohol use on injury severity and outcome.  Southern California Chapter of the American College of Surgeons 2017 Annual Scientific Meeting | Santa Barbara, CA  |  01/2017
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