Dr Young Lu is a graduate of Cornell University after which, he graduated from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. As a medical student, he completed a research fellowship in Spine Surgery. He then completed his orthopedic residency at University of California, Irvine that also included a year dedicated to spine biomechanics and clinical outcomes research. He was then selected for the Combined Neurological and Orthopedic Spine Surgery Fellowship at the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic. The Cleveland Clinic Spine Fellowship is a combined neurosurgery and orthopedic spine surgery program.