Andrew R. Leggett, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon practicing at New Jersey Spine Institute in Bedminster, New Jersey. The practice says he is accepting new patients.
Leggett’s training path includes medical school at the Medical University of South Carolina, orthopedic surgery residency at Rutgers–New Jersey Medical School, and the Louis A. Goldstein Spine Fellowship at the University of Rochester, which his practice profile dates from August 2024 to August 2025.
His professional record also includes spine research, including publications on lumbar giant cell tumor management and short-term complications following vertebral augmentation. His training and current New Jersey practice are the clearest documented threads through his public career.
Need to know
- Andrew R. Leggett, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon practicing in Bedminster, New Jersey.
- His practice profile lists an orthopedic surgery residency at Rutgers–New Jersey Medical School from July 2019 to July 2024 and the University of Rochester’s Louis A. Goldstein Spine Fellowship from August 2024 to August 2025; the same page also still says he “is completing” the fellowship.
- His practice lists cervical and lumbar fusion, minimally invasive spine surgery and care for several degenerative and traumatic spine conditions among his clinical areas.
- Leggett has co-authored orthopedic and spine research, including work published in Diagnostics, the International Journal of Spine Surgery and Spine Deformity.
- His individual practice profile currently describes him as board-eligible. Current American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery certification was not independently established in the reviewed record.
Andrew Leggett profile summary
| Detail | Verified information |
|---|---|
| Full name | Andrew R. Leggett, MD |
| Profession | Orthopedic spine surgeon |
| Current practice | New Jersey Spine Institute |
| Location | Bedminster, New Jersey |
| Medical school | Medical University of South Carolina |
| Residency | Rutgers–New Jersey Medical School, orthopedic surgery |
| Fellowship | Louis A. Goldstein Spine Surgery Fellowship, University of Rochester, 2024–2025 |
| Current board-status wording | Board-eligible, according to his practice profile |
Education and surgical training
Leggett’s New Jersey Spine Institute biography lists a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University, completed between 2009 and 2013, and medical education at the Medical University of South Carolina from 2015 to 2019.
From July 2019 to July 2024, Leggett completed an orthopedic surgery residency at Rutgers–New Jersey Medical School in Newark.
Leggett’s practice profile dates the Louis A. Goldstein Spine Fellowship at the University of Rochester from August 2024 to August 2025. The same page also still says he “is completing” the fellowship, leaving its current-status wording internally inconsistent.
The dated fellowship entry and the page’s present-tense wording do not by themselves establish whether the profile is fully up to date on his training status.
What kind of spine surgery does he practice?
New Jersey Spine Institute describes Leggett as an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in cervical and lumbar spine surgery. His listed areas include anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, commonly abbreviated as ACDF; lumbar fusion; minimally invasive spine surgery; and treatment of conditions including degenerative disc disease, radiculopathy, myelopathy and spinal trauma.
His practice profile also describes a conservative-first philosophy: nonsurgical treatment is preferred when appropriate, with surgery used when necessary. When an operation is indicated, the practice says he uses minimally invasive approaches where suitable.
The same page makes an important boundary explicit. It says Leggett does not perform kyphoplasty, vertebroplasty, scoliosis surgery or pediatric procedures. That is worth distinguishing from his academic work, because his published research includes vertebral augmentation. Authorship of a study does not, by itself, mean that the procedure or condition is part of his current surgical practice.
Research and published work
Research has been a continuing part of Leggett’s professional development rather than a separate chapter detached from his clinical training.
In 2022, while training at Rutgers–New Jersey Medical School, he was first author of a paper titled Diagnosis and Treatment of Lumbar Giant Cell Tumor of the Spine: Update on Current Management Strategies, published in Diagnostics. The paper examined management approaches for giant cell tumors affecting the lumbar spine.
His Rutgers-era publication record later included work on spine-surgery complications. A 2023 article in the International Journal of Spine Surgery listed Leggett among the authors on enhanced risk stratification for short-term complications following vertebral augmentation for osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures.
The selected-publications list on his practice profile also includes a 2020 Current Orthopaedic Practice article, a 2022 Diagnostics article and the 2023 International Journal of Spine Surgery article.
Together, these publications show a research record covering spine tumors and surgical complications. They are best understood as evidence of scholarly participation, not as a catalog of procedures he personally offers in practice.
Current New Jersey practice
New Jersey Spine Institute now lists Leggett among its physicians in Bedminster. His profile gives Rochester fellowship dates of August 2024 to August 2025, but its present-tense fellowship wording means the exact timing of his move to New Jersey Spine Institute is not established by that page alone.
New Jersey Spine Institute says Leggett is accepting new patients, and RWJBarnabas Health has a provider page identifying Andrew R Leggett, MD as a physician in orthopaedic surgery in Bedminster.
Board status and credential wording
One detail in Leggett’s public profile requires careful wording.
His individual New Jersey Spine Institute page currently describes him as an “Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon (Board-Eligible)” and separately states “ABOS Board Eligible; anticipated certification 2025.” Because that wording remains live in 2026 and no current American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery certification record was established in the reviewed material, it would be inaccurate to automatically describe him as board-certified.
That is distinct from broader practice-level marketing language that may refer collectively to board-certified surgeons. For an individual physician profile, the individual credential record is the relevant one.
Professional approach and interests
The public-facing practice biography gives a limited amount of information about Leggett beyond his formal training and research. It says his treatment philosophy emphasizes conservative care before surgery when possible and identifies minimally invasive techniques as part of his surgical approach.
Outside medicine, the same profile lists golf, fly fishing, international travel and reading fiction and nonfiction among his interests. It also says he volunteers with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. These are first-party biographical details rather than independently reported aspects of his career, but they offer some context beyond his clinical credentials.
Which Andrew Leggett is this?
The supplied sources for the name Andrew Leggett include records from different fields, which can make a bare-name search misleading.
The physician profiled here is Andrew R. Leggett, MD, the New Jersey orthopedic spine surgeon associated with New Jersey Spine Institute, Rutgers–New Jersey Medical School and the University of Rochester.
The supplied records include an Andrew Leggett described as a Los Angeles editor and photographer and an Andrew Leggett listed on Barton College’s 2022 football roster. Neither record identifies its subject as the New Jersey surgeon.
Current status
As of September 8, 2026, New Jersey Spine Institute lists Leggett as an orthopedic spine surgeon in Bedminster and says he is accepting new patients. His practice describes his clinical focus around cervical and lumbar fusion, minimally invasive spine surgery and treatment of several adult spine conditions.
His publication record includes work in Diagnostics and the International Journal of Spine Surgery, while RWJBarnabas Health identifies him as a physician in orthopaedic surgery in Bedminster.
One credential question remains deliberately unresolved in this profile: his current ABOS certification status. His individual practice page still calls him board-eligible, so that is the appropriate description unless a more current authoritative certification record establishes otherwise.
Conclusion
Andrew Leggett’s public career is best understood as that of an orthopedic spine specialist whose documented training includes Rutgers residency and a University of Rochester spine fellowship. His listed publications from 2020, 2022 and 2023 sit alongside that training record.
By 2026, the clearest picture is of a Bedminster-based orthopedic surgeon whose practice lists cervical and lumbar spine surgery and minimally invasive techniques. Keeping that profile precise—including the distinction between his research topics, current procedure scope and board-status wording—helps avoid confusion with other Andrew Leggett search results.
