Joshua A. Hirsch (born 1969) is an American interventional pain management physician^[1][2][3] and radiologist.^[4][2] He specialises in percutaneous vertebroplasty,^[5] percutaneous sacroplasty,^[6] and minimally invasive spine surgery.^[7] Hirsch performs balloon-assisted kyphoplasty^[8] and has been credited as performing the first combined percutaneous vertebroplasty/kyphoplasty in Boston.^[9][7] Hirsch has served as chief of minimally invasive spine surgery,^[10] director of interventional neuroradiology,^[11] chief of the Interventional Spine Service,^[12] vice chair of interventional radiology quality and safety and associate departmental quality chair^[13] at Massachusetts General Hospital.^[14]

He is an alumnus of Touro College (B.A., 1987).^[15] In 1991, at the age of 21, he was the youngest person in modern history to graduate from Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.^[16][15] In addition to practicing, Hirsch is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School^[17][18] and is a founding editor of the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery, where he serves on the editorial board.^[18][19]

Hirsch has published nearly 400 papers and many chapters in the peer-reviewed literature.^[20] In 2013, he and other members of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) published epidural guidelines for interventional techniques in 2013, which has continuously been updated.^[21][22] Hirsch participated once again with ASIPP to publish Guidelines for Responsible Opioid Prescribing in Chronic Non-Cancer Pain.^[23]