Surgeons

Surgeons with thoracic spine experience.

CA, AZ, WA

Banner Health (AZ)(surgeon: Ali Baaj)

Barrow Neurological Institute(AZ)(surgeon:Juan S. Uribe)

California Neurosurgical Institute(LA) (surgeon:Benjamin Serxner)

California Spine Institute Medical Center (LA) (surgeon:John C. Chiu; approach: MIS, PES)

Cedars-Sinai, UC Davis Spine Center (surgeon:J. Patrick Johnson; difficult situations)

OC Neurosurgical Associates(LA) (surgeon: Alex Taghva)

Orthopaedic Specialty Institute (LA)

Orthopaedic Spine Center (SF Bay area) (surgeon:Ivan Cheng; approach: MIS, PES)

Scripps (SD) (surgeon:Gregory Mundis)

Senta Clinic(SD) (surgeon: Scott P. Learyl; approach: VATS)

Spine Group Beverly Hills(surgeon:John J. Regan; approach: VATS)

Spine & Neurosurgery Associates(Sacramento)(surgeon:Kavian Shahi)

UCSF (surgeon:Vedat Deviren; source: article)(surgeon:Praveen Mummaneni)

University of Washington (surgeon: Dr. Fangyi Zhang)

MA, RI

Brigham and Women's (surgeon:John H. Chi)

Department of Neurosurgery, Rhode Island Hospital, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Tufts Hospital (surgeon:James Kryzanski; approach:Transpedicular Thoracic Discectomy)

Mid Atlantic

ASEPI (Frederick, MD) (surgeon: Said Osman)

Johns Hopkins(Baltimore)(surgeon:Frederic T. Schwartz; approach:transpedicular; surgeon:Ali Bydon)

Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore)(surgeon:Charles Edwards)

Virginia Spine Institute (DC) (surgeon:Christopher Good), (surgeon:Thomas Schuler)

UMMS (Baltimore)(surgeon:Charles Sansur)

UVA (Charlottesville, VA) (surgeon:Justin S Smith, approach: MIS)

Carilion Clinic (Roanoke, VA) (surgeon: Mark R. Witcher)

DC (surgeon: Faheem Sandhu)

University of Maryland (Baltimore) (surgeon: Kenneth Crandall)

Midwest

Goodman Campbell Brain & Spine(Indianapolis, IN) (surgeon:Shannon P. McCanna)

NeuroSpine and Pain Center (Fort Wayne, IN)(surgeon: Isa Canavati)

NeuroSpine Center of Wisconsin (surgeon: Akram Mahmoud)

Rush (Chicago) (surgeon: John E. O'Toole; source: article; approach: MIS )

Tristate Brain and Spine Institute (MN) (surgeon:Hamid R. Abbasi; approach: MIS DTIF)

University of Kansas Medical Center

Mayfield (Cincinnati, OH) (surgeon:Robert Bohinski; difficult situations; surgeon:Zachary Tempel)

St Louis (surgeon: Kurt M. Eichholz, approach: MIS)

Washington University (St. Louis) (surgeon: Ammar Hawasli)

Marshall Poor (Bloomington, IN)

University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI) (surgeon: Mark Oppenlander)

NY & NJ

Atlantic NeuroSurgical Specialists(NJ) (surgeon:Charles Blair Stillerman)

Atlantic Spine Center (NJ) (surgeon:Kaixuan Liu; approach: PES) (free MRI review)

Columbia (surgeon: Alfred T. Ogden, source: article, approach: MIS)(surgeon:Paul C. McCormick)

HSS

LINPS (surgeon: Kevin J. Mullins)

Mohawk Valley Orthopedics(Upstate New York)(Jian Shen; approach: endoscopic/MIS)

Mount Sinai (surgeon:Baron Lonner)

New York University (surgeon:Noel Perinpanayagam; approach: transfacet thoracic microdiscectomy)

North Jersey Brain and Spine Center(surgeon:George J. Kaptain)

Sloan Kettering (surgeon:Mark H. Bilsky; approach: MIS)

Westchester Medical Center (surgeon: Meic H. Schmidt)(surgeon:John Galeno)

Weill Cornell Medical College (Jeffrey P. Greenfield(pediatric))

Hudson Neurosurgery (surgeon: Haroon F. Choudhri)

PA

Allegheny General Hospital (surgeon:Hae Dong Jho; approach: Transpedicular Thoracic Discectomy, PES)

Penn State Spine Center(Harrisburg) (surgeon:Mark A. Knaub)

UPMC Presbyterian Spine Service(surgeon:Adam S. Kanter, MD; approach:MIS)

South

Arkansas Neuroscience Institute(surgeon:Stephen Shafizadeh; source: article)

Bonati Spine Institute (Florida) (free MRI review)

CarolinaEast Medical Center(NC)(surgeon:Stephen Dalrymple)

Central Texas Brain and Spine (Austin)(surgeon: Anant Patel)

Houston Methodist (surgeon:Rob Parrish)

Houston MicroNeurosurgery (surgeon:Peyman Pakzaban)

Laser Spine Institute (Florida) (free MRI review)

Miami(surgeon:Jonathan Gottlieb)

MUSC (South Carolina) (surgeon: Stephen P. Kalhorn)

NeuroMedical Center(Louisiana) (surgeon:Kelly Scrantz)

Texas Back Institute (surgeon:Ted Belanger)

Dallas (surgeon: Scott Kutz; technic: TLIF)

Deuk Spine Institute (Florida)(approach:MIS)

Other

Daniel S . Yanni (CA)

University of Utah Medical Center

North American Spine (free MRI review)

Australia

Mineuro (surgeon:Ales Aliashkevich)

Belgium

Erwin Cornips (Genk)

Brazil

Campinas (surgeon:Roth Vargas)

Institute of Spine Pathology

Federal University of Sao Paulo

Canada

Halifax (surgeon:Sean Christie)

Germany

St. Marien-Hospitals Hamm(surgeon:Ulrich Quint)

Hochtaunuskliniken, Bad Homburg (surgeon:Daniel Rosenthal)

Greece

General Nikaia Piraeus Hospital

Neurosurgical Clinic Gennimatas

India

Hubli, Karnataka (surgeon:Suresh Dugani)

Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital (Mumbai, India) (surgeon:Kshitij Chaudhary)

Mumbai (surgeon:Sandeep Sonone; approach:anterior)

Keshlata Hospital Bareilly (surgeon:Varun Agarwal)

Golden Park Hospital(Vasai)(surgeon:Malcolm Pestonji; approach:endoscopic)

Italy

Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi(surgeon:Claudio Lamartina)

Naples (surgeon:Giuseppe Ambrosio)

Japan

Kanazawa University(surgeon:Katsuhito Yoshioka)

Lebanon

Ibrahim Saikali

Pakistan

Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi

Philippines

Henry Dimaano

Russia

CITO (Moscow)

Ortopedic Center (Cheboksary)

RNIITO(surgeon:Mihailov)

South Korea

Wooridul Hospital

Hyeun Sung Kim

Taiwan

Department of Neurosurgery, Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

National Yang Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Thailand

BNH Hospital, Bangkok(surgeon:Wicharn Yingsakmongkol; approach:Costotransversectomy)

Turkey

Tamer Tekin(Istanbul)(approach: endoscopic)

UK

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS trust (surgeon: Rafid Al-Mahfoudh)

National Hospital For Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital

Nottingham University Hospitals (surgeon:S. M. H. Mehdian)

Sheffield Royal Hallamshire Hospital

Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery (Liverpool) (Paul S. Mitchell, Martin Wilby, Daniel Crooks, Chris Barrett, Robin Pillay, Tim Pigott)

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (surgeon: Hussien El-Maghraby)

Paul Marks (Leeds)

St George's(surgeon:Francis Johnston)

Ukraine

Institute of Neurosurgery(Kiev)

Negative feedback

Rod Oskouian (WA) - schedule conflict

Eric Jamrich (CO) - one failed surgery known

Daniel Riew (NY) - one failed surgery known

Jan Levhosky(UK) - one failed surgery known

Richard G. Fessler (IL) - one failed surgery known

David M. Frim(Chicago) - overdoing

Brett Schlifka(FL) - one failed surgery known