Surgeons

Surgeons with thoracic spine experience.

CA, AZ, WA

California Neurosurgical Institute (surgeon:Benjamin Serxner; patient:Karen Pike)

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

Cedars-Sinai (surgeon:J. Patrick Johnson)

Orthopaedic Specialty Institute (CA)

Scripps (SD) (surgeon:Gregory Mundis; patient:Jennie Bennett)

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

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

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

UC Davis Spine Center (surgeon:J. Patrick Johnson)

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

MA, RI

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

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

Mid Atlantic

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

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

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

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

Midwest

NeuroSpine Center of Wisconsin (surgeon: Akram Mahmoud; patient: Laura Berchem)

Rush (surgeons: Richard G. Fessler, MD, 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 (patient:Linda Arndt Ford)

Mayfield (Cincinnati, OH) (surgeon:Robert J. Bohinski)

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

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

NY & NJ

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

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

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

HSS (patient:Bryan Rose )

LINPS (surgeon: Kevin J. Mullins; patient: Jennifer Gerber)

Mount Sinai (surgeon:Baron Lonner)

New York University (surgeon:Noel Perinpanayagam; patient: Jennifer Lynn; 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;patient: Kira Lea)

Weill Cornell Medical College (surgeon: Ali Baaj)

PA

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

Penn State Spine Center (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)

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; patient: Beth Aldridge Wagner)

University of South Florida (Tampa)(surgeon:Juan S. Uribe)

Other

Daniel S . Yanni (CA)

University of Washington (surgeon: Dr. Fangyi Zhang; patient:Jim Brusa)

Barrow Neurological Institute

University of Utah Medical Center

North American Spine (free MRI review)

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

Brazil

Campinas (surgeon:Roth Vargas)

Institute of Spine Pathology

Federal University of Sao Paulo

Germany

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

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)

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

South Korea

Wooridul Hospital

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; patient: David Watkinson;approach:Costotransversectomy)

UK

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

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

Negative feedback

Rod Oskouian (WA) - schedule conflict

Eric Jamrich (CO) - one failed surgery known