Surgeons
Surgeons with thoracic spine experience.
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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; patient:Cheryl Wright; approach:Transpedicular Thoracic Discectomy)
Mid Atlantic
ASEPI (Frederick, MD) (surgeon: Said Osman)
Johns Hopkins (surgeon:Frederic T. Schwartz; approach:transpedicular; surgeon:Ali Bydon)
Mercy Medical Center(surgeon:Charles Edwards)
Virginia Spine Institute (surgeon:Christopher Good), (surgeon:Thomas Schuler)
UMMS (surgeon:Charles Sansur)
UVA (surgeon:Justin S Smith, approach: MIS)
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)
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))
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)
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)
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
Pakistan
Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi
Philippines
Russia
CITO (Moscow)
Ortopedic Center (Cheboksary)
RNIITO(surgeon:Mihailov)
South Korea
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
