77 Results for Neurosurgery near Kansas City, KS

Dr. Neil's Biography — Dr Jayson Neil, MD, is a fellowship-trained neurosurgeon with the HCA Midwest Health Neuroscience Institute at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, MO. With fellowships in both skull base/neurovascular surgery and spine surgery, Dr. Neil offers a broad background in neurosurgery, with extensive clinical research experience and numerous publications, papers and presentations to his credit. Among his research projects, Dr. Neil studied the use of MRI in pediatric head traumas and in brain tumors, and the use of stem cells in spinal cord injury. Over the course of his training, Dr. Neil received multiple honors and awards for academics, research and surgical expertise. He is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, American Medical Association, and the American College of Physicians.

Dr. Taylon's Biography — Dr. Samuel Taylon is a board-certified neurosurgeon with Midwest Neuroscience Institute at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo., and at Menorah Medical Center in Overland Park, Kan. Dr. Taylon offers expertise in spine surgery procedures, with fellowship training from Johns Hopkins University Department of Neurosurgery in complex and reconstructive spine. He has also completed an enfolded spine fellowship with Medical University of South Carolina Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Neurosurgery. Dr. Taylon has been an active researcher and has presented on and authored multiple works on the topic of minimally invasive spine procedures, specifically for the treatment of thoraco-lumbar traumatic spine fractures.

Dr. Chilton's Biography — Jonathan Chilton, MD is an accomplished neurosurgeon who has been practicing in Kansas City for 20 years. Dr. Chilton received his Masters in Public Health degree from Columbia University in New York City. He subsequently attended medical school at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in Rochester, New York. He completed his neurosurgery residency at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1988 including training in pediatric neurosurgery at Childrens Hospital National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., training in neuropathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Neuropathology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and training at the Atkinson Morleys Hospital in London, England. He completed board certification in neurosurgery in 1991 (Diplomate of the American Board of Neurological Surgeons). Dr. Chilton is the Director of the Midwest Gamma Knife Center, which was the first dedicated cranial radiosurgery facility in the five state Midwest region (over 1600 patients treated to date). He has been chairman of the Department of Surgery at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, MO., a major tertiary care referral hospital. Dr. Chilton is an active member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurological Surgery and the American Medical Association. He has subspecialty interests and expertise in many areas including: brain tumor surgery (benign and malignant tumors), spine tumor surgery (benign and malignant tumors), Gamma Knife radiosurgery, degenerative disc disease (cervical and lumbar), complex spine surgery (degenerative spine disease, degenerative scoliosis, spinal instrumentation and reconstruction), peripheral nerve surgery (carpal tunnel syndrome, ulnar neuropathy), trigeminal neuralgia, cranio-cerebral trauma, spine trauma. Dr. Chilton is currently the senior partner at Midwest Neurosurgery Associates, a well respected, four-member private practice neurosurgery group serving greater metropolitan Kansas City and rural communities in Missouri and Kansas within a 150 mile radius.