78 Results for Neurosurgery near Kansas City, MO

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. Rosenberg's Biography — Dr. William S. Rosenberg attended Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, graduating in 1987. He completed his neurosurgical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, also located in Boston, in 1993. He is a fellow of the American Association of Neurological Surgery and a diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgery. Dr. Rosenberg began his career with the Mayfield Clinic in Cincinnati, Ohio (1994-1998), where he served as Director of Neurotrauma and Neurocritical Care at the University of Cincinnati and specialized in complex spinal surgery. He was then recruited to co-direct the Neurospinal Disorders Program in the Department of Neurosurgery, at the University of California, San Francisco, from 1998-2002, where he co-founded the Spinal Biomechanics Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Rosenberg left academic neurosurgery in 2002, joining Midwest Neurosurgery Associates, out of a desire for greater focus on patient care and the ability to spend more time with family. In Kansas City, Dr. Rosenberg continued to pursue interests in complex spinal surgery. In addition, he expanded his area of expertise to include the treatment of chronic and cancer-related pain. He brought CyberKnife® radiosurgery to the Kansas City area and served as Medical Director for the Menorah Medical Center CyberKnife Center for its first 6 years. Dr. Rosenberg is actively involved in treating patients with such modalities and neuromodulation, intrathecal pharmacotherapy, peripheral nerve, spinal cord, and deep brain stimulation. He is also very active in training other healthcare providers, curriculum development and lecturing, as well as designing and supervising clinical trials. Dr. Rosenberg is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, North American Spine Society, American Association of Pain Medicine, International Neuromodulation Society, North American Neuromodulation Society, AANS/CNS Joint Section on Pain, American Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Missouri State Medical Society, Metropolitan Medical Society, and the Kansas City Neurology/Neurosurgery Society. He provides editorial support for Neuromodulation, the official journal of the North American Neuromodulation Society and serves on the Scientific Program Committee for the Annual Cancer Pain Forum in Scotsdale, Arizona. Dr. Rosenberg has a number of subspecialty interests, including surgical treatment of pain (including chronic, neuropathic and cancer-related symptoms), complex spinal surgery (degenerative disease, tumors, instrumentation, and reconstruction), minimally-invasive spinal surgery, radiosurgical treatment (CyberKnife®) of brain and spinal diseases, and deep brain stimulation for pain and psychiatric disorders (Obsessive Compulsive Disease).

Dr. Blatt's Biography — Geoffrey L. Blatt, MD has been with Midwest Neurosurgery Associates since 1992. He graduated from the University of Kansas School of Medicine and completed Neurosurgical Residency and Fellowship at the State University of New York at Buffalo and Brown University in Rhode Island respectively. He is board-certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgeons and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. Dr. Blatt has been honored as a Top Neurological Surgeon by multiple organizations including US News and World Report, Ingrams Magazine, KC Magazine, Castle Connelly and The Consumers Research Council. He has served as a departmental head and on the Board of Directors of hospitals. He is a past president of the Missouri State Neurosurgical Society and the Kansas City Neurology and Neurosurgical Society. He served on the National Council of State Neurosurgical Societies. While he practices general neurosurgery, he does have specialty training in complex and minimally invasive spinal surgery, vascular neurosurgery, endoscopic neurosurgery, and stereotactic radiosurgery (Gamma Knife, CyberKnife, and Novalis). Dr. Blatt holds patents on devices for replacement of spinal discs and has been involved in the development of some widely used spinal instrumentation. As part of a treatment team headed by Dr. Blatt, there are years of experience and expertise at each step along the way. The team moto of surgery as a last resort has served patients well. The team is conscientious and meticulous, returning phone calls, answering questions, spending face-to-face time with patients, and caring about patient outcomes.