75 Results for Neurosurgery near Kansas City, MO

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. 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.

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.