Doctors

Clinical interests

Expertise in robotic and stereotactic surgery; nearly 10,000 DBS/SCS, Gamma Knife, and brain-biopsy procedures completed. Deep-brain stimulation (DBS) treats Parkinson disease, Meige syndrome, essential tremor, dystonia, minimally conscious state, and other conditions. Gamma Knife treats various intracranial tumors and vascular diseases. Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) treats post-lumbar-surgery pain, ischemic pain (such as diabetic foot and Raynaud disease), regional pain syndrome, postherpetic pain, pathological pain related to spinal-cord and nerve injury, and promotes arousal in patients in a vegetative state.