Program Faculty
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Anthony L. Asher, MD, FACS Vice Director, Neurological Surgery Residency Program, Carolinas Medical Center President, Neuroscience Institute, Atrium Health Surgical Director, Adult Brain and Spinal Cord Tumor Programs; Levine Cancer Institute, Atrium Health Special Interests: Micro and Endoscopic Spine Surgery, Brain Tumors, Skull Base Tumors, Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Epilepsy Surgery, Trigeminal Neuralgia, Stereotactic Radiosurgery Fellowship: National Cancer Institute Residency and Internship: University of Michigan Medical School: Wayne State University School of Medicine Affiliations: Founder and Director, National Neurosurgery Quality and Outcomes Database; Director, American Board of Neurological Surgery; Past President, Congress of Neurological Surgeons; Vice-President, AANS/CNS Neuropoint Alliance; Board of Directors, American Association of Neurological Surgeons; Co-Chairman of the National Task Force on Quality Initiatives in Neurosurgery; Adjunct Professor of Neurosurgery and Biology, UNC; Adjunct Professor of Neurosurgery, Vanderbilt University; Co-Founder, Brain Tumor Fund for the Carolinas |
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Tim E. Adamson, MD Medical Director, Carolina Center for Specialty Surgery Special Interests: Vascular Neurosurgery, Endoscopic Disc Surgery, Acoustic Tumors, Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Fellowship: Neurological Surgery, Zurich University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland Residency and Internship: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Medical School: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Affiliations: Board Member, AANS Ethics Committee; Operating Room Committee Chairman, Carolinas Medical Center; Medical Director, Neurosurgical Intensive Care; Member, Cerebrovascular Section of the AANS; Neurosurgeon to the Carolina Panthers |
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Joe D. Bernard, MD Medical Director of Neurovascular Services for NISS, Carolinas Medical Center Vice-Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, Carolinas Medical Center Special Interests: Neuro-Interventional Surgery (Brain Aneurysms, AVM’s, Dural Fistula, Carotid/Vertebral/Intracranial Stenting), Minimally Invasive and Endoscopic Spine Surgery, Treatment of Stroke, Carotid and Vertebral Dissections, Fibromuscular Dysplasia and Spinal Neuro-Modulation Residency and Internship: The University of Tennessee Health Science Center Medical School: University of Louisville School of Medicine Affiliations: Neurotrauma, OR, Credentialing and Stroke Executive Committees at Carolinas Medical Center; NeuroInterventional Surgery and Societies; Cerebrovascular Section of CNS and AANS |
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Domagoj Coric, MD Chairman, Department of Neurological Surgery, Carolinas Medical Center Special Interests: Artificial Disc Replacement, Spinal Trauma, Spinal Tumors, Degenerative Diseases of the Spine, Disc Disease, Spinal Cord Injuries, Endoscopic Disc Surgery Residency and Internship: Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Medical School: Wake Forest University School of Medicine Affiliations: Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves of the AANS and CNS; President, North Carolina Spine Society; President Elect, Southern Neurosurgical Society; North American Spine Society |
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Vinay Deshmukh, MD, FACS Neurotrauma Director, Carolinas Medical Center Special Interests: Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery, Endoscopic Disc Surgery, Brain Tumors, Athletic Injuries, Diseases of the Cranio-Cervical Junction, Spinal Tumors, Spinal Cord Injuries, Cerebrovascular Disease, Artificial Disc Replacement, Minimally Invasive Spinal Fusion, Vertebroplasty, Kyphoplasty, Spinal Trauma Fellowship: Complex Spine Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Residency and Internship: University of Texas Southwestern Medical School: University of Florida School of Medicine Affiliations: Neurotrauma Committee, Infection Control Committee, Carolinas Medical Center; Vice-Chair Special Courses Committee of the CNS; Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves of the AANS and CNS; Neurosurgery Development Team, Presbyterian Hospital |
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E. Hunter Dyer, MD President, Carolinas Neurosurgery and Spine Associates Medical Director of Skull-base Surgery, Carolinas Medical Center Special Interests: Transsphenoidal Surgery, Skull Base Surgery, Vascular Neurosurgery, Endoscopic Spine Surgery Fellowship: Pituitary and Skull Base Surgery, L’Hospital Foch, Surenes, Paris, France Residency and Internship: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Medical School: University of Mississippi School of Medicine Affiliations: Past member, Executive Committee, Congress of Neurological Surgeons |
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Martin M. Henegar, MD Special Interests: Brain Tumors, Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Complex Spine Surgery, Spinal & Cranial Endoscopy Residency and Internship: Barnes Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine Medical School: University of North Carolina School of Medicine Affiliations: Society for Neuro-Oncology; Joint section on Functional & Stereotactic Neurosurgery of the AANS & CNS; AANS/CNS Section on Pediatric Neurological Surgery; American Society of Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery |
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Sarah C. Jernigan, MD, MPH Special Interests: Pediatric Neurosurgery, Hydrocephalus, Moyamoya, Spasticity, Endoscopy for Brain Tumors, Craniosynostosis Fellowship: Pediatric Neurosurgery, Boston Children’s Hospital Residency: Harvard Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Boston Children’s Hospital, University of Louisville Medical School: University of Louisville School of Medicine Affiliations: Tulane University School of Public Health |
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Paul K. Kim, MD
Special Interests: Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, Complex Spinal Disorders, Spinal Deformities, Degenerative Spine Disease, Artificial Disk Replacement, Spinal Cord Injury, Spinal Trauma, Osteoporotic Compression Fractures, Spinal Tumors Fellowship: Spine Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic Residency and Internship: Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Medical School: University of Mississippi Medical School Affiliations: North American Spine Society, AANS/CNS Joint Section on Tumors |
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Matthew J. McGirt, MD Special Interests: Complex and Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery and Spinal Fusion, General Neurosurgery Fellowship: Spinal Surgery, Johns Hopkins Residency and Internship: Johns Hopkins Hospital Medical School: Duke University School of Medicine Affiliations: Adjunct Research Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Research Fellow, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research; AANS/CNS Joint Spine Section; North American Spine Society (NASS) |
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Mark D. Smith, MD Medical Director of Neurosurgery Quality Assurance, Carolinas Medical Center Special Interests: Brain Tumors, Minimally Invasive Spine Fusion, Endoscopic Spine Surgery, Degenerative Spine Disorders Residency and Internship: University of Tennessee, Memphis, Department of Neurosurgery Medical School: Medical College of Georgia Affiliations: Neurosurgery Development Team and Chief of Neurosurgery, Presbyterian Hospital |
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Mark D. Van Poppel, MD Medical Director of Neurosurgical Trauma, Carolinas Medical Center Special Interests: Adult and pediatric epilepsy, congenital cranial and spinal malformations in children, pediatric spinal disorders including spinal dysraphism and tethered spinal cord, pediatric cerebrovascular disease, pediatric and adult tumors of the brain and spine, endoscopic procedures for adults and children Fellowship: Pediatric neurosurgery, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Residency & Internship: University of Tennessee and Semmes-Murphey Clinic Medical School: Indiana University School of Medicine Master of Science in Anatomy and Cellular Physiology: Indiana University Master of Science in Biology: Purdue University |
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Scott D. Wait, MD Program Director, Neurological Surgery Residency Program, Carolinas Medical Center Director, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Carolinas Medical Center Special Interests: Pediatric Neurosurgery, Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors, Endoscopy, Cerebrovascular Disease, Epilepsy Surgery, Neurotrauma, and Peripheral Nerve Surgery Fellowships: Pediatric Neurosurgery, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; Skull base, endoscopic, and neuro-oncology, Centre for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, Sydney, Australia Residency: Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona Internship: Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center Clinical Research Training: The National Institutes of Health Medical School: East Carolina University School of Medicine |