About the USA Health Spine Institute

The choice of who to choose for your spine surgeon is a personal and important decision to be made by each patient and their family. You deserve to be comfortable and confident that you have made the best choice in your surgeon, in their team, and in the values of their practice and institution. 

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Culture

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Our culture focuses on you. We will listen to you. We have a specific patient navigator to help you through your spine diagnosis and your treatment. We want you to get the best possible patient experience with concierge level service.  We want to change the way spine care is delivered.

We will do the right thing at the right time because it’s the right thing to do. We will perform the least- invasive treatment option possible. The surgeon and every member of the staff will work to be our absolute best every single day. We are not focused on just performing surgery. Surgery is one tool we have to get our patients better. Again, we want to transform the way spine care is performed in the region. Our philosophy is that the surgeon is the “Captain of the Ship” and is responsible for all aspects of your care and outcome.

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Training

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For complex surgery, your surgeon should be specifically fellowship trained in spinal surgery, up to date with the latest surgical techniques, and actively engaged in surgical innovation. A fellowship-trained neurosurgeon spends eight years training in spine surgery after graduating from medical school: Seven years are spent in involved in the care of spinal patients on a daily basis as a neurosurgery resident and one year of advanced fellowship training is spent mastering the most complex spinal cases. It is important to select someone who is an expert in your specific spinal problem.

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Research

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At a minimum, your surgeon should be reading different scientific journals about spine surgery. At the USA Health Spine Institute we are the academic neurosurgical practice for the Gulf Coast. We are driving the field of spine surgery, we are performing research, and we are writing some of the research other surgeons read. We have to be at the tip of the sphere because we are responsible for training other doctors. The neurosurgical department at the University of South Alabama has had their research worked cited over 1,400 times in papers by other surgeons and scientists. This dedication to research ensures we are always on the cutting edge of the newest and safest techniques.

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