We provide the best full range of multidisciplinary spinal disorders evaluation and management. We provide all minimally invasive spine neurosurgery approaches to maximum patient care and outcomes. Our neurosurgeons are experts in complex spine surgery, with training in full range of spine surgery and offer the latest cutting edge procedures. We provide world-class surgical expertise in the type of caring environment that patients deserve. We favor a multidisciplinary evidenced based approach to patient care supported by an innovative outcomes research program. Alongside specialists in neurology, physiatry, pain specialists, we use shared expertise and the latest research to create individualized treatment plans. Multidisciplinary medicine is an effective approach to patient care which allows for treatment of the whole patient. For example, patients referred to us will be evaluated at the Spine Clinic where they are evaluated in one location by the appropriate specialists – neurosurgeon, neurologist, physiatrist, and radiologist – to provide comprehensive spine care. We have a comprehensive minimally invasive spine program and the regions only cyberknife radiosurgery program. Our spine specialists are fellowship trained and have extensive experience. We are the only academic residency neurosurgery program in Louisville. We are the sole provider of neurosurgery services at the University Hospital, the regions only level 1 trauma center. We also provide neurosurgery and spine coverage at Jewish Hospital and the Robley Rex VA hospitals. We also have an internationally renowned integrated clinical and basic research program in spinal cord injury. We are the regions leading endoscopic spine surgery program and in 2021 initiating a robotic spine surgery program. Dr. Boakye, the Chief of Spinal Neurosurgery has been board certified in neurosurgery since 2006. He is Tenured Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Louisville. His clinical practice focuses on general neurosurgery, brain tumors, complex spinal neurosurgery, spine radiosurgery, spinal cord injury, and minimally invasive spine surgery. He is a he devotes about half of his time clinician-scientist with research interests in patient centered outcomes research, comparative effectiveness research, and spinal cord injury research. Prior to coming to the University of Louisville in 2011 he was an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Stanford University from 2003-2010. He is an editor of the textbook: Essentials of Spinal Cord Injury, Thieme Publishers, October 2012. He is an NIH funded clinician scientists who has published over 200 peer reviewed papers, bookchapters and abstracts on spine surgery complications and outcomes. He hosts the optimal neuro|spine podcast.
