Neurosurgery

We offer a full range of neurosurgical services to patients at Augusta University Medical Center - a 520-bed tertiary hospital that offers specialized services not available in other facilities in the region. We are:

• The region's best-equipped and busiest Acute Care Services (ACS) verified Level I Trauma Center
• Able to offer dedicated neurosurgical operating rooms with state-of-the-art equipment
• A 20-bed Neurocritical Intensive Care Unit
• The only Gamma Knife Center of the region
• Providers of pediatric neurological care through the Children's Hospital of Georgia where our neurosurgeons work with pediatric neurologists to treat children with brain and spinal disorders.

Our subspecialty areas of expertise

When it comes to your brain and spine, it's important to see specialists with the training and knowledge to perform the highly specialized procedures that our neurosurgeons are prepared to do. 

• Complex spine surgery
• General neurosurgery
• Treatment for normal pressure hydrocephalus
• Peripheral nerve surgery
• Surgical oncology
• Surgical pain management
• Skull base surgery
• Stroke treatment
• Functional/stereotactic neurosurgery for movement disorders and epilepsy.

In addition, we have flourishing research laboratories including.

• An innovative human brain lab, a cerebrovascular lab, and synapse lab

• Brain tumor surgery
• Epilepsy surgery
• Gamma knife radiosurgery
• Normal pressure hydrocephalus
• Pain management and therapy
• Pediatric neurosurgery
• Spine surgery
• Skull base surgery
• Vascular and endovascular neurosurgery

Khoi Nguyen, MD- Pediatric neurosurgery, general adult neurosurgery

Samuel Macomson, MD - Hydrocephalus, peripheral nerve surgery, general neurosurgery

Michel Paré, MD - Spine surgery

Alexander Post, MD - Spine surgery, pediatric neurosurgery

Scott Rahimi MD - Vascular and endovascular neurosurgery, general neurosurgery

Martin Rutkowski, MD - Surgical oncology, skull base surgery, brain tumor

Fernando L. Vale, MD - Functional and epilepsy neurosurgery, brain tumor

John R. Vender, MD - Surgical pain management, surgical oncology, general neurosurgery