Medical Center Neuroscience Services Franklin

Medical Center Neuroscience Services provides a specialty clinic in Franklin as a convenient location for patients to meet with a Neurosciences provider for pre-surgery and follow-up care. Using leading edge technology, such as advanced image guidance navigation for brain and spine surgery, expert treatment and surgeries are performed at The Medical Center at Bowling Green. Telemedicine visits are available by appointment.

George Alsina, M.D.

Neurosurgery

Kerri House-Hill, APRN

Family Nurse Practitioner

Our Services

Spinal surgery including treatment of degenerative disease, tumor, infections and deformity

Vertebral augmentation: vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty and Kiva® VCF Treatment System

Cranial:

• Neuro-oncology
• Traumatic brain injury
• Trigeminal neuralgia
• Vascular – cavernoma
• Chiari malformation
• Normal pressure hydrocephalus

Neuro-oncology Services

Neuro-oncology is a focused specialty concerning the diagnosis and treatment of brain and spine cancer and other tumors of the central and peripheral nervous system.

Advanced image guidance navigation technology

Intraoperative ultrasound

Advanced neurophysiologic monitoring

Brain Surgery for all types of brain tumors, including:

• Complex brain surgery with sleep awake sleep craniotomy, speech and cortical mapping/stimulation, intra-operative EEG, cranial nerve monitoring
• Pituitary tumors
• Brachytherapy – Gliadel wafers
• Endoscopic surgery

Spine Surgery for metastatic and primary spine tumors (benign and malignant) including intramedullary tumors

Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS)

Stereotactic Radiotherapy (SRT)

Genotype for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM)