Provider Profile

Medical Services

• Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience
• Neurological Surgery
• Spine Program

Years in Practice

7

Hospital Affiliation / Admitting Privileges

• Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Education

• Temple University School of Medicine, Medical School

Internship

• Temple University Hospital

Residency

• Temple University Hospital

Fellowship

• University of Virginia Medical Center

Jefferson physicians accept most health insurance plans, including those listed below. However, plan acceptance may vary by practice and may be subject to change. If you have questions about whether a specific physician accepts your insurance, please contact your insurance company.

Insurances Accepted

• Aetna
• Aetna PA Employee Benefit Trust Fund (PEBTF)
• Amerihealth 65
• AmeriHealth HMO
• AmeriHealth Personal Choice
• Berkshire Health Partners
• Blue Choice
• Blue Cross/Blue Shield
• Cigna Healthspring
• Cigna PPO, POS
• Consumer Health Network PPO
• CorVel
• Devon
• Employers Health Network PPO
• Evolutions (Guardian Resources)
• First Health Network
• Fortified Provider Network
• Galaxy
• Geisinger Health Plan
• Health America PPO
• Health Management Network PPO
• Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield
• Horizon HMO
• HumanaChoicePPO,Medicare,GoldPlusHMO
• Intergroup Preferred
• Jeff Plus
• Keystone 65 HMO
• Keystone First VIP Choice
• Keystone First/Connect
• Keystone Health Plan East
• Medicaid of PA
• Medicare
• Mercy LIFE
• MultiPlan Inc.
• One Net PPO
• Oxford of PA
• Personal Choice (GPPPN)
• Personal Choice 65
• PlanCare America
• Preferred Care PPO
• Premier Blue
• Prime Health Services, Inc.
• Provider Select Inc
• Tricare
• United Healthcare
• UPMC HMO,PPO ReadingHspEmpONLY
• UPMC Medicare HMO
• US Family Health Plan
• Workers Comp

Conditions

• Back & Neck Pain
• Herniated Disc
• Scoliosis Spinal Curvatures
• Spinal Cord Injury
• Spinal Tumors

Recent Publications

Cervical Spondylodiscitis: Presentation, Timing, and Surgical Management in 59 Patients

Interspinous implants: are the new implants better than the last generation? A review

Lateral lumbar retroperitoneal transpsoas approach in the setting of spondylodiscitis: A technical note

Teratoma of the spinal cord in an adult: Report of a rare case and review of the literature

Is An Isolated Intervertebral Disk with Significant Degeneration Magnetic Resonance Imaging A Cause of Low Back Pain That Requires No Confirmatory Diagnostic Tests?

Fluoroscopic Confirmation of Sacral Pedicle Screw Placement Utilizing Pelvic Inlet and Outlet Technique

Suture Choice in Lumbar Dural Closure Contributes to Variation in Leak Pressures: Experimental Model

Lumbar paraganglioma

Long-segment fusion for adult spinal deformity correction using low-dose recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2: A retrospective review of fusion rates

Epidemiology and pathophysiology of cervical disc herniation

Cervical spine spondylodiscitis after esophageal dilation in patients with a history of laryngectomy or pharyngectomy and pharyngeal irradiation

C1 lateral mass screw migration causing a delayed unilateral hypoglossal nerve lesion

C-5 palsy after cerebrospinal fluid diversion in posttraumatic syringomyelia: Case report

Hemorrhagic lumbar synovial cyst: Case report and literature review

Surgical management in 40 consecutive patients with cervical spinal epidural abscesses: Shifting toward circumferential treatment

Intraoperative vancomycin use in spinal surgery: Single institution experience and microbial trends

An algorithmic strategy for selecting a surgical approach in cervical deformity correction

Longitudinal incidence and concurrence rates for traumatic brain injury and spine injury - A twenty year analysis

Timing in the surgical evacuation of spinal epidural abscesses

Failure of lumbopelvic fixation after long construct fusions in patients with adult spinal deformity: Clinical and radiographic risk factors