Department of Neurosurgery

Saint Joseph Office Park (A-540) Telephone:(859) 258-6760 Toll Free:(877) 232-3533 1401 Harrodsburg Road Lexington, KY 40504 Referring Physician Neurosurgery Information and Resources

SERVICES AND PROCEDURES Spine surgery including spinal instrumentation and fusion Cranial surgery including brain tumors Spinal stimulator and pain pump placements Peripheral nerve surgery Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty Minimally invasive brain and spine surgeries Pituitary surgery including Transphenoidal surgery

The Lexington Clinic Neurosurgery Department began in 1956. The first Neurosurgeon to practice in the department was

Dr. Peter Jones. Today, our team of neurosurgeons is made up of four physicians and three physician assistants and provides top neurosurgical care in Eastern and Central Kentucky.

Each of our physicians have their own area of expertise and provide consultations, diagnoses, and treatments for brain, spinal cord and nerve diseases and disorders in adults.

Lexington Clinic Neurosurgeons work in partnership with each other and more than 150 physicians involved with Lexington Clinic. Their professional interest and expertise are spinal surgery, intracranial surgery including brain turmors, pituitary tumors, epilepsy, facial pain and stroke.

Robert D. Owen, MD
Specialty: Cranial surgery, including, primary and metastatic cranial tumors; hydrocephalus; pituitary/sellar tumors; stroke; chiari malformations; spinal surgery using open, minimally invasive and complex instrumentation techniques for disk herniations, stenosis, deformity, primary and metatstatic spinal tumors, syringomyelia, and spinal dysraphism; peripheral nerve surgery including ulnar and median nerve decompressions; surgical intervention for intractable pain and spasticity, including dorsal column stimulator placement and intrathecal pump placement.

Leon J. Ravvin, MD, CM, FRCS (C)
Specialty: Spinal surgery including instrumentation and spinal fusion; vertebral augmentation, minimally invasive surgery, intracranial surgery including brain tumors and pituitary tumors

Henry P. Tutt, MD, MSc
Specialty: Cervical and lumbar spinal surgery, and neurosurgical evaluations

Matthew P. Tutt, MD
Specialty: Consultation services in cranial, spinal and peripheral nerve surgery; including primary and metastatic brain tumors, vascular lesions, pituitary tumors, chiari malformations, intractable epilepsy, spinal tumors, deformative and degenerative spinal disease, and compressive neuropathies, minimally invasive spinal procedures, revision spinal surgery, neurosurgical oncology, and stereotactic radiosurgery

Buford Hall, PA-C
Specialty: Assists in cranial surgery including brain tumors, endoscopic brain surgery, adult and pediatric neurosurgery, peripheral nerve surgery, skull base tumors, spinal surgery, vascular neurosurgery and vertebral body augmentation surgery

Alyssa True, PA-C
Specialty: Assists in cranial surgery including brain tumors, endoscopic brain surgery, adult and pediatric neurosurgery, peripheral nerve surgery, skull base tumors, spinal surgery, vascular neurosurgery and vertebral body augmentation surgery