Madison Michael, M.D., neurosurgeon at Semmes-Murphey Neurologic and Spine Institute and assistant professor in the department of neurosurgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has been named medical director for the Methodist University Hospital Neuroscience Institute.

Dr. Michael specializes in skull base surgery including pituitary surgery, acoustic neuromas and glomus jugulare tumors, trigenminal neuroalgia, and hemifacial spasm, complex spine surgery of the occipitocervical junction, cervical spine, and thoracic spine and endoscopic treatment of brain tumors.

Dr. Michael received his bachelor of science degree from the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee and completed his medical degree at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. His postdoctoral training included a surgical internship in general surgery and residency in neurosurgery with a special interest in skull base tumors and complex spinal surgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. Dr. Michael continued his education with a clinical fellowship in the department of neuroscience at North Bristol NHS Trust and Frenchay Hospital in England.

The Neuroscience Institute is on the forefront of ground-breaking treatment and surgical options, and provides family-centered, interdisciplinary care to patients from across the United States.