The Georgia Neurosurgical Institute are a group of surgical specialists in state-of-the-art procedures, technologies and treatments of neurological, spinal and cervical disorders, injuries and diseases including back pain and neck pain. The institute is located in The Medical Center in the Pine Street Building.

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Clinical Trials

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News & Updates

  • Dr. Ulm, Dr. Albanese, Dr. Walid, and Medical Student Josh Yelverton will be presenting at the upcoming Georgia Neurosurgical Society Meeting 2008 Spring Meeting May 23-25, 2008 The Cloister Sea Island, Georgia.

  • Dr. Hyer will be presenting at the Annual 29th Southern Gerontological Meeting in Atlanta, GA Friday April 18th on "Geriatric Education of Health Professionals in Georgia." Beginning in June, Georgia Neurosurgical Institute will be partnering with CogMed and offering cognitive rehabilitation training.  Cogmed Working Memory Training is a proven software-based program designed for sustainably improved attention.

    Our Working Memory Guide will show you working memory in action at different ages and when training is needed. Cogmed Working Memory Training is designed for children, teens and adults, starting at age seven.
    The Working Memory Training program is: - Specifically designed for sustainably improved attention
    - Evidence-based
    - Clinically proven
    - Five weeks long
    - Coach-supported
    - Conducted at home with phone-based assistance
    - Proven to be 80% effective  For more information on how to participate in this exciting new program contact Georgia Neurosurgical Institute at 478-743-7092.

  • Georgia Neurosurgical has had four abstracts accepted to the upcoming Georgia Neurosurgical Society meeting held May 23-25th at Sea Island, GA.
  • Are you a candidate for one of our clinical trials?  Check out the clinical trials and find out.
  • GNI welcomes the establishment of the first middle Georgia cadaver and endovascular research labs.
  • Dr. Richter and Mercer University student Andrew Brooks will be presenting an oral presentation on "The Cognitive and Affective Effects of Neuromodulation on Quality of LIfe at the International Neuromodulation Society meeting in Acapulco, Mexico December 7-12.
  • Dr. Hyer in collaboration with the University of Georgia were recently awarded a $500,000 Federal Grant With the University of Georgia to research utilize the distance education and telemedicine to disseminate training in Georgia.  We will promulgate all modules (several are related to pain, epilepsy and movement disorders) from Year 1 - Year 3.  Teleconferencing will be part of all presentation.
  • GNI in collaboration with Mercer Bioengineering department recently completed the project “SELECTIVE “SELECTIVE BRAIN COOLING MECHANISM FOR CEREBRAL HYPOTHERMIA USING VIRTUAL PROTOTYPING AND IN-VITRO EXPERIMENTS” funded by the Community Health Foundation “Medcen” Principal Investigator: S.Hyun, PhD. Co-Investigator: J.S.Robinson, Jr., MD, M.S.Valid, MD, PhD, E.O’Brien, PhD Principal Investigator: S.Hyun, PhD.
  • Dr. Zhao will be attending the annual American Epilepsy Society meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where Georgia Neurosurgical Institute will be presenting a poster on "The Projected Economic Impact of New Epilepsy Center," by GM Moriner, MR Toole, and ER Richter.
  • Dr. Ulm will be presenting at the Georgia Neurosurgical Society meeting in Atlanta on "Anatomical variations of the upper cervical vertebral artery: Implications for posterior fossa surgery."Angel Velasquez M.D., Antonino Russon M.D., Ermenia Albanese M.D., and Arthur J. Ulm M.D. as well at Dr. Walid who will be presenting on, "Isolated Pontine Sarcoidosis Mimicking Glioma: Case Report."
  • Dr. Robinson and Mercer Medical Student, Josh Yelverton, will be presenting at the Traumatic Brain Injury Symposium October 17th at the Eversole Auditorium from 10am-11am.
  • Georgia Neurosurgical Institute and the Medical Center of Central Georgia celebrate the Grand Opening of the Hybrid Neuro-Imaging Surgical Suite. This New Operating Room Suite will be used by Dr. Arthur Jay Ulm, Neurosurgeon with Georgia Neurosurgical Institute for Treatment of Patients suffering from Strokes, Aneurysms and other brain related diseases. Notable Attendees at the Grand Opening were: Dr. Ulm, Dr. Joe Sam Robinson, Dr. Erich Richter, Georgia Senator Cecil Station and Don Faulk.


 

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