Jim Robinson, MD/Brain Expert

Jim Robinson, MD

Experience: Brain Expert, PC, Founder Spectrum Spine, a spinal device incubator, President Atlanta Brain and Spine Care, Founder Piedmont Gamma Knife Center, Medical Director and Chief of Neurosurgery and Chairman of Neurosciences Department Clinical Trials: Principle Investigator, A Post-Approval Investigation of the Prestige Cervical Disc Device at a Single Level for Symptomatic Cervical Disc Disease, Sponsored by Medtronic. November 2007- present Principle Investigator, PRESTIGE® LP Artificial Cervical Disc Pivotal Study IDE # G040086, A Prospective, Multicenter, Controlled Clinical Trial of an Artificial Cervical Disc – LP at a Single Level for Symptomatic Cervical Disc Disease, sponsored by Medtronic Sofamor Danek. January 2005-present. Principle Investigator, Artificial Cervical Disc Versus Cervical Fusion with Allograft/Atlantis™ Anterior Cervical Plate System Pivotal Study IDE # G010188, A Prospective, Randomized Controlled Study of an Artificial Cervical Disc Versus Anterior Cervical Fusion at a Single Level for Symptomatic Cervical Disc Disease, sponsored by Medtronic Sofamor Danek. Novenber 2003- October 2007. Community Service: Honduras Outreach, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, Member, Board of Directors, Executive Board Medical Radiation Centers, LLC, a social entrepreneurship project to Latin America Hospital Bloom(National Public Children’s Hospital), San Salvador, El Salvador, consulting Neurosurgeon, Brain Tumors and Pediatric Spinal Deformity Hospital Cedimat, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Gamma Knife Center Cub Scouts, Den Leader, Pack 554 Mentor in Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology

Education: Eastern CollegeEastern College, Saint David’s, PA, B.S. (Pre-medical), Magna Cum Laude , Medical College of Pennsylvania, PA, M.D., Magna Cum Laude, Bowman Gray School of Medicine , Wake Forest University, surgical internship, neurosurgical residency and research fellowship in Epilepsy Surgery , Gozueta Business School at Emory University Atlanta, GA, MBA, Ranked 1st in Class

Certifications: AANS/CNS Section on Disorders of Spine and Peripheral Nerves , AANS Section on Tumors , Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society , American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) , Georgia Neurosurgical Society (GNS) , Pituitary Network Association , Society for Neuro-Oncology

Services: Cranial Microsurgery , Endoscopic Crainal Surgery , Gamma Knife Radiosurgery , Brain and Skull-based Tumors , Trigeminal Neuralgia , Pituitary Tumors , Chiari Malformaitons , Vascular Malformations , Spinal tumors