Pediatric Neurosurgery Services

Providing Specialized Surgery
Care for Children

We help ensure that our equipment, staff and mission are serving the healthcare needs of children.

  • In 2011, the Children’s Neurosciences program had the highest neurosurgery and inpatient neurology volumes in the nation. 
  • Children's employs five pediatric neurosurgeons.
  • Our neurosurgeons and pediatric plastic surgeons partner on more than 100 cases each year, providing a unique multi-specialty surgical collaboration offered by few pediatric hospitals in the Southeast.
  • Children's had the lowest neurosurgical shunt revision rate in a 2008 study involving 32 hospitals in the Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS) database.*  

Video: Neurosurgeon Andrew Reisner, M.D.

Neurosurgeon Andrew Reisner, M.D.View

Meet pediatric neurosurgeon Andrew Reisner, M.D., presented by HealthWatch M.D.
 
     
 
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    Improving Care for our Patients
    We keep track of our patient volumes and outcomes so we can continue to improve. We have more pediatric neurological and neurosurgical inpatients than other childrens hospitals in the country.
 
     
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  • Five years ago, spine surgeon, David Wrubel, M.D., saved Meredith Hunter's life when he used his rib to reattach his neck to his skull. Watch Meredith's story. 
  • Grateful families help establish a Traumatic Brain Injury Fund in honor of neurosurgeon Andrew Reisner M.D., who has saved the lives of many babies, kids and teens with traumatic brain injury.
 
 

 
*Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS), 2008; the PHIS hospitals are 32 of the largest and most advanced children’s hospitals in America and constitute the most demanding standards of pediatric service in America.