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AdventHealth Neuroscience Institute

At the AdventHealth Neuroscience Institute, we know that a neurovascular disorder like trigeminal neuralgia isn’t just a physical problem. This nerve pain affects your body, mind and spirit. That’s why we pioneer the most innovative treatments available so that you can get back to a joyful life, free of pain. Plus, AdventHealth Orlando is ranked #35 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for neurology and neurosurgery. It’s world class expertise combined with trusted whole-person care.

AdventHealth Physicians

Christopher Baker, MD

Dr. Christopher Baker is a board certified and Gamma Knife-certified neurosurgeon. As a co-founder of Orlando Neurosurgery and the Medical Director of the Florida Hospital Orlando Spine Center, Dr. Baker helps patients with brain tumors, neurovascular disease, and spinal and movement disorders. Prior to co-founding Orlando Neurosurgery in 2002, a multispecialty surgical practice, Dr. Baker served as a Captain in the United States Army Reserve. This acclaimed veteran also graduated with honors from Johns Hopkins University and received his medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, where he graduated first in his class. He completed his neurosurgical residency at Columbia’s Neurological Institute of New York. An award-winning scholar and researcher, he is a recipient of the AANS/CNS Galbraith Award for excellence in cerebrovascular research, the NOVA Award for clinical excellence in neurosurgery and is a current member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.

Ravi Gandhi, MD

Ravi H. Gandhi, MD, is an accomplished neurosurgeon, who is fellowship-trained in cerebrovascular skull-based neurosurgery and endovascular neurosurgery. He specializes in the detection and treatment of complex brain and spinal tumors, blood vessel disease of the head and neck and emergency treatment of neurological trauma and stroke. Dr. Gandhi has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and regularly speaks at medical forums and community outreach events.

Melvin Field, MD

Dr. Field is board certified in Neurosurgery by the American Board of Neurological Surgery and serves as the Medical Director for the AdventHealth Minimally Invasive Brain Surgery program. He is also the co-director of AdventHealth’s Gamma Knife and Neuro-Oncology programs and an associate professor of Neurosurgery at UCF’s College of Medicine. He is the Past President of the Caribbean Association of Neurological Surgeons.

David Rosen, MD

Dr. Rosen is board certified in neurosurgery with additional fellowship training in neurosurgical oncology. An expert in tumors of the nervous system and minimally invasive spine surgery, he performs complex and minimally invasive surgery for the treatment of gliomas, glioblastomas, metastatic tumors, meningiomas, schwannomas, acoustic neuromas, pituitary tumors and skull base tumors. He also specializes in the treatment of cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine conditions. Using a combination of surgical and non-surgical methods of treating disc disease, stenosis, myelopathy, radiculopathy, instability, sciatica and back pain.

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