Bradley Wallace, MD, PhD, Joins Lyerly Neurosurgery
Neurosurgeon Specializes in Deep Brain Stimulation, Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

Jacksonville, Florida, July 3, 2007 -- On July 1, 2007, neurosurgeon Bradley Wallace, MD, PhD, joined Lyerly Neurosurgery, specializing in deep brain stimulation therapy for movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease and minimally invasive spine surgery. Wallace becomes the region's first neurosurgeon with specialized training in deep brain stimulation.

Wallace earned his doctorate degree in neuroscience from Universite Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France, and his medical degree from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock. He completed his neurological surgery residency at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and his fellowship in functional and stereotactic neurosurgery at Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, in Grenoble, France. Most recently, he served as a faculty member in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Lyerly Neurosurgery is proud to have Wallace join Javier Garcia-Bengochea, MD; Paulo Monteiro, MD; Andrew Cannestra, MD, PhD; and Nick Chandler, MD, in offering North Florida's premier neurosurgical services.

"As the region's leaders, neurosurgeons at Lyerly performed more than 1,000 operations in 2006, with more than 1,500 cases projected to be performed in 2007," says Dr. Garcia-Bengochea.

Lyerly and Baptist are recognized nationwide as a foremost neurosurgery center, leading in areas such as minimally invasive brain and spine surgery; intra-operative brain mapping for precision brain surgery; spinal reconstruction and spinal motion preservation; Gamma Knife radiosurgery; skull base surgery; neuro-oncology and now deep brain stimulation.