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Philip Carter, MD

Dr. Carter specializes in Neurological Surgery.  He received his medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis followed by an internship at Harborview Hospital in Seattle.  He completed residencies at St. Luke's Hospital in New York and the Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix.  He completed fellowships at the University of Zurich in microsurgery and the University of West Ontario, Canada in aneurysm surgery.  Dr. Carter is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery.  He is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the American College of Surgeons. 

Dr. Carter is an active clinical researcher, author and lecturer.  He has authored many research papers, book chapters and lectures on a variety of neurosurgical topics including cerebral blood flow, cerebral vascular malformations and brain tumors.  Dr. Carter's special interests include treatment of trigeminal neuralgia, brain tumors and vascular malformations of the brain.  

   
 

Marco Marsella, MD

Dr. Marsella is a neurosurgeon that received his medical degree from University of Firenze (Florence, Italy) and completed is internship in Stockholm, Sweden.  He completed his neurosurgery residency at University of Pauda in Pauda, Italy.  Dr. Marcella completed fellowships in Cerebrovascular, Spine at University Hospital of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio).

Most recently Dr. Marcella was Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at University of Nebraska Medical Center and VA Medical Center.   Dr. Marcella currently is Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery in the Division of Neurosurgery at University of Arizona, University Medical Center.  Dr. Marcella interests include the surgical treatment of brain tumors.

 
   
Thomas Norton, MD

Dr. Norton specializes in Neurological Surgery. He received his medical degree from Loyola University.  Stritch School of Medicine followed by an internship at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, and residency at University of Illinois.

He is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery.  He is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the American Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery.  He has practiced in the Tucson community since 1973.

Dr. Norton is a clinical lecturer at the Arizona Health Sciences Center. Dr. Norton's special interests include pain disorders, surgery for pituitary tumors, and surgery for movement disorders.

   
 Abhay Sanan, MD

Dr. Sanan specializes in Neurological Surgery.  He received his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine, followed by an internship and residency at the University of Minnesota and Mayo Clinic.  He completed a fellowship at the University of Cincinnati in complex intracranial surgery.  He is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery.  He is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Trigeminal Neuralgia Association

Dr. Sanan is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Arizona and has authored many research papers on a variety of neurosurgical topics including intracranial tumors.  Dr. Sanan's special interests including treatment of brain tumors, skull base tumors, cerebrovascular lesions and functional disorders such as trigeminal neuralgia.
   
 

 

 

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Eric Sipos, MD

Dr. Sipos completed advanced medical training at the Johns Hopkins University, and served as an active duty neurosurgeon for the U.S. Army. He was Director of Surgical Neurooncology and Director of Outpatient Neurosurgical Services at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.   He has held academic appointments at the Uniformed Services University  Health Sciences, at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and is currently practicing with Western Neurosurgery in Tucson, Arizona.