Natural Medicine & Rehabilitation is excited to introduce our affiliation with Dr. John Lipani who will be providing surgical consultation for back pain patients.
Dealing with back pain can be very stressful and cause a great deal of worry. Seeking medical advice to act upon your pain correctly is critical. For over 15 years NMR has been helping their patients manage pain with a holistic approach which integrates the services of physical therapy, chiropractic and acupuncture for long term pain management and to help strengthen the spine. Strengthening your spine is valuable in order to avoid surgery, defer it or to strengthen and rehabilitate your spine after an ultimately needed surgery.
In some cases surgery is an unavoidable solution. For these patients, we are excited to introduce our affiliation with Dr. John Lipani, Neurosurgeon and the founding Director of Princeton Neurological Surgery Spine Institute and the JD Lipani Radiosurgery Institute.
Dr. Lipani will be the surgical consultant for NMR’s spine related cases. Dr. Lipani specializes in minimally invasive and complex spinal surgery.
Dr. Lipani is the founding Director of the JD Lipani Radiosurgery Institute and Princeton Neurological Surgery, P.C. He previously served as the founding Director of the Institute for Neurosciences at Capital Health in Trenton, NJ. Dr. Lipani also headed the first Neurosurgical Oncology program at Capital Health and founded Capital’s CyberKnife Radiosurgery program of the Penn Cancer Network.
Prior to Capital Health, Dr. Lipani served as a Clinical Instructor in Neurosurgery at Stanford University Hospital and Clinics and is currently an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Jefferson Medical College.
Dr. Lipani is Board Certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgeons, a Fellow of theAmerican Association of Neurological Surgeons, and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
Dr. Lipani received his training in neurosurgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia of the University of Pennsylvania. He spent several years at the Delaware Valley Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center at Jefferson, one of the nation’s 16 centers of excellence for spinal disorders and participated in the combined neurosurgical and orthopedic spine fellowship program. He completed a fellowship at NYU Medical Center in neurosurgery with a focus on complex spinal surgery which remains a significant part of his current practice. Dr. Lipani also completed a fellowship in neurosurgical oncology and radiosurgery at Stanford University Medical Center and Stanford Cancer Institute. Dr. Lipani received extensive training in CyberKnife radiosurgery under Professor John R. Adler, MD, inventor of CyberKnife. Dr. Lipani remains one of a select few neurosurgeons worldwide to have completed this prestigious and exclusive fellowship training program. During his time at Stanford, Dr. Lipani received the Radiosurgery Society’s Physician Scientist Award for his research devoted to the treatment of primary brain tumors. Dr. Lipani also received specialized post-residency training in Gamma Knife radiosurgery under Professor L. Dade Lunsford at the University of Pittsburgh, the birthplace of the North American Gamma Knife.
Having treated over 3,500 brain and spine radiosurgery cases, Dr. Lipani is known as one of the nation’s top brain and spine surgeons and serves as a leading expert in brain and spine radiosurgery on three internationally recognized advisory review boards. He has lectured and authored numerous peer-reviewed abstracts, articles, and book chapters on brain and spine radiosurgery. Dr. Lipani also routinely performs image-guided brain surgery as well as invasive and minimally invasive spinal surgery.
Dr. Lipani is an active member of several professional societies including the Radiosurgery Society,Congress of Neurological Surgeons, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, North American Spine Society, and AANS/CNS Joint Section on Tumors.
