Healthgrades America's 100 Best Hospitals for Spine Surgery award for UMC and Nexus Neurosurgery.

Nexus Neurosurgery

Welcome to Nexus Neurosurgery, where cutting edge technology and advanced skills work together to deliver the best outcome to our patients. We specialize in the surgical treatment of conditions of the neck, spine and brain.

Utilizing minimally invasive techniques whenever possible, we can provide excellent outcomes and minimize recovery time. We believe that decisions about you and your families health are personal, so our approach to your care will also be personal.

What is Neuroscience?

It is the medical specialty focused on the diagnosis and treatment of patients with injury to, or diseases/disorders of the spinal cord and spinal column, peripheral nerves throughout the body and the brain.

Jaime Gasco, M.D., FAANS, FEBNS

Medical Director of Neurosurgery, UMC Surgical Hospital

• Brain, spine, and peripheral nerve surgery
• Minimally invasive spine surgery
• Pain management including ESI injections and blocks.
• Click here for Dr. Gasco's full bio.

Harold K. Smith, M.D., FAANS

Medical Director of Neurosurgery, UMC Main Campus

• Image-guided spine surgery
• Robotic-assisted spine procedures
• Spinal instability and reconstruction
• Complex revision spine surgery
• Click here for Dr. Smith's full bio.

Neurosurgeon

• Brain tumor care
• Comprehensive cerebrovascular neurosurgery
  • Includes open and endovascular options
• Endovascular and minimally invasive neurosurgical procedures
• Neurosurgical oncology
  • Brain tumors
    • Spine tumors
      • Click here for Dr. Cotton's full bio.

James Lee, M.D.

Neurosurgeon

• Spinal deformity
• Spinal stenosis and disc herniation
• Selected spinal tumor cases
• Degenerative spine conditions

 

• Click here for Dr. Lee's full bio.

Kristopher G. Hooten, M.D.

Medical Director of Neurosurgical Quality

• Comprehensive pediatric neurological surgery
• Minimally invasive spine surgery
• Neurosurgical trauma and critical care
• Spine trauma
• Scoliosis and spine deformity surgery
• Spinal tumors
• Degenerative spine surgery
• Chiari malformations

Click here for Dr. Hooten's full bio.

Jose Marin Sanchez, M.D.

Neurosurgeon

• Complex spine surgery
• Minimally invasive spine surgery
• Spinal tumors
• Degenerative spine disease
• Traumatic spine injury
• Spinal deformity
• Traumatic brain injury
• Brain tumors
• Trigeminal Neuralgia
• Hydrocephalus
• Click here for Dr. Marin Sanchez's full bio.

Service Location

  UMC Main Campus

  4815 Alameda Ave., El Paso, TX 79905