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Stanford Spine Team

Stanford Spine, Jon Park, MDJon Park, MD

Director, Comprehensive Spine Neurosurgery
Director, Spine Neurosurgery Fellowship/Spine Research Laboratory

Dr. Park has extensive clinical practice at Stanford in outpatient minimally invasive spine surgery involving spine disc disease, degenerative spinal disorders and compression fractures. He also has special clinical interest in reconstruction of complex spine traumas and treatment of spinal tumors using Cyberknife Radiosurgery.

Dr. Jon Park's research interest includes non-fusion dynamic spinal stabilization, articificial disc technologies, and regenerative spinal technologies.

Dr. Park completed his neurosurgical residency from the world renown Montreal Neurological Institute. After completing a spine fellowship at UCLA, he was an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Washington prior to joining Stanford faculty.

 

Stephen Ryu, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery


Dr. Ryu received his MD from the University fo California at San Diego after receiving a BS and MS from Stanford University. He completed his neurosurgical residency at Stanford University.

He completed a spine fellowship in minimally invasive spine surgery before joining the faculty at Stanford. His research interests include stereotactic radiosurgery of the spine, minimally invasive spine surgery, and brain-machine interfaces.

 

 


Larry Shuer, MD

Professor of Neurosurgery

Chief of Staff, Stanford Hospital & Clinics


Dr. Shuer received his BA and MD from the University of Michigan. He completed his residency in neurosurgery at Stanford University before joining the faculty.


He is the Chief of Staff of Stanford University Hospital and a past president of the California Association of Neurological Surgeons. His research interests include syringomyelia, pediatric disorders, and degenerative spine disease.



Nurse Practitioners

Mike Christensen, NP

Mike graduated with a BS in Nursing from San Jose State University in 1984.  He obtained his Master's Degree in Nursing from the University of California, San Francisco in 1989 with a specialty in Neuroscience Nursing. 

He returned to UCSF in 1999 to complete training as a Nurse Practitioner. 

His interests include neurological trauma and spine neurosurgery.



 

Irina Bilenkaya, NP

Irina received her degree in Biological Sciences from University of California, Irvine. She completed her Masters degree and Family Nurse Practitioner program at University of California, San Francisco.

In parallel to her interests, she has worked with total brain injury patients and spinal trauma patients.

Her current interests also include degenerative spine disease.



 

Candice Osuga Lin, NP

Candice earned her BS in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Davis. She received her Master of Science in Nursing from Vanderbilt University. 

She has been active in the care of adult and pediatric neurosurgery patients.  Her interests include neuro-oncology and degenerative spine disease.

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