Neurosurgery

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Halifax Health has collaborated with UF Health to bring advanced Neurosurgery to Volusia, Flagler and Brevard Counties. Board-certified and fellowship-trained neurosurgeons from UF Health lead the program and are located at the main campus of Halifax Health in Daytona Beach.

Halifax Health serves as the areas only Level II Trauma Center and through this partnership with UF Health we have expanded on the services available to our community reach in Florida.

What We Offer

Our compassionate neurosurgeons are able to assess your spine, expedite imaging and provide pain relief solutions, all in one convenient location. Benefit from a continuum of care that will rehabilitate you and alleviate your pain long term.

While other places may offer temporary relief, here we provide every patient access to all the specialists they need for minimally invasive spine surgery, such as experts in neurosurgery, spine imaging, spine rehabilitation, pain management, and anesthesiology.

Interventional Spine Surgeries

We offer minimally invasive procedures and special imaging technology.

  • Microdiscectomies
  • Minimally invasive laminectomies
  • Spinal fusions
  • Spine fracture surgery)
  • Surgical treatment of spine tumors
  • Congenital and acquired cervico-occipital junction abnormalities
  • Cervical discectomy, laminectomy and fusion procedures
  • Lumbar and cervical artificial disc placement
  • Cervical spine surgery
  • Decompression pars defect
  • Discectomy
  • Facetectomy
  • Foraminotomy
  • Laminectomy
  • Laminotomy
  • Lumbar spine surgery
  • Resection of osteophytes
  • Spinal decompression surgery
  • Spinal hardware removal
  • Thoracic spine surgery
  • Syringomyelia

Peripheral Nerve Treatments

We treat more than 100 different injuries, diseases, or conditions.

  • Stereotactic Microsurgery for Cerebral AVMs and Aneurysms
  • Stereotactic Radiosurgery for AVMs
  • Revascularization of the Blood Supply
  • Skull lesions
  • Brain tumor biopsy and resection
  • Intracranial hemorrhages
  • Ventriculoperitoneal shunt for hydrocephalus
  • Pituitary transphenoidal tumor resection
  • Sub-occipital decompression for Chiari Malformation
  • Cranial vault reconstruction
  • Carotid Endarterectomy

Cranial Vault Procedures

Your child will receive care from an interdisciplinary team of experts.

  • Carpal tunnel release
  • Ulnar nerve decompression
  • Peripheral nerve surgery
  • Peripheral nerve tumors

Meet Your Neurosurgery Team

Neurosurgery Doctors

Patrick P. Han, MD, Medical Director
Neurosurgeon
Patrick P. Han, MD, Medical Director
Neurosurgeon
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Silvia Baxter, MD
Neurosurgeon
Silvia Baxter, MD
Neurosurgeon
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Mark Bender, MD, DC
Interventional Pain Medicine
Mark Bender, MD, DC
Interventional Pain Medicine

Mark Bender, MD, DC, an interventional pain medicine specialist, has joined the medical team at UF Health Pain Medicine at Halifax Health, located at 311 N. Clyde Morris Blvd., Suite 440 Daytona Beach, Fla 32114.

Dr. Bender earned his medical degree at University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine in Tampa, Fla., where he was valedictorian and a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at Orlando Health in Orlando, Fla., and his fellowship in pain medicine at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Fla.

Prior to his medical training, he received a doctorate in chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in Daytona Beach, Fla. With a successful business practice in South Florida, Dr. Bender witnessed people suffer from pain that he was not able to treat as a chiropractor. Wanting to affect people on a deeper level, he spent the intervening years training to become an expert in minimally invasive spine care.

He has been heavily involved in research and has written nineteen articles and a book chapter related to his field. The majority of his research involved the treatment of musculoskeletal and spine-related disorders. Dr. Bender has a passion for community service and has been on several medical mission trips in the Dominican Republic and Fiji.

In his free time, he loves being outdoors surfing, wakeboarding, rock climbing and traveling. He also enjoys playing the drums.

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Jason E. Blatt, MD
Neurosurgeon
Jason E. Blatt, MD
Neurosurgeon
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Rohit Khanna, MD
Neurosurgeon
Rohit Khanna, MD
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Paul Krafft, MD
Neurosurgeon
Paul Krafft, MD
Neurosurgeon
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Ian Tafel, MD
Neurosurgeon
Ian Tafel, MD
Neurosurgeon
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The UF Health Spine Center at Halifax Health offers a range of minimally invasive solutions to back, neck and spine pain. Get back to doing what you love.