Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Department of Neurosurgery
The Department of Neurosurgery at the Baylor Scott & White Medical Center, is at the forefront of clinical care, education, and scientific research in Neurosurgery. Our neurosurgeons are renowned for their expertise in all subspecialty areas of neurosurgery including cerebrovascular disease, neurosurgical oncology, neurotrauma, skull-based tumors, pain and functional neurosurgery, complex spinal reconstruction, as well as peripheral nerve surgery. We have an ACGME accredited Neurosurgery Residency Program affiliated with Texas A&M University College of Medicine, the only neurosurgical residency in Central Texas.
It is our vision to provide our patients life-changing and innovative treatment and care. We do this by training and educating the best neurosurgeons in the country, conducting cutting edge clinical and translational research, and by providing a constant, consistent, and rigorous continuing education curriculum to students, residents, staff, and physicians.
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center is a 636-bed multi-specialty teaching hospital that was founded in 1897, when Dr. Arthur C. Scott and Dr. Raleigh R. White, Jr, opened the Temple Sanitarium in Temple Texas. BSWMC is currently an ACS certified level-I Trauma Center and JACHO certified Comprehensive Stroke Center. It was recently ranked #5 in the country among major teaching hospitals by Fortune/IBM Watson Health 100 TOP Hospitals in the US in 2020. Its parent organization, Baylor Scott & White Health, is the largest not-for-profit Health system in Texas with over $10B annual revenue and has been ranked #3 of TOP 15 in Major Health Systems in the United States by Fortune/IBM Watson Health in 2020.
