Neurosurgery

Keep Moving Forward.

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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Jason E. Blatt, MD
Neurosurgeon
Jason E. Blatt, MD
Neurosurgeon
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Rohit Khanna, MD
Neurosurgeon
Rohit Khanna, MD
Neurosurgeon
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Paul Krafft, MD
Neurosurgeon
Paul Krafft, MD
Neurosurgeon
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Ian Tafel, MD
Neurosurgeon
Ian Tafel, MD
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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.