After years of waiting, months of planning and hours in the OR, Angela Atkinson of Redford feels a sense of relief. Her son, Ramon Aguilar, Jr., 16, born with facial abnormalities is getting the specialized care he needs.

Back in September, after Angela found out Beaumont has a Craniofacial and Cleft Palate Clinic, she met with nurse navigator Jennifer Brabant. She was overwhelmed with what she heard. After arriving home she burst into tears.
At last she had found a group of specialists that offered hope and help for Ramon.

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A 2011 Thomson Reuters Top 100 Hospital, Beaumont's Neuroscience Center of Excellence covers a full array of some of the most advanced spine and neurosurgical procedures. Beaumont offers a spine reconstruction program and also has a Spine Fracture Clinic, which provides the latest minimally invasive spine surgeries for patients with accidental and traumatic spine fractures.

Mick Perez-Cruet, M.D., is the chief of minimally invasive spine surgery at Beaumont and is internationally renowned for pioneering treatments of spinal disorders.

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The Epilepsy Clinic at Beaumont, Royal Oak recently opened as a sub-specialty neuroscience center that offers collaborative treatment for patients suffering from intractable epilepsy, women of child bearing age with epilepsy and other complex forms of the disorder.

The neuroscience center is under the medical direction of epileptologist, Shaila Gowda, M.D. Dr. Gowda is a neuroscience specialist in the pre-surgical evaluation and medical treatment of epilepsy in both pediatric and adult patients.

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Beaumont Hospitals’ has teamed up with neurosurgeons, radiation oncologists and neuro-oncologists to open a Brain and Spinal Cord Tumor Clinic at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak.

The new clinic, opened April 6, offers expedited, multidisciplinary care for diagnosing and treating brain and spinal cord tumors.

The clinic’s team of neuroscience specialists includes: neuroradiologists; neuropathologists; neuro-oncologists; neurosurgeons; doctors of physical medicine and rehabilitation; social workers; psychologists; nurses; dietitians; and integrative medicine specialists.

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