Officials at Boca Raton Regional Hospital’s Marcus Neuroscience Institute
today announced the addition of two physicians to the Institute’s
clinical leadership team: Patricio S. Espinosa, MD, MS, and Nicholas B.
Levine, MD. The doctors will begin practicing at the Institute in January.
“I am pleased to welcome Dr. Espinosa and Dr. Levine to our clinical
team, and even more so privileged to work alongside them,” said
Robert M. Levy, MD, PhD, Director of the Marcus Neuroscience Institute.
“Both arrive with the extensive knowledge, training and expertise
necessary to provide our patients with the most sophisticated level of
neurologic care.”
Dr. Espinosa will serve as the Director of General Adult Neurology at
the Institute. In addition to adult neurology, Dr. Espinosa specializes
in epilepsy and sleep disorders. He earned his bachelor’s from Colegio
El Sauce in Ecuador, his master’s from Johns Hopkins University
and his medical degree from the Universidad Central del Ecuador. He completed
a fellowship in epilepsy and sleep disorders at Harvard Medical School,
as well as residencies in internal medicine and neurology at the University
of Kentucky, where he served as Chief Neurology Resident. Dr. Espinosa
is the co-author of the textbook
Focus on Neuroimaging: Neurology Self- Assessment
and has authored chapters in several neurology textbooks. He has presented
work at both national and international medical conferences, and his research
has appeared in such noted peer-reviewed publications as
Neurology, Pediatric Neurology
and
Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery.
Dr. Levine has been named the Institute’s Director of Skull Base
Surgery, the complex sub-specialty of removing lesions located on the
floor of the cranium. He earned his bachelor’s from the University
of California, Los Angeles and his medical degree from the University
of Michigan Medical School. He completed a residency in neurosurgery and
a cerebrovascular surgery fellowship at the University of Cincinnati’s
College of Medicine, as well as a skull base/cerebrovascular fellowship
at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Dr. Levine most recently
served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at
the distinguished University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston
and Director of their Microsurgical Laboratory. He is an experienced researcher
whose work has been published in a variety of top peer-reviewed publications, such as
Neurosurgery, Journal of Neuro-oncology and Clinical Cancer Research.
The Marcus Neuroscience Institute was created out of a lead $25 million
grant from the Marcus Foundation and initiated by Billi and Bernie Marcus,
former CEO of The Home Depot. The facility houses a 20-bed Neuro Intensive
Care and Step-Down Unit and four dedicated operating rooms — including
one equipped with intraoperative MRI and two with intraoperative CT capabilities.
Each patient room is private and has special monitoring technology that
provides vital information on both a patient’s neurological and
cardiovascular functions. Rooms also feature an abundance of natural lighting
and an antechamber where family members can stay during the patient’s
hospitalization, as both of these factors have been shown to positively
influence recovery in neurological conditions.
About Boca Raton Regional Hospital – Advancing the boundaries of medicine.
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The Hospital is a recognized leader in oncology, cardiovascular disease
and surgery, minimally invasive surgery, orthopedics, women’s health,
emergency medicine and the neurosciences, all of which offer state-of-the-art
diagnostic and imaging capabilities. The Hospital is a designated Comprehensive
Stroke Center by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA).
Boca Raton Regional Hospital is the recipient of the 2014 Distinguished
Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™ for the 10th year in a row
and was named one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals in 2011, 2012,
2013 and 2014, both by Healthgrades®. Boca Raton Regional Hospital
was also recognized for the third consecutive year in U.S. News &
World Report’s 2013–2014 Best Hospitals listing as a top-ranked
hospital in the South Florida metropolitan area.
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