Maury Regional adds neurosurgery to its services

Maury Regional adds neurosurgery to its services

Maury Regional Medical Center (MRMC) has added neurosurgery to its list of specialties with the addition of Mark Cobb, M.D., assistant professor of Neurological Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Mark Cobb, M.D.

MRMC will now offer procedures never before conducted in southern Middle Tennessee. New services will include craniotomies and radiosurgery for brain tumors, stereotactic biopsies of the brain and management of chronic subdural hematomas.

Additional neurosurgical services include spinal surgery for degenerative disease, cervical and lumbar stenosis, disk herniation, spinal instability and removal of benign and malignant spinal tumors.

Cobb comes to Maury Regional from Saint Mary’s Medical Center in Evansville, Ind., where he previously served as chief of the Division of Neurosurgery and president of Medical Staff. He received his medical degree from Vanderbilt University and completed his residency at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and a fellowship in epilepsy surgery at Yale University School of Medicine.

Cobb’s office is located in Suite 302 of Maury Regional Medical Center Medical Office Building, 1222 Trotwood Ave., Columbia.