PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Two highly skilled neurosurgeons have joined the medical staff at Sacred Heart Hospital. Dr. Michael L. Goodman and Dr. Paul Wang will see patients starting in mid-August from offices of Sacred Heart Medical Group at the hospital's Ninth Avenue campus.

 "We are very fortunate to attract two outstanding neurosurgeons to Pensacola who will bring an impressive level of training and skill," said Dr. Fred Mixon, medical director of Sacred Heart Medical Group. "Neurosurgeons are very hard to recruit and to find two surgeons of this caliber is a big plus for our hospital and our community."

 Dr. Goodman is board certified in neurological surgery. He most recently served as chief of neurosurgery at Forrest General Hospital and at the Hattiesburg Clinic.  He obtained his medical degree at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1981 and performed his internship in surgery at Duke University Medical Center.  He then completed six years of residency training and fellowship training in neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
He has advanced training in radiosurgery and stereotactic neurosurgery. Dr. Goodman was the first radiosurgery fellow at the University of Pittsburgh in 1988. He previously served as an attending neurosurgeon at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, where he started the fourth gamma knife center in the United States (and only the seventh in the world at that time.).

 Dr. Paul Wang received his doctor of medicine degree from Harvard Medical School in Boston in 1997 and then went on to complete his surgical internship, neurosurgery training and advanced specialty training at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md.  His training included a fellowship in neuro-oncology.

 Before joining Dr. Goodman two years ago, he practiced for two years as a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He earned his bachelor's degree and master's degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.

Treatments offered by Dr. Wang and Dr. Goodman include treatment of:  tumors, aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, carotid and vertebral artery disease, spinal disc herniations (including cervical artificial discs), spinal stenosis, degenerative disc disease, spinal cord injuries,  peripheral nerve injuries, vertebral augmentation (vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty), peripheral entrapment neuropathies (including carpal and cubital tunnel syndromes), and functional disorders such as trigeminal neuralgia hemifacial spasm , chronic pain, and some movement disorder and some types of epilepsy.  

For more information, please call 850-416-2554.
 

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