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Comprehensive Spine Center

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Learn more about the Comprehensive Spine Center's multidisciplinary provider team.

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The region's most advanced spine care.

The UF Health Comprehensive Spine Center – North provides state-of-the-art care for the treatment of complex spine conditions. Our highly trained multidisciplinary team is led by UF Health neurosurgeon Kourosh Tavanaiepour, DO. Our fellowship-trained, board-certified physicians specialize in all facets of management and surgical treatment of spinal conditions, including reconstructive spine surgery, complex spinal disorders, fractures and minimally invasive spine procedures.

Our goal is to improve every patient’s quality of life by providing the highest quality treatment in a compassionate, caring environment. The Comprehensive Spine Center medical team receives ongoing training in the latest techniques and offers care in a leading-edge academic health center featuring the newest advancements in technology.

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Why UF Health for spine care?

Many specialists, one goal

The UF Health Comprehensive Spine Center’s Peer Review Board meets weekly to review patient cases. Doctors specializing in spine conditions share test results and collaborate to ensure each patient receives the most effective personalized treatment.

Advanced facilities and technologies

Located at UF Health North, the Comprehensive Spine Center offers world-class facilities and the latest advancements in technology and treatment. Some of those treatments are the result of our own clinical research. State-of-the-art operating room technology combines sophisticated endoscopic-assisted microneurosurgery, image guidance and robotic-assisted surgery. Greater precision gives us optimum results.

Care so advanced, we teach it

As part of an academic health center, the team that works with you is made up of the brightest, most talented health care professionals in the country. They train the next generation of physicians, nurses and other providers and, through continuing education seminars, pass along the latest medical advances to current physicians.

We move medicine forward every day

We conduct cutting-edge research and clinical trials that give hope to patients from around the world. Our doctors share their knowledge by writing articles for numerous medical journals and text books.

Patient Concierge Services

World-class care begins with world-class service. Our clinical care coordinators provide patients with personal attention and care while guiding them through every step of their treatment. They are responsible for a wide range of duties, including:

  • Helping referring physicians admit new patients into our system
  • Acting as a liaison between patients and their physicians, ensuring patients’ questions are answered promptly
  • Gathering all necessary medical records to provide the best possible care
  • Coordinating and scheduling tests, procedures and appointments with all hospital departments
  • Ensuring all insurance requirements are met

For more information, please contact our patient care coordinators at 904-383-1022 or email UFSpineCenter@jax.ufl.edu.

Our Patients

Comprehensive Spine Center

A New Lease on Life

District Attorney Chris Jackson was diagnosed with degenerative disc disease in 2011. After years of pain, Jackson was referred to UF Health Neurosurgery – Jacksonville, where neurosurgeons removed the herniated disc.

District Attorney Chris Jackson was diagnosed with degenerative disc disease in 2011. After years of pain, Jackson was referred to UF Health Neurosurgery – Jacksonville, where neurosurgeons removed the herniated disc. Play Video

Comprehensive Spine Center

From Fight Night to the Operating Room: A Story of a Herniated Disc

After professional fighter Ariane Carnelossi's preliminary bout, she realized the pain from her injury was more than she could endure. Kourosh Tavanaiepour, DO, and Daryoush Tavanaiepour, MD, discuss Carnelossi’s injury and treatment at the UF Health Comprehensive Spine Center.

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