Midwest Spine & Brain Institute history

1989 - The Frank H. Mayfield Society is formed as an alumni organization for graduates and fellows of the Mayfield-UC neurosurgery training program.

1991 - Mayfield neurosurgeons Ronald Warnick and John Tew along with University of Cincinnati researchers Peter Stambrook, Linda Parysek, Anil Menon, and Robert Brackenbury receive a three-year feasibility grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish a brain tumor research center.

1993 - Mario Zuccarello, MD, joins the Mayfield Neurological Institute.

1994 - The Atlas of Operative Microneurosurgery, Volume 1: Aneurysms and AVMs is published.

1996-98 - Thomas Saul, MD, serves as chairman of the board of the National Think First Foundation.

1997 - Mayfield Clinic's first Web site -- www.mayfieldclinic.com -- is launched.

In 1998 he departs Mayfield to assume full-time employment at Children’s.

1999 - The Mayfield Imaging Center opens in Crestview Hills, Kentucky.

2000 - Stewart B. Dunsker, MD, serves as president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.

2002 - Raj K. Narayan, MD, joins the Mayfield Clinic as the second Mayfield Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery.

2003 - Precision Radiotherapy Center opens.

2004 - Mayfield’s Ronald Warnick takes part in a federally funded study of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in cancer patients who have suffered brain damage from radiation treatments.

2006 - The Acoustic Neuroma Association names Mayfield’s John M. Tew, MD, to a third consecutive five-year term on its national Medical Advisory Board.

2007 - Mayfield’s George Mandybur, MD, is co-investigator of an animal study of deep brain stimulation’s potential to protect dopamine cells in Parkinson’s disease.

In 2008 The Neuroscience Institute is renamed the UC Neuroscience Institute (UCNI).

2009 - Mayfield’s John M. Tew, MD, leads successful surgical removal of fist-sized tumor with help of new technology that fuses four different types of images into a 3D map of the patient's brain.

2010 - The graduation of neurosurgical residents Marcella Madera, MD, and Ellen Air, MD, PhD, marks the first all-female class in the history of the Department of Neurosurgery.

June 2011 The Mayfield Clinic co-hosts the Acoustic Neuroma Association's 20th National Symposium, which draws support group leaders to Cincinnati from 26 states.

January 2013 - Doctor Arthur Arand assumes his position as Chairman of the Board and President of the Mayfield Clinic January 1, 2013, for a three-year term.

March 2014 – Mayfield mourns the passing of Doctor Paul Cohen, a young Mayfield neurosurgeon and assistant professor who died following a tragic skiing accident.

November 2016 – William Tobler, MD, becomes the first surgeon in the United States to perform a sacroiliac joint (SI) fusion at an outpatient spine surgery center using the RIALTO™ system with O-arm™ and StealthStation™ technology for 3-D navigation.