Rory Mayer, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
M.D.
Baylor College of Medicine
Residency, Neurosurgery
Baylor College of Medicine
Fellowship, Complex & Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery
University of California, San Francisco
About
Rory Mayer is a dual fellowship-trained neurosurgeon with expertise in adolescent and adult scoliosis and spinal deformity surgery. He is the director of the neurosurgical spinal deformity service at Ascension Texas Spine and Scoliosis and has a practice specializing in complex spine disorders, scoliosis and spine tumor surgery. In addition, Mayer has extensive training in minimally invasive techniques to treat these complex conditions, and is also an expert in traditional open surgery.
Mayer completed medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in 2012 and later became chief resident there in the Department of Neurosurgery. He completed a fellowship in complex and minimally invasive spine surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, in 2020. Mayer also completed an enfolded fellowship in neurocritical care and spine trauma at the Baylor College of Medicine. He completed additional subspecialty training in neurosurgical oncology and spine tumor surgery at the world-renowned MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and pediatric spinal deformity at Texas Children’s Hospital. He has served as a clinical instructor in the Department of Neurosurgery at UCSF and has been a consulting neurotrauma surgeon to the National Football League.
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Scoliosis Research Society
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Lumbar Spine Research Society
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Congress of Neurological Surgeons
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American Association of Neurological Surgeons
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Clinical Fellowship Grant, Spine Surgery
Neurosurgery Research & Education Foundation -
Charlie Kuntz Scholar Award
AANS/CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine & Peripheral Nerves, 2016 -
Kinjiro Iwata, M.D. Award for Excellence in Neurosurgery
Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, 2012