New Neurosurgeon Joins CHH Medical Staff
Last updated: 06/26/2007
Bryan R. Payne, MD, a highly trained and experienced neurosurgeon from New Orleans, has joined the Cabell Huntington Hospital Medical and Dental Staff, allowing the hospital to resume the care and treatment of patients suffering from head trauma. In addition to providing neurosurgical care at Cabell Huntington Hospital, Payne will develop and chair a new Department of Neurosciences at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. Under his direction, the department is expected to grow to include additional neurosurgeons and neurologists, who will bring comprehensive, state-of-the-art services and technologies to the area.
"We are absolutely thrilled to have brought a neurosurgeon of Dr. Payne's caliber onto our medical staff," said Brent Marsteller, president and chief executive officer of Cabell Huntington Hospital. "This is just the beginning of what will be a very exciting period of growth and development for our hospital, the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine and health care in our region." "To the wide range of diagnostic and treatment services our physicians now offer through our medical center and the Edwards Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dr. Payne brings an exceptional background in central nervous system neoplasms and movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease," said Dr. Charles H. McKown Jr., MU's vice president of health sciences and dean of the school of medicine. "His expertise will be a tremendous asset to patients in the region."
Most recently, Payne served as medical director of the New Orleans Regional Gamma Knife Center. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Kentucky and earned his medical degree from the University of Louisville School of Medicine, completed a general surgery internship and neurosurgery residency at Louisiana State University, and completed a fellowship at the Lars Leksell Center for Radiosurgery at the University of Virginia and a fellowship in functional and stereotactic neurosurgery at Emory University. Payne is certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgeons and is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgery, the Leksell Gamma Knife Society, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and the Society of Neuroscience.
"We are extraordinarily fortunate in our community and our medical school to be able to recruit a superb surgeon with such outstanding training, experience and overall credentials in neurological surgery," McKown added. "As a native of Kentucky, he brings with him a great familiarity with our region's health problems."
Payne is accepting patient appointments for his office practice. You may contact him by calling (304) 691-1262.