Appointments/Position-UT Medical Center

• Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery
• Chief, Division of Neurosurgery
• Co-Chairman, UT Brain and Spine Institute
• Clinical Director, Center for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

Training

• University of Arizona College of Medicine - 1971
• Residency: Neurosurgery: Univ. of Texas Health Science Center, Dallas, TX 1972-1977.
• Board Certified - 1981

Dr. Reid has more than 30 years of experience in the management of neurosurgical diseases, including microsurgery of aneurysms, brain tumors, and diseases of the spine. Since 1979 he has introduced many new procedures to the Knoxville area including transphenoidal surgery for pituitary tumors, extracranial to intracranial vascular bypass surgery, and new approaches for pineal region tumors.

More recently, his leadership has expanded to the use of minimally invasive techniques for spinal surgery using state of the art image guidance techniques. He has collaborated with Medtronics Sofamor Danek, a leader in image guidance technology, to develop new instrumentation for spinal image guided surgery.  In June 2008, Dr. Reid along with UT Medical Center established the Center for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery.  The Center is the first in Knoxville to focus on minimally invasive spine procedures.  Dr. Reid will serve as the Clinical Director of the Center.

He is the first neurosurgeon in East Tennessee to use Siemans ISO-C3D C-arm with a Sofamor Danek Stealth station to perform minimally invasive image guided spinal surgery at UT Medical Center.