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José A. Menéndez, MD, FAANS, FACS
Arizona Neurosurgery and Spine At The CORE Institute
Neurosurgery
Phoenix, AZ
4.4
174 Ratings
75 Comments
José Menéndez, MD, FAANS, FACS is a Board Certified and Fellowship Trained Neurosurgeon at The CORE Institute. He specializes in the use of minimally invasive techniques for the surgical management of brain and spine problems. He has trained many surgeons in the use of these procedures and continues to help develop better alternatives for patient care through research.
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4.4
174 Ratings
75 Comments
José Menéndez, MD, FAANS, FACS is a Board Certified and Fellowship Trained Neurosurgeon at The CORE Institute. He specializes in the use of minimally invasive techniques for the surgical management of brain and spine problems. He has trained many surgeons in the use of these procedures and continues to help develop better alternatives for patient care through research.
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Arizona Neurosurgery & Spine - Phoenix
1331 N 7TH Street
Suite 405
Phoenix, AZ 85006
Suite 405
Phoenix, AZ 85006
José Menéndez, MD, FAANS, FACS is a Board Certified and Fellowship Trained Neurosurgeon at The CORE Institute. He specializes in the use of minimally invasive techniques for the surgical management of brain and spine problems. He has trained many surgeons in the use of these procedures and continues to help develop better alternatives for patient care through research. He is one of few surgeons in the state who performs surgeries for brain pathologies through less-traumatic and less-invasive options, marrying the most recent advances in technology with surgical innovation and ultimately improving patient care with a safer and faster recovery. He also specializes in the surgical treatment of epilepsy.
Dr. Menéndez grew up on the border between Texas and Mexico and is very proud of his dual-culture upbringing. He earned his Medical Degree from the Instituto Tecnológicoy de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, which is the highest-ranked education institution in Mexico and one of the most prestigious in the world, where he graduated with the highest honors. He completed his neurosurgical residency at Washington University in St. Louis, where he had the opportunity to rotate at the National Referral Centre for Neurosurgery at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, Ireland. He obtained further specialized training in complex spinal surgery and surgical treatment of epilepsy.
Dr. Menéndez is an assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine–Phoenix and serves as the chairman of neurotrauma at Banner University Medical Center in Phoenix. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and is a member of the American Board of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the North American Spine Society, and the International Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery.
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Dr Melendez is a very thoughtful and caring person.
Dr Menendez did surgery on my lower back in January of this year. Doctors from prominent spinal hospitals weren’t sure they could help me. They told me they had only seen backs like mine but hadn’t operated on anyone with a spine like mine. He was confident he could. So after 24 years of pain and mobility issues. I’m a new person. His bed side manner makes him exceptional beyond him being a brilliant surgeon. Now 7 months later he will be doing surgery on my neck. Once again other surgeon’s didn’t feel comfortable doing surgery on my neck. I will never let any other neurosurgeon operate on me ever again. A brilliant and kind doctor!
This doctor is a very competent man. My surgery went very well. I’m very pleased with him.
I visited the provider today to get a third opinion for surgery since the previous surgeons did not want to do surgery on my neck. I have cervical radiculopathy and the pain is unbearable without medicaation, but was seeking a surgery consultation in order to determine whether surgery would be a long-term solution to this excruciating pain which I have been living with for almost 2 years. When I arrived at the office the horrible medical assistant named Josie was so rude to me I had to leave the room and ask for the manager.Then Dr Menendez came in, all ego,no compassion. He pulled up my MRI which clearly showed the disease processes in my neck and other areas of my body. Dr Menendez told me that I although I am a candidate for surgery, will not perform surgery because he was told by the leadership team not perform surgery on me since I was recently fired from the pain management doctor. He was cold and calculating and yelled "NEVER AGAIN" as he left the exam room.
Dr. Menendez listens well, shows understanding, and explains thoroughly. All of my questions were answered. I feel that I am in good hands for surgery.
Informative concerned and was very professional in speaking to me about my physical problem..
talks down to patients, provides wrong information and no regards with follow up appoints to provide up date information for out of town patients. I travel 3 hours one way to have an in person follow up visit when it can be taken care off by phone.
I have never left a negative review on anyone or any place of business before. After waiting for more than 30 min in a room, Dr. Menendez finally came in and spent less than 3 min with me. He seemed annoyed right off the bat. I have never felt like I was more of a waste of someone's time or an inconvenience than I did with Dr. Menendez, and he pretty much told me that I was. Despite having a previous spinal fusion and laminectomy and currently being in excruciating pain for more than a month with limited mobility, I left with no plan or guidance for immediate pain relief of any kind and an appointment 6 weeks from now with his PA in Phoenix to look at an MRI that may or may not happen. I'm sorry I was such a waste of your time Dr. Menendez. The feeling was mutual. Patients, and people in general, should never be treated the way I was treated today. If your family member had been dismissed as I had, I doubt you would have been okay with it. Do better.
Amazingly confident, humble and genuine. Dr. took my case wholehearted and was attentive to the urgency of my needs. God Bless you Dr., the Lord put you in my path today. Please keep your heart open to helping those who lose hope. Thank you! Thank you!
I’m feeling great. Have in proved to my. Old self