Kent Sauter, M.D.

Dr. Kent Sauter, M.D. joined University Neurosurgery in 2004. He is a native of Mobile, Alabama, and graduated from the University of South Alabama in 1980. He completed medical school at the University of South Alabama in 1989 where he served as President of AΩA Honor Medical Society. Dr. Sauter subsequently completed his residency in Neurological Surgery in 1995 at the West Virginia University Hospital in Morgantown, West Virginia.

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Dr. Sauter was in academic practice at the University of South Alabama Department of Neurosurgery in Mobile from 1995 to 2004, where he served as Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery with a primary focus on spinal trauma. He was selected to join the practice of Drs. Fred and James Killeffer in neurosurgery at Knoxville in 2004. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

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Dr. Sauter has taught medical students and residents the general aspects of neurosurgical diseases and has authored peer-reviewed neurosurgical literature in areas including neuroanatomy, hydrocephalus, spinal implants, subarachnoid hemorrhage, tumors, encephalitis, and functional neurosurgery.

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Dr. Sauter’s current practice includes treatment of a broad spectrum of adult neurosurgical problems including the brain, spine, and peripheral nerve surgery. Special interests include minimally invasive techniques in brain and spinal surgery, complex spinal surgery, radiosurgery, and kyphoplasty for the treatment of osteoporotic compression fractures. He has based his practice at a university teaching hospital to give his patients access to comprehensive multi-disciplinary care of neurosurgical problems.

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Dr. Sauter’s interests outside of medicine include amateur radio, photography, and flying. He holds an Advanced Class Amateur Radio License and a Private Pilots Certificate. He is active in the amateur radio Hospital Network providing emergency radio communications between hospitals.

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