Mark R. Witcher, MD
Functional Neurosurgery
Neurosurgery Residency Program Director
VTC Faculty
"Providing care for Functional Neurosurgical patients is a great privilege. The patients impacted by movement disorders, chronic pain disorders and epilepsy often find their quality of life tremendously impacted by these debilitating conditions. By providing world-class, cutting-edge treatments personalized to serve each patient’s needs, we can help them reclaim the most important aspects of their lives."
Videos
Focused Ultrasound for Essential Tremor
2 minutes 40 seconds
Carilion Clinic is the only health care system in our region to offer advanced technology focused ultrasound--an incisionless treatment for essential tremor and tremor-dominant Parkinson’s disease for patients who have not responded to medication. Neurosurgeon Mark Witcher, M.D., Ph.D., treats patient Joe Santos to significantly reduce signs of tremor with lasting results. To learn if focused ultrasound may be right for you, call 540-512-1440 or email questions to FocusedUltrasound@carilionclinic.org. Learn more https://www.CarilionClinic.org/focused-ultrasound Audio described version: https://youtu.be/XMSN5c2S7Fg
Chelsey's Return to Normal Life: An Epilepsy Journey
2 minutes 37 seconds
An epilepsy diagnosis left Chelsey Mayhew and her family looking for treatment options close to home. Mark Witcher, M.D., a Carilion Clinic Neurosurgeon is one of the first in the region to offer a less invasive laser ablation treatment option. This is Chelsey's journey to live a life seizure free. Audio described version: https://youtu.be/DDxWKAQw4s8
Deep Brain Stimulation at Carilion Clinic
2 minutes 11 seconds
Mark R. Witcher, M.D., Ph.D., Carilion Clinic Neurosurgeon explains Deep Brain Stimulation options for patients. https://www.carilionclinic.org/neurosurgery. Audio described version: https://youtu.be/P3RDwfaYKnI
Locations
Background
Medical School
- Medical College of Georgia
Fellowships
- Emory University School of Medicine
Specialties or Medical Focus
- Functional Neurosurgery
- Neurosurgery
- Trauma/Surgical Critical Care
- Brain, Spine, and Neurology Care
- Movement Disorders
- Vagal Nerve Stimulation
Internships
- Wake Forest University School of Medicine
NPI
- 1568606747
Residencies
- Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Services
Conditions Treated
- Atypical facial pain
- Benign tremor
- Dystonia
- Essential tremor and familial tremor
- Generalized epilepsy
- Lesional and nonlesional epilepsy
- Pain disorders
- Parkinson's Disease
- Radiculopathy
- Skull base neurosurgery
- Stroke paralysis
- Temporal lobe epilepsy
- Trigeminal neuralgia
Treatments Offered
- Deep brain stimulation
- Epilepsy surgery
- Focused ultrasound
- Intracranial laser ablation
- Microvascular decompression
- NeuroPace responsive neurostimulation for Epilepsy
- Robot-assisted neurosurgery
- Spinal cord stimulation
- Stereotactic radiosurgery/CyberKnife
- Vagal Nerve Stimulation (VNS)
Ratings and Reviews
Accepted Insurance
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Doctor and nurse were energetic and engaging. They explained procedure and answered my questions taking time to go over process in detail.