Overlake Medical Center and EvergreenHealth have joined to form the Eastside Neuroscience Institute to deliver neuroscience and spine expertise to patients in their community. The Institute has locations at each hospital campus and offers specialties that focus on brain and spine tumors, epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis and strokes.
“One of the really cool things about neurology, neurosurgery and spine care is our care is getting better and better all of the time, and our ability to impact things is better,” said Dr. David Likosky, a board-certified neurologist and the executive medical director of Eastside Neuroscience Institute.
However, the Institute is also focused on cutting-edge research. The key is to figure out the most effective and least invasive treatments for neurological disorders.
“Really the foundation of much of this is a large research group, and then physicians working together building on that,” Dr. Likosky said. “And we’ve continued both. And then with the two hospitals coming together now to really care for our community and our patients.”
To learn more about the Eastside Neuroscience Institute, visit eastsideneuroinstitute.org. (Tim Pfarr)
