Surgeons
Dr. Richard Byrne
Dr. Byrne is a board certified neurological surgeon and professor with Rush University. His clinical expertise covers numerous areas, including acoustic and brain tumors, epilepsy, microvascular decompression, stereotactic surgery, trigeminal neuralgia and vagus nerve stimulation.
He earned a medical degree from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and completed a neurological surgery residency with Rush University Medical Center.
Dr. Lorenzo Munoz
Dr. Munoz is a board certified neurological surgeon and professor with Rush University. His clinical expertise covers numerous areas, including spinal and brain tumors, brain aneurysms, chiari malformation, degenerative disc disease, hydrocephalus, neuromicrosurgery, spine surgery, syrinx and tethered cord syndrome and vascular malformations.
He earned a medical degree from the Ponce School of Medicine in Puerto Rico and completed a neurological surgery residency with the University of Illinois Medical Center. He also completed fellowships with the University of Illinois Medical Center and Children’s Memorial Hospital.
Dr. John O’Toole
Dr. O’Toole is a board certified neurological surgeon and assistant professor with Rush University. His clinical expertise includes degenerative disc disease, kyphoplasty, spinal cord surgery, spinal tumors and vertebroplasty.
He earned a medical degree form Harvard Medical School and completed a neurological surgery residency with the Neurological Institute of New York at Columbia University. He also completed a fellowship with the University of Chicago Medical Center.
Dr. Demetrius Lopes
Dr. Lopes is a board certified neurological surgeon and assistant professor with Rush University. His clinical expertise covers numerous areas, including brain aneurysms, cerebral angiography, arteriovenous malformations, endovascular and vascular surgery, intracerebral hemorrhage, microvascular decompression, stroke and subarachnoid hemorrhage and vascular surgery.
He earned a medical degree from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil and completed a a neurological surgery residency with State University of New York at Buffalo, where he also completed an endovascular neurosurgery fellowship.