Kenneth Ott, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Dr. Ott has practiced neurosurgery for twenty one years in San Diego, joining Dr. Assam at the NMC following his residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston in 1976. Prior to residency he attended Yale University and U.C. San Francisco School of Medicine. He has been the Chief of the Divisions of Neurosurgery at Mercy Hospital and Scripps Memorial Hospital. He developed the Gamma Knife radiosurgery program at Scripps Hospital in 1994. Currently he is the Executive Director of the San Diego Gamma Knife Center.

Secretary : Glory Hammond
Offices: Hillcrest and La Jolla
tel: (619) 297-4481
fax: (629) 297- 5581
e-mail: kott@cts.com

Areas of special interest: minimally invasive forms of neurosurgery such as outpatient microlumbar discetomy and anterior cervical disectomy, Gamma Knife radiosurgery, image-guided frameless and frame-based stereotactic surgery, functional neurosurgery for Parkinson’s disease and endoscopic sympathectomy for hyperhydrosis as well as pituitary tumor surgery.


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