Allina Health Brain and Spine Institute

Our specialized physicians and skilled staff have created inventive, leading programs using advanced technology and dedicated facilities to make the Allina Health Brain and Spine Institute (AHBSI) a comprehensive resource for neurological care for our patients and their families.

We diagnose and treat patients with a vast array of neurological disorders, including stroke, brain aneurysms, brain tumors, epilepsy and seizure disorders, movement and balance disorders and multiple sclerosis.

Learn more about our neurological services and conditions our experts treat.

We are constantly evolving to meet the needs of our entire community now, because we know neurological care can't wait. A sampling of our expanding care:

• We're first in the Twin Cities to offer focused ultrasound, an incisionless brain surgery for essential tremor and tremor-dominant Parkinson's disease.
• In 2025, we expanded our comprehensive epilepsy program and launched new programs for headache medicine and multiple sclerosis.
• We offer care from four epileptologists at our Level 4 Epilepsy center.
• We launched our Comprehensive Cerebrovascular Clinic, a collaboration between AHBSI's neurosurgery, neurointerventional surgery and vascular neurology teams who meet regularly and discuss patient cases to determine the best treatment plans.
• Through our TeleStroke program, more than 35 of our regional hospitals provide the same level of specialty care as Allina Health's stroke centers of excellence. The program also provides protocols for rapidly transferring patients to Comprehensive Stroke Centers.
• We developed a brain tumor survivorship group.
• We have one of the largest and most accomplished neurosurgery practices in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest.
• We offer Level II trauma coverage and neuro ICU.
• Patients from nearly all 50 states benefit from our spine program, thanks to the partnership between Allina Health neurosurgeons and Twin Cities Spine Center.
• We collaborate with an interdisciplinary team of specialists across the Allina Health system — including oncologists, physical therapists, occupational therapists and technical staff — so patients receive the precise care their complex condition requires.
• We consider treatment and support from the psychological to the physical, philosophical to tactical, integrative to traditional surgical techniques.

We saw more than 116,051 hospital visits for neurological and spine care and treated more than 2,500 strokes in 2024 alone. Each year, our neurology team performs more than 2,000 major neurological surgeries and 1,000 neurointerventional procedures.

Our highly trained specialist team includes:

• 35 neurologists (across three Twin Cities metro area hospitals)
• 15 neurosurgeons (across three Twin Cities metro area hospitals)
• 17 orthopedic spine surgeons (across three Twin Cities metro area hospitals)
• 4 neurointerventional surgeons
• 21 neurocritical care specialists
• 3 intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring specialists
• 12 non-surgical pain/spine specialists
• More than 75 advanced practice providers

Harnessing the power of technology helps diagnose patients more accurately and treat symptoms more effectively, improving daily lives and speeding recovery from procedures and surgeries. By combining these tools with our expert minds at our accredited facilities, we've built — and will keep building — a comprehensive neuroscience resource for top-ranked care and trustworthy information.

Technological enhancements include:

• deep brain stimulation (neurology)
• focused ultrasound (neurology)
• intraoperative MRI
• linear accelerator
• magnetic source imaging and magnetoencephalography
• navigation systems
• neurointerventional surgery
• Telestroke
• Varian trilogy

Together with our partners at Twin Cities Spine Center, we work to resolve the pain in your neck or back. From discs to vertebrae, muscles to nerves, arthritis to stenosis, we look at your complex spine and its condition and develop a treatment plant and support that addresses your symptoms. This could include anything from acupuncture to physical therapy to interventional spine procedures.

We take a conservative approach first and avoid surgery, if possible, but if you need it, we'll connect you to the best surgeons available.

Learn more about spine care.

The advancement of neurology depends on rigorously training tomorrow's neurologists.

Our neurology residency program offers a rich, diverse experience that prepares residents for practicing specialized medicine with excellence in patient care, a devotion to lifelong learning and stellar leadership.

In partnership with Twin Cities Spine Center, we host one of the nation's longest-running spine fellowships in the country to train tomorrow's highly specialized spine surgeons.