Rob D. Dickerman, DO, PhD, is a neurosurgeon who runs his own practice, North Texas Brain and Spine Institute, based in Plano. He serves as director of neurosurgery at Presbyterian Hospital of Plano. He is also a clinical associate professor of neurosurgery at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth.
Dr. Dickerman is a member of the National Brain Tumor Foundation, Cervical Spine Research Society, American Spinal Cord Injury Association and American Osteopathic Association. He has served on the North American Spine Society committee for continuing education. In 2004, he won the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons National Achievement Award.
Dr. Dickerman is certified in neurological surgery through the American Osteopathic Board of Surgery. His research interests include spine biomechanics, neurophysiology of pain and treatment options, biochemistry of bone fusion and postoperative metabolism and spinal cord injury and closed-head injury.
Dr. Dickerman earned his doctor of osteopathic medicine degree at University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth. He completed his residency at North Shore University-Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York. He has also completed a neurosurgery fellowship at The National Institutes of Health as well as a spine fellowship at the Texas Back Institute in Plano.
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