King Wesley, MD

Specialties

Welcome to The Center for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery (CMIN). We strive for excellence and focus on patient care, we are ready to meet all of your Neurosurgical needs.

Our goal is to provide the highest level of surgical care for patients with disorders of the pituitary, brain, skull base, spine and peripheral nerves. Using a multidisciplinary approach as well as state of the art minimally invasive and endoscopic techniques we are able to optimize patient care while decreasing the length of hospitalization and the time for recuperation following surgery. Smaller incisions and «keyhole approaches» result in fewer operative complications. Many of these less invasive techniques were pioneered by our board certified physicians, all of whom are involved in ongoing clinical research and teaching. All physician members of the center are recognized nationally and internationally in their respective specialties.

Conditions Treated:

Pituitary and Neuroendocrine tumors

Trigeminal Neuralgia

Hemifacial Spasm

Skullbase tumors and conditions

Brain Tumors & Meningiomas

Disorder of the spine and peripheral nerves

Chiari Malformation

History

Established in 1990.

Dr. King was born and raised in Los Angeles where he attended Harvard School (now Harvard-​Westlake School). Following High school he matriculated at Harvard University, gaining a degree in Biochemistry with Honors. His medical training was achieved at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.

Following medical school, Dr. King completed his residency in neurosurgery at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles and received advanced fellowship training in Hannover, Germany at one of the preeminent centers for acoustic neuroma, skull base and cranial nerve surgery. He then received a full-​time academic appointment in the Division of Neurosurgery at UCLA where he was a full-​time member of the teaching faculty until 1995 before joining the Department of Neurosurgery at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan New York as Associate Professor. In 2004 he returned home to Los Angeles where he is currently developing The Center for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery. He is a mem