New faculty spotlight: Miki Katzir, MD

Miki Katzir, MD, is a new faculty member at UNMC.

• Name: Miki Katzir, MD
• Hometown: Omaha
• Title and department at UNMC: Assistant professor, UNMC Department of Neurosurgery

Research/professional interests:

• Benign and malignant spinal cancers
• Primary tumors of the spine
• Metastatic tumors of the spine
• Spinal cord tumors
• Back pain
• Sciatica
• Spinal stenosis
• Herniated disc
• MIOSS – Minimally Invasive Oncological Spine Surgery
• Vertebroplasty – Cement augmentation of fractured vertebrae

How I fell in love with medicine and cancer care: I fell in love with medicine because my parents and grandparents were in medicine, and I heard stories about how my mom and dad helped people.

I fell in love with cancer care because I felt I could specialize and help many people by treating rare diseases, often when they felt nobody else would be there.

Education:

• MD, University of Debrecen, Hungary, 2010
• Internship, Edith Wolfson Medical Center, 2011
• Residency, neurosurgery, Rambam Maimonides Health Care Campus, 2018
• Fellowship, minimally invasive and complex spine surgery, University of Washington Harborview Medical Center, 2019
• Fellowship, oncology and complex spine surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, 2020

Memberships:

• Midwest Neurosurgical Association

Three things people may not know about me:

• I love to snowboard. I am lucky to say that I have snowboarded in the Alps.
  
• I am a proud husband and a father of two boys and a girl.

• I am originally from Israel and served three years in the military.

Clinic location:

• Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
• Neurosurgery Clinic at Clarkson Doctors North