SCOTT SCHLESINGER and DOMINIC MAGGIO

Scott Schlesinger, MD, founded Legacy Spine & Neurological Specialists along with former partners Ray Jouett, MD, and Ronald Williams, MD, two pioneers of neurological surgery. Today, Schlesinger and fellow surgeon Dominic Maggio, MD, continue to set the standard in Arkansas for specialized and comprehensive care of the brain, spine and peripheral nerves.

An Arkansas native with decades of experience, Schlesinger specializes in minimally invasive spine surgery. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock. After his neurosurgery residency and general surgery internship at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Dallas, Schlesinger went on to complete a fellowship at Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is certified with the American Board of Neurological Surgery and is nationally renowned as the co-developer of one of today’s most advanced micro-spine surgeries, the VariLift procedure.

Maggio is a Miami, Fla., native, where he attended high school, college, business school and medical school before completing his neurosurgery residency at the University of Virginia-National Institutes of Health. He went on to complete a fellowship in comprehensive spine surgery at Ohio State Wexner Medical Center before moving to Little Rock. Maggio has published more than 30 scientific papers and has won numerous national awards. He performs innovative, first-in-Arkansas surgical techniques such as si joint fusions, cervical- and lumbar-artificial disc replacements. His memberships include the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and the American Medical Association.

Maggio and Schlesinger lead the nation in the development and advancement of computer and image-guided micro spine surgery. The pair delivers life-changing, minimally invasive neurosurgical care at one of the most established practices in the state, with a combined 80 years of experience providing highly-conservative neurological care.