Board-certified neurosurgeon in Royal Oak, Michigan.
Daniel K. Fahim, M.D.Atlas Spine & BrainRequest Appointment

Board-certified neurosurgeon in Royal Oak, Michigan

Atlas Spine & Brain

Board-certified neurosurgeon Daniel K. Fahim, M.D. provides advanced brain and spine care in Royal Oak, Michigan.

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2011Serving patients in Southeast Michigan since
40+Peer-reviewed publications and scholarly projects
2014Named to Hour Detroit Top Docs every year since
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Practice overview

Atlas Spine & Brain

  • Board-certified neurosurgeon serving Southeast Michigan since 2011
  • Specializes in brain tumors, spine tumors, minimally invasive spine surgery, and complex reconstruction
  • Professor of Neurosurgery and director of brain and spine tumor programs

Featured video

Introductory patient video

Services

Most common conditions treated.

Brain, neck, and back conditions treated in the practice.

Brain

Focused treatment of tumors, hydrocephalus, cranial nerve pain, and complex cranial pathology.

  • Brain tumors
  • Metastatic disease
  • Meningiomas and astrocytomas
  • Glioblastoma
  • Normal pressure hydrocephalus
  • Trigeminal neuralgia
  • Chiari malformation
  • Skull tumors
  • Arteriovenous malformations

Neck

Surgical and non-surgical management of cervical spine disease, compression, instability, and tumors.

  • Cervical disc herniations
  • Degenerative disc disease
  • Cervical stenosis and spondylosis
  • Cervical radiculopathy
  • Tumors of the cervical spine
  • Fractures

Back

Treatment for lumbar and thoracic conditions, metastatic disease, deformity, and minimally invasive pathways.

  • Lumbar disc herniations
  • Lumbar stenosis
  • Sciatica
  • Spondylolisthesis
  • Compression fractures
  • Thoracic disc herniations
  • Tumors in the spine
  • Tumors in the spinal cord

About Dr. Fahim

Board-certified neurosurgeon serving Southeast Michigan since 2011

Dr. Fahim specializes in the treatment of brain and spine tumors, minimally invasive spine surgery, general neurosurgery, and complex spine surgery and reconstruction.

Daniel K. Fahim, M.D. is a board-certified neurosurgeon who has served Southeast Michigan patients since 2011. He specializes in the treatment of brain and spine tumors and minimally invasive spine surgery, and he also provides general neurosurgery services and complex spine surgery and reconstruction.

Dr. Fahim is an award-winning clinician and researcher with more than forty peer-reviewed publications and ongoing research projects in minimally invasive spine surgery, complex spinal reconstruction, safe management of brain tumors in highly functional areas, and complication avoidance in spine surgery.

He lectures and presents his research nationally and internationally and serves in leadership roles across clinical care, research, and neurosurgical education.

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Patient care, research, and teaching.

Clinical care

Patient Care

Operations performed, program development, patient safety, patient education, and clinical milestones.

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Research

Research

Research topics including spine oncology, brain oncology, novel surgical techniques, minimally invasive spine surgery, patient safety, trauma, and laboratory-based work.

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Education

Teaching

Teaching activities involving residents, medical students, physician colleagues, tumor boards, and patient education.

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Selected content

Featured pages from the practice.

Podcast

Dr. Fahim discusses spine care with Dr. Lewerenz on The Deep Six podcast

Podcast episode featuring a discussion of spine care.

Podcast artwork

Office video

Practice introduction

Leadership roles

Roles and awards

Roles

  • Neurosurgeon, Atlas Spine & Brain
  • Director of Spine Tumor Program, Corewell Health East / Beaumont
  • Director of Brain Tumor Program, Corewell Health East / Beaumont
  • Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine

Recognitions

  • Named one of the top 150 spine surgeons in America by Newsweek
  • Hour Detroit Top Docs every year since 2014
  • Named as a Spine Surgeon to Know in Becker's Spine Review

Publications

Selected publications

  • Transtubular microendoscopic approach for resection of a choroidal arteriovenous malformation
  • Avoiding abdominal flank bulge after anterolateral approaches to the thoracolumbar spine
  • Orthotopic murine model of a primary malignant bone tumor in the spine
  • Definitive single-stage posterior correction of traumatic spondyloptosis at the thoracolumbar junction

Education and training

Training and professional background

Medical education

  • University of Michigan Medical School, M.D. with Honors
  • Dean's Merit Scholarship

Undergraduate education

  • Princeton University
  • Harvard University

Neurosurgery training

  • MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery
  • St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital Neuroscience Center
  • Ben Taub General Hospital
  • Michael E. DeBakey VA Hospital
  • Texas Children's Hospital
  • Methodist Neurological Institute

Announcements

Announcements

  • Named one of the top 150 spine surgeons in America by Newsweek.
  • Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine.
  • Selected by peers for the Hour Detroit Top Docs Award.
  • Presented research on spine surgery in patients over 85 at the European Association of Neurological Surgeons in Vienna.
  • Published work comparing outcomes of minimally invasive spine surgery and open spine surgery.
  • Co-authored a Journal of Neurosurgery article on complex scalp tumors.
  • Published research on improving outcomes in breast cancer patients with spine metastases.
  • Serves on the IntechOpen editorial board for neurooncology.

Video library

Educational videos.

Spine Intro Video

Introduction to spine care.

Spine Surgical Approaches Overview

Overview of spine surgical approaches.

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