Jean-Pierre Mobasser, MD, obtained his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia and completed his residency in neurosurgery and fellowship in complex and minimally invasive spine surgery at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Mobasser moved to Indiana to practice with the former Indianapolis Neurosurgical Group (ING), the predecessor to Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine. Dr. Mobasser is board certified by the North American Board of Neurological Surgery and is a member of the Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and the Indiana Neurological Society.
“Spinal stenosis doesn’t really cause back pain but pain that radiates down into buttocks and lower legs,” says Jean-Pierre Mobasser, a neurosurgeon at St. Vincent Carmel Hospital in Indianapolis. “The narrowing of the spinal canal reduces blood flow to nerves in the lower back.” The pain often diminishes or disappears altogether when a patient is sitting or lying down – unlike a pinched nerve caused by a bulging disk, which may hurt all the time.
Jean-Pierre Mobasser, Robert Hastings and Dillon Mobasser of the Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine Institute (Indianapolis, USA) and Indiana Spine Hospital (Carmel, USA) share their experience of and strategy for peri-surgical opioid management in spinal surgery patients.
At least 18 of Goodman Campbell’s roster of 35 surgeons at the time did opt to become employees of IU Health Physicians, a joint venture between IU Health and the IU School of Medicine. But the rest stayed, determined to keep the practice thriving. And in 2019, Goodman Campbell opened its flagship campus on U.S. 31 in the Meridian Corridor, with a sign highly visible to passing traffic. Dr. Jean-Pierre Mobasser “We exited our divorce from IU, and actually, things have gone well for us since then,” said Dr. Jean-Pierre Mobasser, president of Goodman Campbell.