Chad D. Abernathey MD

A Mayo Clinic-trained neurosurgeon — residency 1983–1989 — with a statewide reputation in cervical spine surgery built over more than three decades at Cedar Neurological Surgeons in Cedar Rapids. Patients seek him out for a meticulous technique that often has them home within hours, and he believes in operating only when it's necessary — his words, on the record. Co-investigator in the FDA trial of the Prestige LP artificial cervical disc. His research years produced publications in Neurosurgery and the Journal of Neurosurgery on stereotactic microsurgery — including work co-authored with M. Gazi Yaşargil, the most celebrated neurosurgeon of the modern era.