Mick J. Perez-Cruet, MD, is a neurosurgeon at the Michigan Head & Spine Institute in Southfield, MI. He is also Chief of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery at Beaumont Hospitals. Furthermore, Dr. Perez-Cruet is Vice Chairman, Director and Professor of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and the Spine Program at Oakland University, William Beaumont School of Medicine in Rochester, MI.
Yet Mick is also a research scientist and inventor, bringing his out of the box thinking to the field of minimally invasive surgery. His day to day practice in the operating room reveals many deficiencies in standardized equipment made available to surgeons. It is his vision to expand the implementation of minimally invasive spine surgery techniques and products to improve patient outcomes and reduce or eliminate their suffering through innovation.
Dr. Perez-Cruet attended undergraduate training at Grinnell College in Iowa. He received a master’s degree in chemistry from the University of South Florida. His medical degree from Tufts University in Boston was achieved under a US Air Force Scholarship. He completed a general surgery internship and a neurological surgery residency at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He was Vice-Chairman and Major in the Department of Neurosurgery at Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas where he was the spine surgeon expert for the Department of Defense. He then completed a fellowship in minimally invasive spinal surgery at Rush University in Chicago.
In addition to his medical practice, Dr. Perez-Cruet holds a variety of professional positions within such prestigious organizations as the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), Lumbar Spine Research Society, North American Spine Society, Society of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgeons, and Council of State Neurosurgical Societies (CSNS). He is the president and founder of the Minimally Invasive Neurological Society (MINS).