Maxwell Boakye MD

Maxwell Boakye, M.D., MPH, MBA, is a board-certified neurological surgery physician with UofL Physicians (Neurosurgery) and a Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) and a Fellow of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (FAANS). Dr. Boakye’s clinical focus includes minimally invasive and complex spine surgery, robotic techniques, and spinal radiosurgery, with additional expertise in spinal neuro-oncology. His advanced post-residency training includes complex spinal surgery at Emory and spinal neuro-oncology training at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. As a neurosurgeon-scientist, Dr. Boakye leads the Neurosurgical Outcomes & Translational Research (NOTR) laboratory and serves as the Ole A., Mabel Wise & Wilma Wise Nelson Endowed Research Chair in the Center for Advanced Neurosurgery. His research centers on sensorimotor physiology and neuroplasticity following spinal cord and brain injury, with an emphasis on developing surrogate markers of recovery, prognostication methods, and therapies through translational outcomes research and neurophysiology and neuroimaging approaches. He previously held academic and research leadership roles at Stanford University Medical Center.