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 George F. Cravens, M.D., FACS has specialized in neurosurgery since 1981. With both a tireless and innovative
commitment to research and the development of surgical and medical technology, he has helped to develop and
establish and advance neurological Care in the Fort Worth area. In 1992, he realized his vision of how
cohesive medical care would benefit all patients by founding the Center for Neurological Disorders in Fort
Worth, Texas. In pulling together all the various specialists needed in the treatment of neurological disease,
the Center offers effective, convenient and comprehensive care.
Dr. Cravens was one of the first specialists in the area to use
intraoperative electrodiagnostic testing such
as somatosensory evoked responses, visual evoked responses and brainstem auditory evoked responses to monitor
a patient's neurological functions while under anesthesia during surgical procedures. He was one of the first
in the area to use microneurosurgical techniques and the operating microscope during neurosurgical procedures.
He is one of the few neurosurgeons in north Texas using C02 laser for peripheral nerve surgeries as well as
intracranial and spinal cord procedures. He performed the first neuroendoscopic procedure for the treatment of
cranial lesions in the Fort Worth area in 1992. He was instrumental in bringing the new computer assisted
surgery (Image Guided Stereotactic Surgery) to Fort Worth. This has 3D computer generated images to assist in
performing surgery more accurately and precisely.
Joining 500 volunteer physicians nationwide, Dr. Cravens has taken a leadership role in the Brain Attack
Coalition. This is an unprecedented national professional information and educational program aimed at
shortening the response time for treatment of patients with strokes. The program targets persons of the
health care profession who are most likely come into contact with a stroke victim including family physicians,
emergency physicians, neurologists, neurosurgeons, emergency medical technicians, hospital emergency staff and
9121 personnel.
Dr. Cravens is a diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgery. He is a member of
the American Association of Neurological Surgery and Congress of Neurological Surgeons. He
is also a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and is a member of the American Society
for Laser Medicine and Surgery. He holds memberships in the Society of Joint Section on
Tumors of the AANS/CNS, of the Joint Section n Neurotrauma and the
Critical Care of the AANS/CNS, and is a member of the Society of the Joint Section on
Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves of the AANS/CNS. He is a member of the North
American Spine Society; The Southern Neurosurgical Society; the Rocky Mountain
Neurological Society and the North American Skull Base Society.
Dr. Cravens earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Austin and subsequently attended
medical school at Southwestern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Dallas. He
did his neurosurgical residency at Louisiana State Medical Center, Charity Hospital and Ochsner Foundation in
New Orleans, Louisiana. During his residency, he served as the chief resident of neurological surgery at
University of Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital which is the Regional Trauma Center for all of Ontario, Canada. In
1986, after completion of his residency, he moved to Zurich, Switzerland where he did a fellowship in
microneurosurgery at the Neurochirurgische Klink Universtat Zurich, Switzerland with Professor M. Gazi
Yasargil, M.D. Professor M. Gazi Yasargil most recently was voted Man of the Century in the specialty of
neurosurgery. During his fellowship, he assisted Professor Yasargil in surgical procedures, and participated
in writing and publishing several major articles, instructional videotapes on microsurgery and several books
including Microneurosurgery, Volume 3 A and B, Volume 4 A and B.
PRESENTATIONS
"Posterior Interosseous Nerve Palsies, " Southern Neurosurgical Society, 1986
"Bipolaris Austaliensis Infection Presenting in Intracranial Mass Lesion Following Ethmoid Sinus Surgery,"
Southern Neurosurgical Society, June 1998.
PUBLICATIONS
"Surgical Approaches to `Inaccessible' Brain Tumors," Yasargil, M., Cravens, G.F., Roth, P.
Clinical Neurosurgery, 1986, Vol. 34.
Manuscript Review and Galley proof Corrections of Microsurgery, Yasargil, M., 1987, Vol. III A and IIIB.
"Spinal Cord Compression Due to Intradural Extramedullary Aspergilloma and Cyst: Case Report," Cravens,
G.F. Surgical Neurology, April 1989, Vol. 31, No. 4.
"Posterior Interosseous Nerve Palsies," Cravens, G.F., Kline D.
Neurosurgery, 1990, 27:3, 397402.
Microneurosurgery, CNS Tumors: Yasargil, M., Collaboration: T.E. Adamson, R.J. Johnson, J.D. Reeves,
P.J. Teddy, A. Valavanis, W. Wichmann, A.M. Wild, P.H. Young and G.F. Cravens, 1994, Vol. IV A.
Microneurosurgery, CNS Tumors: Yasargil, M., Collaboration: T.E. Adamson, R.J. Johnson, J.D. Reeves,
P.J. Teddy, A. Valavanis, W. Wichmann, A.M. Wild, P.H. Young and G.F. Cravens, Vol. IV B.
VIDEO CASSETTE PUBLICATIONS
Microneurosurgery, Aneurysms, Tape 1, Yasargil, M., Collaborator, M.V. Reichman. Tape selection and review for
publication, G.F. Cravens, 1987.
>> see the video online
Microsurgery, Aneurysms, Tape II, Yasargil, M., Collaborator, M.V. Reichman. Tape selection and review for
publication, G.F. Cravens, 1987.
>> see the video online
Microneurosurgery, Arteriovenous Malformation, Video Cassette 3, Yasargil, M., Collaborators, C. Abernathy,
G.F. Cravens, 1989.
>> see the video online
Microneurosurgery, Arteriovenous Malformation, Video Cassette 4, Yasargil, M., Collaborators, C. Abernathy,
G.F. Cravens, 1990.
>> see the video online
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