John J. Knightly MD

Dr. John Knightly received his Bachelor of Arts from Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania and his MD from The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark, New Jersey. His post-graduate training and residency training were completed at the Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Knightly completed a research fellowship in the surgical neurology branch of the National Institutes of Health and in pediatric neurosurgery at The Children’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He completed advanced training in trauma at the Shock-Trauma Center in Baltimore, Maryland.

In addition, Dr. Knightly completed a Fellowship in Complex Spine with Dr. Volker Sonntag at The Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. He achieved Board Certification in 1998 from the American Board of Neurological Surgeons.

Dr. Knightly has been a leading proponent and developer of minimally invasive spinal surgical techniques. In addition to his clinical expertise in spine surgery, he also has a strong interest in neurotrauma. He is a co-founder and director of the Concussion Center at the Atlantic Neuroscience Institute.