Tyrone L. Hardy, MD, MSC,FACS, FICS

Dr. Tyrone L. Hardy is a Board-Certified neurosurgeon. Dr. Hardy received his medical school training at Howard University, where he graduated with honors and is a lifetime member of the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Medical Society and the Jacobi Society for scholastic achievement in Pediatrics. He is a United States Steel Award Scholar and a recipient of the Joseph L. Johnson Award in Physiology. Dr. Hardy did an internship at the Royal Victoria Hospital of McGill University. He was trained in neurosurgery at the world-renowned Montreal Neurological Institute, where he studied with many of the pioneers in neurosurgery, including specialists in microsurgery, stereotactic surgery, vascular, orthopedic and epilepsy surgery, and surgery for movement disorders. Dr. Hardy also has a Masters degree in experimental neurology and neurosurgery from McGill University, which was obtained as National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS/NIH) Fellow. He went on to become a Clinical Research Fellow and Associate at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where he expanded his studies in epilepsy and vascular surgery, and surgery for movement disorders. He received training in microneurosurgery at the Vermont Medical Center and the University of Florida, and laser surgery training at the University of Southern California. Dr. Hardy is a certified GAMMA Knife surgeon, for which he received training at the Karolinska Gamma Knife Center in Stockholm, Sweden. He studied Fortran and C computer programming and computer hardware design.

Dr. Hardy is a former member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, Canada, and was on staff at the University of New Mexico, and the Lovelace Medical Center and Research Foundation, where he pioneered techniques in computerized imaging and brain mapping for stereotactic neurosurgery. He received the Lovelace Medical Center Staff Research Award and he holds 11 patents, and a number of copyrights, in the United States and Canada for his developments in these areas of brain surgery. He is the recipient of numerous awards and professional appointments and is also the recipient of the New Mexico Inventor of the Year Award (1994). Dr. Hardy is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the International College of Surgeons. He is currently an Associate Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Hardy continues to actively publish in scientific journals and produce book chapters for research, development and training in the neurosciences. He is a regular presenter of various topics in neurosurgery at national and international meetings. Dr. Hardy practices neurosurgery and spine surgery in San Diego at Scripps Memorial Hospital and Gamma Knife Center, Alvarado Hospital Medical Center and Sharp/Grossmont Hospitals. Dr Hardy is the founding director of S.D.N.D.S.

Office Address:
5565 Grossmont Center Drive, Bldg. 1, Suite 119
La Mesa, CA 91942

Office telephone: (619) 464-3153
Fax: (619) 464-3429