Mark Mudano, MD

Dr. Tripp Nanney is a board-certified neurosurgeon. He was born and raised in the Carolinas and still has deep ties to the area. He studied medicine at the University of North Carolina, and traveled to Northwestern University in Chicago to specialize in both spine and brain surgery. Dr. Nanney then practiced in Colorado for seven years and now is happy to return home to be of service to his community. He is fluent in Spanish, learned during his travels, to further increase the number of patients he can care for. Dr. Nanney has received awards from nursing staff for compassionate patient care and hopes to continue his holistic approach in caring for neurosurgery patients and families. He is comfortable seeing patients with all neurosurgical disorders of the brain and spine with special interest in brain tumors, aneurysms and vascular malformations, pituitary tumors, neuro-oncology as well as minimally invasive spine, complex spine and deformity surgeries, and spine tumors. He is also interested in surgical technology and advancing Florence's spine and brain navigation systems and emerging robotic technologies for use in the operating room.

Pedro Norat, M.D. is a general and vascular neurosurgeon at MUSC Health Florence Medical Center, where he serves as the Director of the Stroke and Thrombectomy Program. His medical journey began in Brazil, where he attended medical school and completed his neurosurgery residency in 2017 at the renowned Paulo Niemeyer State Brain Institute. He then moved to the United States for advanced training at the University of Virginia, including a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience and a three-year fellowship in endovascular neurosurgery. He cares for patients with conditions such as stroke, brain aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, cavernous malformations, carotid artery stenosis, intracranial stenosis, and brain tumors. His goal is to provide each patient with the most effective, personalized treatment possible. Dr. Norat’s research focuses on ischemic stroke, mitochondrial biology, and neuroimmunology and has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications. He also holds a U.S. patent for a novel stroke therapy.

Dr. Ioannis Karampelas immigrated to the U.S. from Europe years ago and is certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery. He is thankful for his mentors, who have profoundly shaped his professional and human nature. Dr. Karampelas is excited to give back to the people and to the community. In addition to general neurosurgery, he has a particular interest in brain and spinal cord tumors. Dr. Karampelas’ approach is straightforward, saying, “I know how complex and frightening any neurological disease can be. I am here to help you understand what is going on in your body. Together, we can reach the best decision for you. I will share my professional opinion and what I believe is the best course of action after getting to know you as a person. My main focus is you, and I am proud to take full responsibility for you and your medical treatment.” Dr. Karampelas promises to take care of you with compassion and scrupulous attention to detail, using MUSC’s most technologically and scientifically advanced hospital system. “As a physician at MUSC Health Florence Medical Center, I can only be satisfied if I know we did the absolute best for you. Nothing is more important to us than what you feel and that we listened and cared for you.”