Pedro Norat, M.D.

Dr. Curtis Worthington is board certified in Neurological Surgery and has been in Neurosurgical practice for over 30 years. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. Dr. Worthington has special interest in degenerative spine disease and in Neuro-oncology (brain tumors). His experience in the field of Stereotactic Radiosurgery is certainly the most extensive in the state of South Carolina. He was a founding member of the International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society. He has received various awards and citations and has many peer-reviewed publications to his name. Past academic appointments have included Clinical Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology at the Medical University of South Carolina. He has lectured around the world including in India and South Africa and in 2024 will serve in a mission hospital in Kenya.

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.

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.”