Frank Dimitrios Vrionis, MD

Description

Frank Vrionis, M.D., is a neurosurgeon and the chief of neurosurgery at Marcus Neuroscience Institute, a part of Baptist Health. Dr. Vrionis specializes in treating brain, skull base and spine tumors. He has extensive experience in minimally invasive spine surgery, brain tumor surgery, skull base surgery, vascular neurosurgery and poliovirus treatment of brain tumors. Prior to joining Marcus Neuroscience Institute in 2016, Dr. Vrionis spent 17 years at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center. Active in research, Dr. Vrionis described for the first time the presence of cancer stem cells in malignant brain tumors and established through a clinical trial the role of vertebroplasty for spine fractures in cancer patients. Dr. Vrionis serves as a professor of surgery at the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University. Dr. Vrionis’ approach to patient care is to treat each patient with love and respect, as he would a member of his own family. When he is not treating patients, he enjoys spending time in nature, farming, traveling, reading about philosophy and skiing.