John J. Knightly, M.D.

Dr. John Knightly received his Bachelor of Arts from Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and his M.D. from University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey in Newark, New Jersey. His post-graduate training and his residency training were completed at the Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland. He completed a research fellowship in the surgical neurology branch at the National Institutes of Health and in pediatric neurosurgery at The Children’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He also completed advanced training in trauma at the Shock-Trauma Center in Baltimore. In addition, he completed a Fellowship in Complex Spine with Dr. Volker Sonntag at The Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Knightly achieved Board Certification in 1998, from the American Board of Neurological Surgeons.

Dr. Knightly’s areas of clinical interest include: Complex Spine Surgery; Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery; Stereotactic Radiosurgery; Tumors of the Spine; Endoscopic Neurosurgery and Trauma. He is a member of the North American Spine Society as well as a member of the Joint Section of Spine and Peripheral Nerve: American Association of Neurological Surgeons / Congress of Neurological Surgeons. Dr. Knightly is a frequent lecturer for Spinal Instrumentation. He has written and published many articles which detail complex spine management.