Brain & Spine growth fuels neurology boom in Amherst - Business First of Buffalo:

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The medical practice headed byneurosurgeon Dr. Michael Landi occupiesx 21,000 square feet of a new buildinfg at 400 International around the corner from his original offices at 325Essjay Drive. Landi began practicing solo seven years ago but has built his practice to addressz a variety of services that can be needed by patients with braib andspine conditions. The new facility makes room for what has becomda multi-specialty, 65-person practice including neurologists, rheumatologists, physiatristsz and complementary services such as chiropractidc and medical spa offerings.
The $8 million buildingg was developed in equal partnership withthe ; Landij has added about $1 million in upgraded medical equipmen and specialized electronic medical record s systems. Landi's practice is occupying the second floor, encompassiny just half of the new The first flooris unfinished, waitiny for state go-ahead for the Catholic Health System to establish a suite of imaging services The new practice site is within a few minutes' drive down Sheridan Drive from the Dent Tower Medica Center, home to , a 15-physiciamn neurology practice, and the future, expanded offices of Buffalo neurosurgeon Dr. L. Nelson Hopkins.
Hopkins already leaseds space in the Dent Towedr and plans to add clinical and research components in spined care ina $6 million building to go up next door. Neurosurgergy will occupy one floor; imaging and other Dent Institute services will be housed inthe other. The building and the Dent Towedr are planned to be connected by acovereds walkway. The multimillion-dollar building boom has more to do with meetin demand for services than competitors vyingfor patients, according to Landi and Jeffrey Dann, executive director of the Dent The typical population base per neurosurgeohn in a community should be about 70,000-to-1. In Westerbn New York, the ratio is closef to 100,000-to-1, Landi said.
Dann said the Dent groupl plans to recruit six physicians during the next18 months. Hopkins has said that his Amherst office is making expansion in that location a He has developed an international reputation in stroke care and spearheadingnew technologies, including the use of stents to repairf blockages in the brain. He is chairman of the University at Buffalio Neurosurgery Departmentand co-director of the at the university. He also is clinicalo chief of neurosurgery atKaleida Health.
He is basedf at , home to the region's first comprehensivse stroke care center and a Hopkinspet Landi's new facility is the flagshiop of a larger organization that includes officese in Orchard Park, Niagara Falls, Lockport, Fredoniqa and Irving. New offices are under constructionin Dr. Landi is board-certified in neurologicao surgery and serves as chief of neurological surgeryat .