Overview
John Knightly, a long-standing member of the medical staffs at Morristown Memorial Medical Center and Overlook Medical Center, is a practicing neurosurgeon with 30 years of experience and a subspecialty interest in minimally invasive and complex spine surgery. He is the Past-President, Atlantic Neurosurgical Specialists and Altair Health as well as Chief of Quality, Atlantic Neuroscience Institute. He currently serves as the Vice President of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) as well as Chairman of the Neurosurgical Quality Council of the AANS/CNS Washington Committee.
A multi-timed named Castle Connelly Top-Doctor recipient, both regionally and nationally, his other areas of specialty interest and research include health care policy, outcomes and registry science, and quality improvement on which he has published extensively. He has served as Chair of the Joint Section on Disorders of Spine and Peripheral Nerves for the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS)/Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) as well as chair of the of the Quality Improvement Workforce of the AANS/CNS and the AANS representative to the AANS/CNS Washington Committee. Dr Knightly has also served as an unaffiliated neurosurgical consultant for the NFL.
On a national basis, Dr Knightly is a Past Chairman, Board of Directors, for NeuroPoint Alliance and was appointed a founding member of the executive committee of the newly created American Spinal Registry (ASR) on which he still serves. He is a former Vice-Chairman and Director on the American Board of Neurological Surgeons (ABNS) and has had appointments on several committees within the AANS, American College of Surgeons as well as the National Quality Forum.
Dr Knightly’s primary passion is the care of his patients, maximizing the care he gives to his patients striving to perform the right care, for the right patient at the right time.
Dr. Knightly is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Spinal Fusion. His top areas of expertise are Spondylolisthesis, Cervical Myelopathy, Cervical Spondylosis, Laminectomy, and Spinal Fusion.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 103 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 29 articles in the study of Spinal Fusion.
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Locations
197 Ridgedale Ave, Suite 225, Hanover, NJ 07927
Additional Areas of Focus
Dr. Knightly has provided the following conditions as areas of focus. Please note that we may not have enough data to validate their experience in some of these conditions.
Clinical Research
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Areas of Expertise
MediFind evaluates expertise by pulling from factors such as number of articles a doctor has published in medical journals, participation in clinical trials, speaking at industry conferences, prescribing and referral patterns, and strength of connections with other experts in their field.
Learn more about MediFind’s expert tiers
- Elite
- Cervical MyelopathyDr. Knightly isElite. Learn about Cervical Myelopathy.
- Cervical SpondylosisDr. Knightly isElite. Learn about Cervical Spondylosis.
- SpondylolisthesisDr. Knightly isElite. Learn about Spondylolisthesis.
- Distinguished
- KyphosisDr. Knightly isDistinguished. Learn about Kyphosis.
- LaminectomyDr. Knightly isDistinguished. Learn about Laminectomy.
- Spinal StenosisDr. Knightly isDistinguished. Learn about Spinal Stenosis.
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- Ankylosing Vertebral Hyperostosis with Tylosis
- Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis
- Frontonasal Dysplasia Klippel Feil Syndrome
- Herniated DiskDr. Knightly isAdvanced. Learn about Herniated Disk.
- Invertebral Disc DiseaseDr. Knightly isAdvanced. Learn about Invertebral Disc Disease.
- ScoliosisDr. Knightly isAdvanced. Learn about Scoliosis.
- Experienced
- Acute PainDr. Knightly isExperienced. Learn about Acute Pain.
- Brachial PlexopathyDr. Knightly isExperienced. Learn about Brachial Plexopathy.
- Cervical Disc SurgeryDr. Knightly isExperienced. Learn about Cervical Disc Surgery.
- DiskitisDr. Knightly isExperienced. Learn about Diskitis.
- Foot DropDr. Knightly isExperienced. Learn about Foot Drop.
- Fractured SpineDr. Knightly isExperienced. Learn about Fractured Spine.