Dr. Horn received his medical degree and research doctorate in Neuroscience in 2000 from the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois College of Medicine.  He completed his neurosurgical residency at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona under the direction of Dr. Robert Spetzler. He completed subspecialty fellowship training in spinal neurosurgery and spinal trauma under Drs. Volker Sonntag and Nicholas Theodore in 2006.

Dr. Horn is keenly interested in treating the full spectrum of spinal disorders, including degenerative diseases, primary and metastatic tumors of the spinal column, intra- and extramedullary spinal cord tumors and all types of acute and chronic spinal cord injuries.  He is experienced in both anterior and posterior complex spinal instrumentation from the craniocervical junction to the lumbrosacral junction.  Additionally, he has received fellowship training in minimally invasive spinal techniques including percutaneous instrumentation and computer-assisted, image-guided stereotactic spinal neurosurgery.

His research interests include spinal biomechanics in degenerative and traumatic spinal diseases, molecular treatments for spinal cord injuries and minimally invasive technology in spinal neurosurgery.  He has published extensively in peer-reviewed scientific and clinical journals the results of this research and actively investigates these topics.

Dr. Horn complements the Department of Neurosurgery with fellowship-trained expertise in all aspects of complex spinal neurosurgery.  Moreover, he will coordinate the care of patients with spinal disorders as the Director of Spinal Neurosurgery.