Dr. Christopher M. Boxell attended the University of
Central Oklahoma on a football scholarship after growing up in Odessa,
Texas, home of "Friday Night Lights". He graduated Summa Cum Laude, was
a four year starter for the football team, member of two national
scholastic honor societies and twice recognized in "Who's Who in
Americas Colleges and Universities." He received his medical degree from the University of
Oklahoma College of Medicine.
His Internal Medicine internship was completed at the University of
Oklahoma Health Science Center and his surgical internship was completed
at the University of Missouri. He also completed his neurosurgical
residency at the University of Missouri Hospital and Clinics in
Columbia, Missouri.
Dr. Boxell completed a Fellowship in Spinal Surgery at Southwest Texas
Methodist Hospital and the South Texas Spinal Clinic in San Antonio,
Texas. At St. John Medical Center, Dr. Boxell served as the Chairman of
the Neurosciences Section in 2004 through 2005.
Dr. Boxell is a Clinical Assistant Professor for the Department of
Neurosurgery at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Tulsa
where he previously taught and lectured to medical students, residents, and other
physicians.
Dr. Boxell's areas of special interest include:
•Spinal pain and the appropriate management of such, whether by
conservative or surgical means
•All manner of surgical diseases of the spine, and peripheral
nerves.
Dr. Boxell has been trained in the use of the operating microscope,
sterotactic brain and spine surgery, endoscopic spinal surgery, and
minimally invasive spinal surgery. Dr. Boxell was the first neurological trained
spinal surgeon to practice in Tulsa and and Northeast Oklahoma. He was
the first neurosurgeon to perform instrumented spinal fusion of the
thoracic and lumbar spine for the treatment of degenerative disc
disease,traumatic fractures, and tumors of the spine. He performed the first screw fixation of the
odontoid to treat a fracture/dislocation. He was the first neurosurgeon in
Tulsa and Northeast Oklahoma to routinely perform spinal instrumentation
of the cervical spine and multi-level corpectomies for a variety of
spinal disorders.
Dr. Boxell is a member of the American Medical Association, Oklahoma
State Medical Association, Tulsa County Medical Society, the North
American Spine Society, and the American Association of Neurological
Surgeons. He has conducted clinical outcome studies in this region of the state.
He has staff privileges at St John Medical Center, Southcrest Medical
Center, and Tulsa Spine and Specialty Hospital.
