Hurtis J. Tullos, M.D.

Hurtis J. Tullos, M.D., is a neurosurgeon with INTEGRIS Health Baptist Medical Center.

He graduated medical school from the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. He completed his neurological surgery residency at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and a spine fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, California.

Dr. Tullos' passion is to improve his patients' quality of life with the minimum amount of invasiveness necessary to achieve the desired effect. His goal with every patient is to build rapport while offering advice and insight on their specific disease process and approaching the pathology with team-based decision-making in combination with the patient and family. 

"There is no greater joy than individualizing patient care to meet patients' needs and offering a procedure with minimal amount of invasiveness to achieve the desired outcome. I enjoy helping people. I enjoy advising people. I enjoy making people feel better."

Areas of interest

• Motion Preserving Spinal interventions
• Minimally invasive approaches to the spine
• Degenerative spinal disease
• Spine trauma and fractures
• Cervical and thoracic myelopathy 
• Radiculopathy 
• Lumbar Spondylolisthesis
• Revision spinal surgery
• Traumatic brain injury 
• Carpal tunnel 
• Intradural and Extradural spinal pathology 
• Subdural hematomas
• Chiari malformations
• Intracranial hypertension 
• Intracranial hemorrhage

Dr. Tullos loves to read for both work and leisure. He has a strong interest in philosophy and cooking. He is an avid outdoorsman and martial artist. Dr. Tullos is active in community outreach through the Beta Eta Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.