Scott Blumenthal, DO
Medical Director of Neurosciences

Dr. Scott Blumenthal has been affiliated with South Florida Neurology Associates since 2004. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Biopsychology from the University of Michigan in 1993. He received his medical degree from Des Moines University in 1999. Dr. Blumenthal went on to complete an internship at Thomas Jefferson University, Frankford Hospital. He completed his Neurology residency and was chief resident at Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed a fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology with emphasis in EMG and neuromuscular diseases also at Montefiore Medical Center.

Dr. Blumenthal is Board Certified by both the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine (EMG). He is affiliated with the American Academy of Neurology, the American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine and the American Heart Association. He has served on both the Medical Executive Committee and currently the Peer Review Committee at Delray Medical Center.

Dr. Blumenthal treats the entire spectrum of neurological disorders but special interests include Acute Stroke therapies, EMG/neuromuscular disorders, Parkinson's Disease and Dementia. He has extensive experience with the use of Botox for neurological disorders and with deep brain stimulation evaluation and programming for Parkinson's disease and essential tremor.

Lloyd Zucker, MD
Medical Director of Neurosurgery

Dr. Zucker also serves as Chair of the Department of Surgery at Delray, Chief of Neuro-Trauma, a member of the Surgical Peer Review Committee and a member of the Trauma Quality Improvement Committee. He has been a member of the medical staff since 1994.

As a board-certified neurosurgeon, Dr. Zucker diagnoses and treats all aspects of neurologic illness of the brain and spine. Throughout his career he has championed bringing the newest state-of-the-art technologies to Delray Medical Center. Utilizing technology from Synaptive Medical and NICO Neuro’s Brainpath he performs minimally-invasive craniotomies, accessing deep lesions within the brain previously thought to be inoperable.

Dr. Zucker sub-specializes in a variety of neurological areas including radiosurgery, neuro-oncology and stereotactic procedures. He leads clinical trials in the treatment of brain tumors including fluorescent-guided surgery for gliomas and trials involving traumatic injury to the brain and spinal cord.

He is co-director of the movement disorder program at Delray Medical Center, performing Deep Brain Stimulation surgery for the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease and Essential Tremor. As part of the program he is a regional leader in the use of focused ultrasound and continues to expand the field into other novel applications.

With a fellowship in complex spinal surgery and spinal instrumentation he cares for diseases of all areas of the spine - cervical, thoracic and lumbar.

Dr. Zucker is a Diplomate of the American Board of Neurological Surgery. He is an active member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the North American Spine Society and is a member of the Subcortical Surgery Group.

He has contributed to research in the fields of neuro-trauma and neuro-oncology. As an assistant affiliate professor at the Charles E Schmidt School of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University, he contributes to the teaching of medical students, interns and surgical residents. Dr. Zucker has presented extensively to other physicians on minimally-invasive spine surgery, treatment of brain tumors and many other topics. In addition, Dr. Zucker regularly attends national meetings and symposiums focused on the latest techniques for treating complex disorders of the brain and spine.

A graduate with honors of the prestigious Johns Hopkins University, he was invited as an undergraduate to do research at the National Institute of Health. His medical training at Rutgers University/ University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey was followed by a neurosurgical residency at the University of Connecticut/ Hartford Hospital. His extended training was completed by a fellowship in complex spinal surgery at the University of South Florida/ Tampa General Hospital.

Nils Mueller-Kronast, MD
Neurointerventional Director

Dr. Nils Mueller-Kronast earned his Doctor of Medicine at Stadt Krankenhaus Harlaching, Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany. He then completed his Residency, Internship and Vascular/Interventional Neurology Fellowship at Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami in Miami, Florida. Dr. Mueller-Kronast completed an additional Fellowship at Stadt Krankenhaus Harlaching, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich, Germany in Stroke and Neurocritical Care. His areas of special interests include Intra-artierial stroke treatment and management of traumatic injury to the cervical and cerebral vessels. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Neurology and the American Board of Vascular Neurology.