About Dr. Dare
Amos O. Dare, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Board certified neurosurgeon and spine surgeon, trained at Yale, SUNY Buffalo and MD Anderson, and practicing in Florida since 2004.
Dr. Dare specializes in spinal trauma and surgery of the spine. He manages spinal injuries at every level, both non-surgically and surgically, and is an experienced minimally invasive spine surgeon.
After graduating Phi Beta Kappa in chemistry from Knox College, Dr. Dare earned his medical degree at the Yale School of Medicine, with thesis honors from the Department of Surgery and a Howard Hughes Medical Research Fellowship. He completed a general surgery internship at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, residency in neurological surgery at the University at Buffalo, and a fellowship in neurosurgical oncology (brain, spine and skull base tumors) at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
He is certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery and has been a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons since 2010. In Florida he founded Palm Beach Brain & Spine, served as Medical Director of Neurosurgery at Wellington Regional Hospital, and was Medical Director of the Neurosurgery & Orthopedic Institute of Florida in Boca Raton.
Dr. Dare is also the author of Medical Conservatism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2024) and the founder of MedMatch Network.
Education & training
A foundation in academic neurosurgery.
- 2003–2004Fellowship, Neurosurgical OncologyBrain, spine and skull base tumors · MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
- 1998–2003Residency, Neurological SurgeryUniversity at Buffalo, State University of New York
- 1997–1998Internship, General SurgeryLenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY
- 1997Doctor of MedicineYale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
- 1990B.A., ChemistryKnox College, Galesburg, IL · Phi Beta Kappa
Certification & licensure
- American Board of Neurological Surgery: board certified 2008, recertified 2018
- Fellow, American College of Surgeons (2010)
- Licensed in Florida, New York and New Jersey
Hospital affiliations
- Larkin Community Hospital, South Miami
- Delray Medical Center, Delray Beach
- Good Samaritan Medical Center, West Palm Beach
Professional societies
- American Association of Neurological Surgeons
- American College of Surgeons
- Florida Medical Association
- American Medical Association
Selected publications
- Dare AO, Sawaya R. Surgical treatment of brain metastases. Clinical Neurosurgery 51:255–63, 2004.
- Dare AO, Balos LL, Grand W. The neural-dural transition at the medial anterior cranial base. J Neurosurg 99:362–5, 2003.
- Dare AO, Dias MS, Li V. Magnetic resonance imaging correlation in pediatric spinal cord injury without radiographic abnormality. J Neurosurg (Spine 1) 97:27–33, 2002.
- Dare AO, Landi MK, Lopes DK, Grand W. Eyebrow incision for combined orbital osteotomy and supraorbital minicraniotomy. J Neurosurg 95:714–8, 2001.
- Dare AO, Balos LL, Grand W. Olfaction preservation in anterior skull base approaches. Neurosurgery 48:1142–6, 2001.
- Dare AO. Medical Conservatism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. 2024.
Talk with Dr. Dare about your spine.
New patients and physician referrals welcome in Miami and Pembroke Pines.