Trinity Health announces the addition of Maria Li, MDCM, MSc, FAANS, a board-certified neurosurgeon to its neurosurgery team. With over 20 years of experience, Li has an abundance of expertise to help patients with brain, spine, and peripheral nerve disorders.

She completed her medical degree and neurosurgery residency, including an enfolded orthopedic spine fellowship, at McGill University, Montreal. She did a post-doctoral laboratory fellowship in neurophysiology at the University of California and completed a clinical fellowship in skull base and cerebrovascular surgery at the Seattle Neuroscience Institute.

Li has practiced general neurosurgery in the United States for a decade, improving services for patients and implementing a cranial neurosurgery program in Arkansas. Previously she practiced, taught, and did clinical research for nearly a decade at teaching hospitals affiliated with McGill University and the University of Montreal.

Her neurosurgical practice has consisted of 50% cranial and 50% spinal surgeries, with a focus on brain tumors. Li participates in the annual maintenance of certification program of the American Board of Neurological Surgery. She is a member of several medical and neurosurgical organizations and continues to serve as a reviewer for the journal Neurosurgery.