Mid-America Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgeons

The Marc A. Asher, MD, Comprehensive Spine Center is located within our Bell Hospital Tower on our Main Campus in Kansas City, Kansas. Our highly trained spine experts treat everything from back pain and sports injuries to tumors and spinal defects. As part of an academic medical center, we offer the most comprehensive spine care for adults and children. Our physicians from multiple specialties collaborate to provide the tests, procedures and rehabilitative therapy you need, all within one physical location.

The University of Kansas Health System is a world-class academic medical center and destination for diagnosis and complex care.

Dr. Joan Collison is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Ophthalmology. She earned her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed her residency at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Dr. Collison's philosophy strongly values the quality of the patient-doctor relationship, along with medication treatments, as important to her practice of psychiatry. She encourages attention to the human spiritual dimension as a vital aspect of health stemming from a recognition of the inter-relationship between psychological/physical suffering and one's spirituality. Patients ideally suited to her practice include those facing life-threatening illness, who place importa