Aaron C Spalding, MD, Ph.D.

Dr. Arpit Agrawal is a Cardiologist with a focus in cardiovascular imaging with Norton Heart & Vascular Institute. He earned his medical degree from the University of Louisville School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Washington School of Medicine/Barnes-Jewish Hospital and cardiovascular disease fellowship at Vanderbilt University.

Whitney is a Family Nurse Practitioner who specializes in Endocrinology with Norton Community medical associates Endocrinology. Whitney was born and raised in Louisville, Ky. She attended undergrad at Galen College of Nursing and received her Bachelor’s degree from Spalding University. She went on to pursue her DNP at the University of Kentucky. She practiced as a Registered Nurse at Norton hospital prior joining the Endocrine office and her background there was in Neuro/spine. Whitney believes that education is a huge tool for patients to not only understand their health problems but to enable them to be more compliant and to better advocate and care for themselves. Educating the patient about their particular health issue is essential. Whitney enjoys time with her family especially her nephews and niece. She plays softball and loves outdoor activities. She has two dogs that she adores. She is also a huge University of Louisville fan and enjoys going to all sporting events.

Dr. Mutchnick came to Louisville as a resident in neurological surgery in 2003 and liked it here so much he stayed. He grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and after graduating from college joined the Peace Corps, serving as a math and science teacher in Tanzania, East Africa, and becoming fluent in the Swahili language. Seeing so many underserved people there inspired him to pursue medicine. Prior to medical school, Dr. Mutchnick spent two years studying decision making at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Decision making - good decision making - is the very heart of the patient experience, believes Dr. Mutchnick, helping people understand what is at stake and allowing them to apply their own perspectives and values to that decision is one of the most important things I do. He welcomes patients and families seeking second opinions.While Dr. Mutchnick practices all kinds of pediatric neurosurgery cerebrospinal fluid shunts, Chiari malformations, tethered cords and trauma form a large part of what he cares for he specializes, as well. He is an active part of the craniofacial program at Norton Childrens Hospital and works closely with the pediatric plastic surgery service on even the most complex cases. He is also the Surgical Director of both the Pediatric Epilepsy program as well and the Functional/Spasticity program. Dr. Mutchnick has several research and humanitarian interests. Chief among them is an interest in the neuroscience of human conflict. He regularly provides free pediatric neurosurgical care to children in the West Bank and Gaza and is developing research protocols to understand how children deal with and recover from trauma. He is also interested in how people identify as part of a group and how that changes their understanding of information - a key part of human conflict. He is looking at how best to put information together to help patients make good decisions about simple tethered cords - a condition for which we have no clear way to make a conclusive diagnosis.