For Dr. Sheila Smitherman, a skilled member of the Olympia Orthopaedic Associates neurosurgery team, her journey began in a small New Mexico farming village. Today she’s a neurosurgeon specializing in brain tumors, tumors of the spine and spinal cord, and degenerative spinal problems such as spinal stenosis or disc herniations causing pinched nerves.
Sherry had an eight-centimeter tumor growing from her dura, which is the covering of the brain and pushing on her brain.Sherry was referred to neurosurgeon Sheila Smitherman, MD, Providence Medical Group, for further diagnosis and treatment. Dr. Smitherman identified the tumor as a meningioma.