Our Team of providers at Tampa Bay Spine and Injury

If you are in need of treatment, Tampa Bay Spine & Injury is the best place you can go for the treatment and care. Our experienced doctors and specialists provide Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, physical therapy, and Chiropractic for individual treatment plans that work.

Robert J Kowalski, Jr., M.D., M.S. P. E.

Dr. Kowalski was born in Meadowbrook, PA and graduated with distinction from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He completed a Master’s Degree in Washington, DC and after five years of service in the Navy’s Civil engineering Corps, he was awarded a Scholarship to attend the University of South Florida College of Medicine. Graduating with honors, he completed residency in neurological surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

Dr. Kowalski utilized his engineering background and distinguished himself by conducting extensive research on spinal biomechanics. He received a prestigious grant from the Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation and following his residency, he also completed a fellowship in complex spinal surgery working with Neurosurgery and Orthopedic Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Kowalski served in the US Air Force for four years serving as the sole neurosurgeon in Afghanistan.

Dr Kowalski’s practice encompasses all aspects of cranial and spinal surgery with particular emphasis on motion preservation technologies, minimally invasive surgery techniques and spinal instrumentation.

Christopher Schrock, M.D.

Dr. Schrock was born and raised in Tampa Florida.  He completed his undergraduate and medical school training at the University of South Florida.  He went on to do an anesthesia residency at the University of Tennessee. Then, he returned to Tampa to do an Interventional Pain Fellowship.  He was hired on staff at USF to serve his hometown community.  He holds privileges at multiple local hospitals, which represents his desire to care for a wide variety of patients.  His primary appointment is at the James A Haley VA hospital where he is medical director of the Chronic Outpatient Rehabilitation Pain Program.  But, he is also still active at Moffitt Cancer Center and practices his primary specialty of anesthesiology at AdventHealth.