Dr. Kevin Foley is a tenured professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tennessee. He also holds academic appointments in the University of Tennessee Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Uniformed Services University for the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.

Dr. Foley received his medical degree and completed his neurosurgical residency at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Following residency, Dr. Foley spent seven years serving in the United States Army Medical Corps. After his final assignment as chief of neurosurgery and director of the neurosurgical residency program at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

He left the military to enter private practice and pursue an academic career. In addition to a full-time spine surgery practice, Dr. Foley is actively involved in research in minimally invasive spine surgery, image-guided spinal navigation, and spinal biomechanics. He has authored over 26 book chapters and more than 90 journal publications, has lectured at more than 300 scientific meetings and educational workshops, and has been a visiting professor and invited lecturer at several universities in the United States and abroad. Dr. Foley also serves as director of the spine fellowship program for the University of Tennessee Department of Neurosurgery, vice-chairman of the Semmes-Murphey Neurologic & Spine Institute, and chairman of the board and medical director for the Medical Education & Research Institute.