Dr. Mickey was born in New Orleans and completed his neurosurgical residency at UT Southwestern Medical Center and completed a fellowship at the Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is vice chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at UT Southwestern where he holds the William Kemp Clark Chair in Neurological Surgery.
His specialties include the surgical management of benign and malignant intracranial tumors, surgery for epilepsy and radiosurgery.
Dr. Mickey is Director of the Annette Straus Center for Neuro-Oncology at UT Southwestern Medical School.
He is an active member of the Joint Section on Tumors and Congress of Neurological Surgeons since 1985 and is a member of the following organizations: American Association of Neurological Surgeons Congress of Neurological Surgeons North American Skull Base Society