The Department of Neurological Surgery

Patient Care

• Tisch University Hospital
• Bellevue Hospital and Medical Center
• Manhattan Veterans Administration Hospital
• Hospital for Joint Disease

The Clinical Program

• Adult Neurosurgery
• Pediatric Neurosurgery
• Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Clinical Faculty

Patrick J. Kelly, MD, FACS. Chairman.

Arthur A. Battista, MD

Vallo Benjamin, MD

Fred J. Epstein, MD

Paul R. Cooper, MD

Jafar Jafar, MD

Michael Dogali, MD

Jeffery Wisoff, MD

Max Koslow, MD

Ira R. Abbott, MD

Werner Doyle, MD

Interventional Neuroradiology

Alexandro Berenstein, MD-Director

Kim Nelson, MD

Avi Setton, MD

Stereotactic MRI Clinical Research Unit

Ed Knopp, MD

Andrew Litt, MD

Nursing Service

Lynette Palmer, RN

Training Programs

1. Neurosurgical Residency
2. Post-Residency Fellowships
   • Pediatric Neurosurgery
   • Spine Neurosurgery/ Orthopedic Surgery
   • Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
3. Research Internships
4. Post Graduate Nursing Education
   • Neurosurgical Nurse Clinician Fellowship
   • Neurosurgical Operating Room Technician
5. Reasearch Programs
   • Neurosurgical Laboratories
     • Facilities
     • Personnel
       • Wise Young, MD,PhD, Director
       • Mitchel Chessler, PhD
       • Margaret Rice, PhD
   • Glial Tumor Research Unit
     • Program
     • Personnel
       • Douglas Miller, MD, PhD
       • David Zagzag, MD, PhD
       • David Friedlander, PhD
   • Tumor Bank

     Roberta Hayes, PhD

   • Functional Cortical Mapping

     Rodolfo Llinas, MD, PhD, Director

     Vedran Delitis, MD, Dept. of Anesthesia