Neurological Surgery

Pituitary and Anterior Skull Base Surgery

Pituitary and Anterior Skull Base Surgery

The Pituitary and Anterior Skull Base Surgery service is home to some amazing success stories in treating pituitary tumors. What was once considered medical fiction is now a bona fide alternative to previously intrusive surgery. About Pituitary and Skull Base Surgery

News

A Top Hospital Neurosurgery in the World, #1 in NY, Third Year in a Row!
A Top Hospital for Neurosurgery in the World, #1 in NY, Third Year in a Row!
September 28, 2023

Since Newsweek and Statista started ranking specialized hospitals in 2021, the neurosurgery service at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University has been at the top...

New York Magazine top doctors 2023
A Record 17 WCM Neurosurgery Faculty Named Top Doctors in New York
July 31, 2023

The neurosurgeons of Weill Cornell Medicine are consistently named to annual lists of Top Doctors, Best Doctors, and Super Doctors. This year, we have a record 17 members of our team on the Castle...

Pituitary and Anterior Skull Base Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine

The Pituitary and Anterior Skull Base Surgery Service at Weill Cornell Medicine Neurological Surgery is a world-class provider of treatment.

Letty Cottin Progrebin at her desk at home in New York (Mike Lovett)
“I Assumed I’d Been Handed a Death Sentence” A Pituitary Tumor Story of Shame and Secrecy
Famed author and activist Letty Cottin Pogrebin thought her life was over — but a name from her past turned out to be the one who could calm her fears about the future

Our Care Team

Dr. Theodore H. Schwartz
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  • Vice Chair for Clinical Research
  • David and Ursel Barnes Professor of Minimally Invasive Brain Surgery
  • Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Otolaryngology
  • Director, Center for Epilepsy and Pituitary Surgery
  • Co-Director, Surgical Neuro-oncology
Clinical Profile
Phone: 212-746-5620
Dr. Georgiana Dobri
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  • Associate Professor of Neuroendocrinology in Neurological Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine
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Phone: 646-962-3556
Jeffrey Greenfield, MD, PhD
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  • Vice Chair for Academic Affairs
  • Professor of Neurological Surgery, Pediatric Neurosurgery
  • Director, Residency Program
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Phone: 212-746-2363
John Park, MD, PhD
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  • Chief of Neurological Surgery, NewYork-Presbyterian Queens
  • Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery
  • Co-director, Weill Cornell Medicine CSF Leak Program
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Phone: (718) 670-1837
Dr. Rohan Ramakrishna
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  • Chief of Neurological Surgery, NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist
  • Professor, Neurological Surgery
  • Director, Brain Metastases Program
  • Co-director, William Rhodes and Louise Tilzer-Rhodes Center for Glioblastoma
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Phone: 212-746-1996 (Manhattan) / 718-780-3070 (Brooklyn)
Martin Zonenshayn, MD
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  • Associate Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery
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Research Profile
Phone: 718-780-5176
Melissa Dee Katz, M.D.
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  • Endocrinologist
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Phone: (646) 962-8690
Vivian Rusinek Sobel, M.D.
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  • Endocrinologist
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Phone: (646) 962-8690

Neurosurgery Blog

Taking the Show on the Road
Dr. Theodore Schwartz

By Theodore Schwartz, MD
David and Ursel Barnes Professor in Minimally Invasive Surgery
I’ve traveled around the world to dozens of professional conferences and courses — in China, India, Egypt, and more — to train many neurosurgeons in advanced techniques for treating skull base tumors. But my past two summers in Mexico have provided...
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