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The Department of Neurological Surgery is a principal component of the neurosciences program at Stony Brook Medicine. The main objective of the department is to provide quality patient care using the latest technology while integrating a commitment to teaching and research in the neurosciences. Our goal is to provide our students with an education that fosters the intellectual and technical skills and professional attitudes necessary to succeed in clinical care, research, education, and to provide a deep understanding of clinical practice and scientific inquiry. The clinical faculty members provide surgical care to both adult and pediatric patients who require surgical treatment for diseases and disorders of the spine and brain. The faculty holds leadership roles in many of the Centers of the Neurosciences Institute, including the Cerebrovascular and Stroke Center, the Movement Disorders Center, the Epilepsy Center and the Spine Center to name a few. The department includes faculty with training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation who provide non-surgical treatment of spine disorders, varying from prescription of physical therapy programs to performance of fluoroscopically guided injections and a Neurocritical Care Unit, under the direction of two neurointensivists.
The Neurosurgery Residency Program is a seven-year program under the direction of the Department of Neurosurgery. The program provides a broad neurosurgical education in general neurosurgery and subspecialty neurosurgery, as well as an opportunity for residents to participate in both clinical and basic science research.
Our program’s strong emphasis on clinical neurosurgical education and on research education takes place in collaboration with faculty neuroscientists in the Department of Neurosurgery at Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, which is one of the leading research institutions in the world.
Our goal is to provide our residents with an education that fosters the intellectual and technical skills and professional attitudes necessary to succeed in clinical care, research, education, and provide a deep understanding of clinical practice and scientific inquiry. By educating our residents to be skilled and ethical attending neurosurgeons, they will be well equipped to contribute to the highest quality patient care and to the acquisition and dissemination of the scientific understanding and the treatment of neurosurgical disorders.
Weekly protected didactic time is a strong component of our program. Residents are engaged in various educational seminars on Wednesday and Friday mornings. Our didactics include weekly resident-led journal clubs, monthly spine focused journal clubs, cadaver-based spine labs and an annual hands-on cadaver based peripheral nerve lab. Neurosurgery collaborates with other departments such as orthopedics and plastic surgery to provide a full-day didactic and dissection course for residents and medical students.
We are proud to be part of the Neurosciences Institute which is a collaborative effort among multiple clinical and basic science departments here at Stony Brook University, and includes multiple specialty centers, including:
- JCAHO Comprehensive Stroke Center
- Inpatient Stepdown Unit
- Neuro-critical Care Unit
- Level 4 Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
- Inpatient Video Epilepsy Monitoring Unit
- Comprehensive Spine Center
- Comprehensive Multiple Sclerosis Center
- Neuromuscular Disease and ALS Center
- The Stony Brook University Neuromuscular Disease and Christopher Pendergast ALS Center of Excellence - An ALS Association Certified Center
- Neuro-Oncology Center
- Skull Base Surgery Center
- Sleep Disorders Center
- Huntington’s Disease Center of Excellence
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