Department of Neurosurgery
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DonationsChairman's MessageThe Department of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai Hospital has a distinguished history, having become a distinct department in 1932 and having had a residency training program approved by the AMA since 1956. The Department is proud of its record in providing outstanding patient care, initiating innovative research and training neurosurgeons for the future. The faculty has been pioneering advances in frameless stereotactic cranial surgery, computer-assisted image-guided minimally invasive surgery, endoscopic neurosurgery, microsurgery, physiologic monitoring in the operating room, spinal disease, management of neurovascular abnormalities and tumors of the nervous system, functional neurosurgery and surgery of epilepsy. We depend on the generosity of caring donors to sustain both our clinical and laboratory research endeavors and to help us provide our patients with the most advanced treatment options and surgical techniques. The department has two Cerebrovascular Laboratories: one is studying the regulation of cerebral blood flow, while the other is examining aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Our Electrophysiology Laboratory is designed to provide basic resources for the department's clinical intra-operative electrophysiological efforts while simultaneously performing hypothesis testing studies. The main focus of the Gene Therapy and Brain Tumor laboratory is to investigate new strategies for adjuvant treatment of brain tumors. In our new Spinal Cord Injury Laboratory our physicians and scientists are trying to develop breakthroughs for patients after spinal cord injury: they hope to activate movement in muscles through the use of strategically placed electrodes. Another study in the department focuses on the area of outcome assessments as related to spinal diseases and their therapy. We in the Department of Neurosurgery are grateful to our many supporters for their visionary philanthropic spirit. Their generosity enables us to continue providing unsurpassed patient care, clinical and basic research, education and training. Kalmon D. Post, M.D.Professor and Chair, Neurosurgery |