From bench to bedside, the neurosurgeon scientists of the Weill Cornell Medicine brain tumor team have a single focus: New treatments for brain cancer as well as less invasive treatments for benign brain tumors. About the Brain Tumor Surgery Center
Brain Tumor Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine
The Brain Tumor Surgery Service at the Weill Cornell Medicine Brain and Spine Center is a world-class provider of treatment for benign and malignant brain tumors
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Our Care Team
- Chairman and Neurosurgeon-in-Chief
- Margaret and Robert J. Hariri, MD ’87, PhD ’87 Professor of Neurological Surgery
- Vice Provost of Business Affairs and Integration
Phone: 212-746-4684
- Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery
- Leon Levy Research Fellow
- Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute
Phone: 646-962-3389
- Director, Neurosurgical Radiosurgery
- Associate Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery
- Robert G. Schwager, MD ’67 Education Scholar, Cornell University
Phone: 212-746-2438
- Chief of Neurological Surgery, NewYork-Presbyterian Queens
Phone: (718) 670-1837
- Chief of Neurological Surgery, NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist
- Alvina and Willis Murphy Associate Professor, Neurological Surgery
- Director, Brain Metastases Program
- Co-director, William Rhodes and Louise Tilzer-Rhodes Center for Glioblastoma
Phone: 212-746-1996
- Vice Chair for Clinical Research
- David and Ursel Barnes Professor in Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Otolaryngology
- Director, Center for Epilepsy and Pituitary Surgery
- Co-Director, Surgical Neuro-oncology
Phone: 212-746-5620
- Assistant Attending Radiation Oncologist, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
- Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, Weill Cornell Medical College
Phone: (212) 746-3600
- Director of Neuro-oncology
- Director, Brain Tumor Center, Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center
Phone: 646-962-2185
- Assistant Attending Neurologist, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
- Assistant Professor of Neuro-Oncologist
Phone: 646-962-2185
- Attending Otolaryngologist
- Professor of Otolaryngology in Neurological Surgery
- Professor of Otolaryngology
- Professor of Otolaryngology in Neurology
Phone: 646-962-3277
It was 22 years ago today – November 1, 2000 – that I became the first chair of the newly formed department of neurosurgery and neurosurgeon-in-chief of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. I suppose I might have been more reflective...