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Topic:
Updates in Minimally Invasive Skull Base
Surgery
About Speaker:
Dr. Theodore H. Schwartz is the David
and Ursel Barnes Endowed Professor of
Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery and a
Professor of Neurosurgery,
Otolaryngology and Neuroscience at Weill
Cornell Medical College, New York
Presbyterian Hospital. He is the
Director of Anterior Skull Base and
Pituitary Surgery, co-Director of
Surgical Neuro-oncology, Director of
Epilepsy Surgery and runs a fellowship
in Minimally Invasive Brain and
Pituitary Surgery. He specializes in the
treatment of Brain, Skull Base and
Pituitary Tumors and Epilepsy using the
latest techniques in minimally invasive
endoscopy, microsurgery and brain
mapping. Dr. Schwartz received his
undergraduate and medical degrees from
Harvard University where he graduated
Magna Cum Laude. After completing his
residency and chief residency in
Neurosurgery at Columbia-Presbyterian
Medical Center he then pursued advanced
fellowship training at Yale-New Haven
Medical Center. He is also the Director
of a basic science laboratory
investigating epilepsy using novel brain
imaging techniques, which is funded by
the NIH, where he has served on several
grant review committees. He has also
received several awards including the
Gentle Giant award given by the
Pituitary Network for his excellence and
dedication to the field of pituitary
surgery.
Dr. Theodore H. Schwartz has appeared on
numerous television shows on ABC, NBC
and CBS as well as appeared on Larry
King. His expertise has been sought
through interviews, quoted and
published, in the Wall Street Journal,
The New York Post, The New York Daily
News, Crain's New York Business and he
has given lectures throughout the
country and world. His medical and
scientific research has been published
in numerous peer reviewed basic science
and clinical journals and he is on the
editorial board of the Journal of
Neurosurgery and World Neurosurgery. He
has been named to lists of New York’s
Superdoctors and Best Doctors and Best
Doctors for Cancer over the last 12
years and has also co-authored seven
textbooks.
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