The Department of Neurological Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience represents one of the busiest academic neurosurgical programs in the country, offering comprehensive management for patients with neurological diseases affecting the brain and spine.

The Jefferson neurosurgical program emphasizes state-of-the-art treatment of brain tumors, spinal disease, vascular brain diseases, epilepsy, pain, Parkinson's disease and the full gamut of neurological disorders. These include, whenever possible, the following procedures that are safer than conventional surgery on the brain or spine:

• Precisely targeted radiosurgery, applied with such leading-edge technologies – available first and/or exclusively at Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience – as Shaped Beam Surgery™, a gamma knife and a specially designed linear accelerator.
  
  
• Minimally invasive neurosurgery, utilizing a robotically controlled microscope, unique to the Delaware Valley, that can focus on parts of the brain without the need for large “exploratory” incisions, or frameless “viewing wands,” which are devices guide the surgeon’s instruments through parts of the brain or spine that are not visible to the naked eye.

Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience's neurosurgical staff performs over 5,000 procedures annually.

In addition, our clinicians are collaborating with scientists on staff at the Farber Institute for Neuroscience at JHN on research encompassing a variety of areas, including cerebrovascular disease, gene therapy and epileptic behavior.

For information about specific physicians in this department, or for a referral or appointment, call 1-800-JEFF-NOW or make an  appointment online.