Our mission is to provide outstanding and compassionate neurosurgical care through education, excellence, and groundbreaking research.
Enhancing Synergies Between Surgeons and Scientists
The Department of Neurological Surgery offers an outstanding education in neurosurgery for our medical students, an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) accredited categorical Neurosurgical Residency Training Program, and a two-year Committee on Advanced Sub-specialty Training (CAST) certified Endovascular Neuroradiology Fellowship Program taught by faculty from both the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School based in New Brunswick, New Jersey and the New Jersey Medical School based in Newark, New Jersey.
A simple scoring system from Rutgers Health experts and others predicts outcomes of minimally invasive procedures, potentially expanding treatment options.
The alignment of the academic mission at Rutgers with the clinical mission of RWJBarnabas Health results in a strong academic health system that allows for enhancing the synergies between surgeon scientists and scientists in a lab to guide and direct the research. A public research university like Rutgers offers unlimited potential at bringing together teams of clinicians who understand the barriers in solving medical treatment dilemmas with engineers who can find solutions to generate medical advancements.
Robert E. Gross, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Neurological Surgery
Academic Programs
The ACGME accredited categorical Neurosurgical Residency Training Program provides Neurosurgical training at the highest levels of clinical expertise and technological proficiency.
The two-year CAST certified Endovascular Neuroradiology Fellowship Program is designed to provide a comprehensive educational experience in all aspects of Neurointerventional care, while promoting clinical research.
Understanding How Pathologies Affect the Brain Network
The Department of Neurosurgery has a full-time neurosurgical laboratory and specialty labs in Traumatic Brain Injury, Spine Biomechanics, Spinal Cord Injury, and Cerebrovascular Computational studies. The department is involved in numerous basic, translational, and clinical research projects throughout all subspecialties of neurosurgery.
Our neurosurgeons are among the most experienced in the state and use the latest technology to treat a wide range of neurological conditions and nervous system disorders. Our team performs countless brain and spine surgeries every year, correcting malformations, removing brain and spine tumors, and providing pain relief caused by neurological disease or trauma. Our neurosurgical patients receive state-of-the-art treatments for brain, spine, and other delicate neurosurgical procedures.
