All neurological surgery faculty members are fully trained in general neurosurgical care as well as subspecialty expertise.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Full-time Faculty
Chair
H. Hunt Batjer, MD
Cerebrovascular disorders including arteriovenous malformations, stroke, brain hemorrhage, aneurysms, vascular malformations, brain cysts or tumors
Bernard R. Bendok, MD
Neurological surgery; cerebrovascular surgery; radiology; endovascular and microsurgical techniques to treat aneurysm, AVM, dural and spinal fistulae, carotid disease, brain tumor, stroke, and cavernoma; carotid stenting and endarterectomy; intracranial and vertebral artery angioplasty and stenting; vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty; acute stroke treatment
James P. Chandler, MD
Neuro-oncology, skull base surgery, brain and spinal cord tumors, spinal surgery, stereotactic radiosurgery
George R. Cybulski, MD
Surgical treatment of diseases of the spine, surgical treatment of spinal cord injury, surgical treatment of tumors of the brain and spinal cord
Richard G. Fessler, MD, PhD
Minimally invasive spinal surgery and instrumentation, complex spine surgery, adult deformity, rheumatoid arthritis, spinal cord tumors
Aruna Ganju, MD
Spinal surgery and instrumentation with emphasis on cervical spine
Tyler Koski, MD
Spine surgery; adult deformity; brain, spine, and spinal cord tumors; trauma; sagittal alignment; and spinal biomechanics
Joshua M. Rosenow, MD
Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery, deep brain stimulation, surgery of epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, tremor, dystonia, neurostimulation for chronic pain, trigeminal neuralgia and chronic facial pain, lumbar and cervical discectomy, general neurosurgery
Clinical Faculty
J. Thomas Brown, MD
Spinal surgery, traumatic spinal cord injuries, degenerative disease of the spine
Francisco A. Gutierrez, MD
Spinal surgery, pediatric neurosurgery
Wesley Y. Yapor, MD
Spinal surgery, cerebrovascular surgery
Children's Memorial Hospital
Chief
Tadanori Tomita, MD
Pediatric neurosurgery, pediatric brain tumors
Tord D. Alden, MD
Surgical epilepsy, spina bifida, tethered spinal cord, hydrocephalus, chiari malformations, brain tumors, head trauma, brachial plexus injuries, spasticity, cranial deformities, neuro-endoscopy, minimally invasive techniques
Robin M. Bowman, MD
Pediatric neurosurgery
Arthur J. DiPatri, Jr., MD
General pediatric neurosurgery, epilepsy surgery, pediatric spinal disorders, pediatric cerebrovascular surgery, brain and spinal cord injury, hydrocephalus, congenital disorders
David G. McLone, MD, PhD
Pediatric neurosurgery, pediatric spinal disorders, neural tube defects, lipomas, hydrocephalus
