Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute

The multidisciplinary Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute combines all physicians and other healthcare providers in neurology, neurosurgery, neuroradiology, the behavioral sciences and nursing who treat adult and pediatric patients with neurological disorders. Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute offers a disease-specific, patient-focused approach to care. Our unique, fully integrated model is beneficial to our current standard of care, allows us to measure quality and outcomes on a continual basis, and enhances our ability to conduct research to benefit patients in the future.  U.S.News & World Report's "America’s Best Hospitals" survey has consistently ranked our Neurology and Neurosurgery programs among the top 10 in the nation and best in Ohio. Our Psychiatry program also is ranked best in Ohio.

Center for Neuroradiology                                                                                   

The Section of Neuroradiology’s staff physicians are all fellowship trained and have earned Certificates of Added Qualification in Neuroradiology from the American Board of Radiology.

Cleveland Clinic staff members are highly skilled in MRI, CT, myelography, diagnostic cerebral/spinal angiography, interventional neuro-radiology and transcranial Doppler.

The training and extensive daily experience of our neuroradiologists has enabled them to develop subspecialties within their field to better serve the specialized needs of our referring physicians. Diagnostic subspecialty areas of expertise include cerebrovascular disease, spine imaging, pediatric neuroradiology, otolaryngology, epilepsy, MR angiography, transcranial Doppler and carotid ultrasound.

Cleveland Clinic neurointerventionalists are all proficient in the therapeutic approach of acute stroke (“Brain Attack”), internal/external carotid artery embolizations, GDC coil occlusion of intracranial aneurysms, treatment of vasospasm and atherosclerotic occlusive disease and carotid artery stenting.

Research in this section continues to evolve, with an emphasis on topics that are especially important to our clinical practice. Examples include a large-scale, multicenter prospective trial of carotid artery MRA; the neuro-imaging of acute stroke; intra-arterial thrombolysis for acute stroke; cytoprotective agents for acute stroke patients; carotid artery stenting; transcranial Doppler; malformations of brain cortical development; animal model for assessment and treatment of hydrocephalus; treatment and neuro-imaging of multiple sclerosis; and the Gliatech multicenter clinical trial for the prevention of postoperative peridural fibrosis.

 

Staff Contact
Thomas J. Masaryk, M.D.
Head, Section of Neuroradiology

 

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Cleveland Clinic Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Faculty

Cleveland Clinic Neurosurgeons and Radiation Oncologists were the first to bring stereotactic radiosurgery to Ohio in August of 1989 using a modified linear accelerator. Their extensive experience in over 300 radiosurgery cases at Cleveland Clinic led them to conclude that the benefits of stereotactic radiosurgery would be available to more patients by offering Gamma Knife radiosurgery as an alternative or, in some cases as an adjunct, to conventional neurosurgical procedures. In its first year the Program treated 214 cases, making this the most successful first-year Gamma Knife Center in North America at that time. Our Gamma Knife Center is also one of three training centers world-wide certified by the manufacturer of the Gamma Knife for training of professionals new to Gamma Knife radiosurgery procedures. We have recently upgraded to the most technologically advanced Gamma Knife model available, Model 4C. The new Gamma Knife model offers enhanced planning, using all image modalities, including PET, CT and MR, as well as reduced treatment time. In 2006, we treated our 2000th case with Gamma Knife radiosurgery.
This past July, we were the second Center in the country to upgrade our equipment to the most technologically advanced model available, Elekta's Gamma Knife Perfexion, which allows treatment in a wider range of anatomical structures, improves treatment planning, increases patient comfort and reduces treatment time.
The most common indication for Gamma Knife radiosurgery procedure is brain metastases, a condition that afflicts nearly a quarter of patients suffering from cancer. For the past several years, the most common indication of all Gamma Knife radiosurgery treatments at our center was for metastatic disease. The remaining percentage of Gamma Knife radiosurgery treatments were for primary and benign tumors, trigeminal neuralgia and arteriovenous malformations.
 
Neurological Institute Faculty
Gene H. Barnett, M.D., F.A.C.S. Director, Brain Tumor and Neuro-Oncology Center, Director, Gamma Knife Center
Lilyana Angelov, M.D. Head, Section of Spinal Radiosurgery
Michael Vogelbaum, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Director, Brain Tumor and Neuro-Oncology Center
Robert Weil, M.D. Director, Laboratory Research
 
Radiation Oncology Faculty
John Suh, M.D., Chairman, Radiation Oncology, Associate Director, Gamma Knife Center
Radiation Physics Faculty

Gennady Neyman, Ph.D.

October 20-22, 2008
Gama Knife Perfxion – Update Training Cleveland Clinic Gamma Knife Center
Cleveland, Ohio 

October 30-31, 2008
Neuroimaging in Tramatic Brain Injury
Course Directors: Stephen Rao, MD,
and Harvey Lenin, PhD Baylor
College of Medicine
InterContinental Hotel
Cleveland, Ohio

 

December 1–5, 2008
Gamma Knife Perfexion
Cleveland Clinic Gamma Knife Center
Cleveland, Ohio

 

February 9-11, 2009
Case Studies in Epilepsy Surgery
Course Directors: William Bingaman, MD and Imad Najm, MD
The Silvertree Hotel
Snowmass Village, Colorado