UB’s Department of Neurosurgery is ranked seventh in North America in academic impact in neurosurgery, above Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Johns Hopkins.
Elad Levy, MD, UB associate professor of neurosurgery, successfully implanted a stent in an artery inside a teenager’s skull to prevent a stroke, a procedure thought to be the first conducted on an adolescent.
UB pediatric neurosurgeons have shown that securing brain shunts with antimicrobial sutures reduces the number of shunt infections, which may result in fewer of the shunts needing to be replaced.
