Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Director Brain Tumor Center
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Lake Success, New York, United States
Michael Schulder, MD, is Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He is the Program Director of neurosurgical residency training at the Zucker SOM, Director of the Brain Tumor Center of the Northwell Neuroscience Institute, and co-Director of the Center for Stereotactic Radiosurgery in the Northwell Cancer Institute. His particular areas of focus include image-guided brain tumor surgery, stereotactic radiosurgery, and functional neurosurgery, on which he has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers along with numerous book chapters and abstracts.
Dr. Schulder runs Northwell’s clinical trials programs for patients with brain tumors. He has been the principal investigator on numerous trials, pioneering the use of various methods of image guidance in neurosurgery, including functional and intraoperative MRI.
Dr. Schulder is a director at large of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, which he also served as the Historian. He is the Past President of the American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, the World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, and the New York Society of Neurosurgery. Dr. Schulder is on the editorial board of several major neurosurgical journals, including Neurosurgery, Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, and the Journal of Neuro-Oncology. He recently served for five years on the Journal of Neurosurgery editorial board. Dr. Schulder is the editor of The Handbook of Stereotactic Neurosurgery and a co-editor of Functional Neurosurgery: The Essentials. He has been named to Castle Connolly’s Top Doctors of the New York Metro Area for more than 18 years in a row, and is an elected member of the American Academy of Neurological Surgery (where currently serves as Historian) and the Society of Neurological Surgeons.
Dr. Schulder trained at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed his residency in neurological surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and further advanced his training in stereotactic neuro-oncology at the University of Florida and at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.
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Saturday, May 4, 2024
4:41 PM – 4:45 PM CT