Dr. Jonathan L. Brisman M.D., F.A.C.S.

Jonathan L. Brisman, M.D, F.A.C.S. is a board-certified neurosurgeon who is expert in treating variety of adult degenerative disorders of the spine, including lumbar and cervical disc disease, spinal stenosis, and spondylolisthesis. He also has extensive experience in treating patients with Chiari Malformations, Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH), and all cerebrovascular and endovascular conditions.

Dr. Brisman received his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, in History and Science from Harvard University and his medical degree from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. He then completed a general surgery internship and neurosurgical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, serving as Chief Neurosurgical Resident in his final year. Dr. Brisman went to complete an interventional neuroradiology fellowship at Roosevelt Hospital in New York, NY, under Alejandro Berenstein, MD, and a microvascular neurosurgical fellowship at Swedish Hospital, Seattle, Washington, under Drs. Marc Mayberg and David Newell.

Dr. Brisman has had nearly 50 articles published in peer-reviewed neurosurgery journals. On August 31, 2006, The New England Journal of Medicine published his article, entitled “Medical Progress: Cerebral Aneurysms.”

The New England Journal of Medicine published his article, entitled “Medical Progress: Cerebral Aneurysms,” on August 31, 2006.

Dr. Brisman is a member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and the American Association of Neurological Surgery/Congress of Neurological Surgery (AANS), Cerebrovascular Surgery Section.

Dr. Brisman regularly collaborates with an experienced orthopedic spine surgeon to provide adult patients with operative care for complex spinal conditions. He routinely performs his surgeries at Lenox Hill Hospital/Northwell in Manhattan and NYU Langone on Long Island and in Manhattan, and at several Catholic Health System (CHS) hospitals on Long Island, including St. Francis Hospital and Mercy Medical Center in particular. He recently founded Manhattan-based Park Avenue Neurosurgery (an affiliate of NSPC Brain & Spine Surgery), a NYC practice dedicated to the minimally invasive surgical treatment of adult spinal conditions.

Recognized by his peers as a Castle Connolly “Top Doctor: New York Metro Area” since 2012, Dr. Brisman was included in New York Magazine’s “Best Doctors” listing from 2013-2020. He is the only neurosurgeon from Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk Counties to be selected as a New York Magazine’s “Best Doctor” in 2018 and 2019.”

Dr. Ramin Rak M.D., F.A.A.N.S., F.C.N.S.

Ramin Rak, M.D., F.A.A.N.S., F.C.N.S., is a board certified neurosurgeon who performs complex neurosurgery. He has extensive experience in performing awake craniotomies. Dr. Rak specializes in the treatment of neurological tumors and cerebrovascular and skull base diseases. He uses stereotactic radiosurgery, such as Cyberknife®, as well as complex and minimally invasive spinal procedures. Dr. Rak is an expert in micro-neurosurgical techniques which he utilizes to perform most of his surgeries.

Dr. Rak received his undergraduate degree with high honors in Medical Basic Sciences and his medical degree from the Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium. He then completed an externship followed by Internship and another year of General Surgery residency in the department of surgery at Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D.C. Dr. Rak was a clinical neurosurgery fellow, NIH/NINDS/Surgical Neurology Branch, Bethesda, MD; then a neurosurgery resident at the department of neurosurgery, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. He then joined Dr. Sekhar at the Mid-Atlantic Brain and Spine Institute in Annandale, VA and University of Maryland in Baltimore, MD for a microneurosurgery clinical and research fellowship. He established the “Brain and Spinal Cord Foundation” with Dr. Sekhar in Northern Virginia.

Dr. Rak became a clinical neurosurgery fellow, cerebrovascular and skull base surgery under Dr. Sekhar at North Shore-LIJ, then chief neurosurgery resident, department of neurosurgery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, where he also taught a neurosurgery lecture series.