ABOUT
Theodore H. Schwartz, MD, received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. After completing his residency and chief residency in Neurosurgery at The Neurological Institute of New York, Dr. Schwartz spent a year at Yale-New Haven Medical Center receiving advanced fellowship training and was also awarded the Van Wagenen and Von Humboldt Fellowships to study at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany. He has spent the majority of his neurosurgical career at Weill Cornell Medicine, where he is currently a Professor of Neurosurgery, Otolaryngology and Neuroscience. Dr. Schwartz was named David and Ursel Barnes Professor in Minimally Invasive Surgery, the first endowed professorship in the department. He is also the Vice-Chairman of Clinical Research, the Director of Anterior Skull Base and Pituitary Surgery, the Co-Director of Surgical Neuro-Oncology, the Director of Epilepsy Surgery, and the Epilepsy Research Laboratory.
Dr. Schwartz specializes in the treatment of brain tumors such as meningiomas, pituitary adenomas, glioblastomas, astrocytomas, craniopharyngiomas, chordomas, as well as other diseases such as epilepsy, cerebrospinal fluid leaks and hydrocephalus. He has devoted his career and is world renowned for developing and perfecting a variety of minimally invasive techniques such as endonasal, transorbital, supraorbital endoscopic skull base approaches, laser interstitial therapy, radiosurgery, brachytherapy and robotic surgery. He serves on the scientific advisory board for Precision Neurosciences, a leading company on the frontier of brain-computer interfaces.
Dr. Schwartz has published many scholarly articles for journals such as Brain, Neuron, Nature Medicine, The Journal of Neuroscience NeuroImage, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism as well as the Journal of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery, Epilepsia and the Journal of Neuro-Oncology. He has served on editorial boards for the Journal of Neurosurgery, Acta Neurochirurgica, Epilepsy Currents and World Neurosurgery and has written numerous ad hoc editorial reviews for several other clinical and basic science journals. He has served on several other NIH review committees was a standing member of NSD-C and has himself received K08, R01 and R21 funding from NINDS for his epilepsy research.
Dr. Schwartz has provided commentary for numerous television shows on ABC, NBC, CBS, and Larry King, in addition to national radio shows. His expertise has been sought through interviews, quoted and published, in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The New York Daily News, and Crain's New York Business; he is invited to lecture throughout the country and world on novel minimally invasive neurosurgical techniques. Dr. Schwartz has been named one of New York's Super Doctors, Best Doctors in New York Magazine, America's Top Surgeons, America's Best Doctors and America's Best Doctors for Cancer. He is the co-author of seven books on minimally invasive brain and pituitary surgery as well as a textbook on imaging techniques for the central nervous system.
