The Department of Neurosurgery at the Mount Sinai Medical Center was established in 1910 and has become a recognized center of excellence. Internationally renowned areas of expertise exist in skull-base, cerebrovascular, pituitary, acoustic, spinal reconstruction, epilepsy, radiosurgery, stereotactic, primary brain tumor surgery, functional, minimally invasive and neuroendoscopy.

Mount Sinai's noted neurosurgeons have extensive experience in the latest diagnostic and surgical techniques including magnetic resonance imaging, MR and CT angiography, spinal reconstruction, intracranial neuroendoscopy, functional neurosurgery, radiosurgery, and stereotactic, and computer assisted image-guided neurosurgery.