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Dr. John A. Boockvar, MD
Department of Neurosurgery, Lenox Hill Hospital
Research
Overview
John Boockvar, MD, is the vice chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Lenox Hill Hospital and director of the department’s Brain Tumor Center, the Pituitary/Neuroendocrine Center, and the New York Head and Neck Institute at Lenox Hill and Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat hospitals.
Dr. Boockvar is a professor of neurological surgery and otolaryngology/head and neck surgery at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He is also an investigator at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, where he directs the Laboratory for Brain Tumor Biology and Therapy. Dr. Boockvar was appointed as an adjunct professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory thanks to his great advancements in understanding and treating brain cancer. He is also head of experimental therapeutics for Northwell Health, where he helps oversee the oncological research goals for Northwell as a whole. Dr. Boockvar’s compassionate cancer care was recently highlighted in the critically acclaimed Netflix docuseries Lenox Hill and Emergency NYC.
Dr. Boockvar is internationally known for his surgical expertise and for providing patients with safe, effective and minimally invasive treatment for brain tumors, skull base disorders and disorders of the spine. His surgical expertise is in benign and malignant brain tumors, skull base and endoscopic pituitary surgery, spinal and peripheral nerve tumors, minimally invasive spinal surgery, and complex spinal disorders.
Dr. Boockvar has been recognized for his novel research in brain tumors and stem cell biology, and has been named to lists including New York Magazine’s Top Docs, Best Doctors in New York-Castle Connolly, New York Super Doctors (2022), America's Top Surgeons, America's Best Doctors, and America's Best Doctors for Cancer. His research has been widely published and he has received numerous national awards, including the Eric Lichtenstein Humanitarian Award from Voices Against Brain Cancer for his compassionate work in treating patients with brain cancer. In 2016, Dr. Boockvar was elected to the prestigious Academy of Neurological Surgeons and the following year was elected to the Senior Society of the American Board of Neurological Surgery. Dr. Boockvar is also an honorary surgeon of the NYPD and the New York State Troopers.
About The Center
Lenox Hill Neurosurgery is world-renowned for its dedication to providing patients with superior care. Led by David J. Langer, MD and John Boockvar, MD, we are ranked #22 in U.S. News & World Report's 2022-23 Best Hospitals for both Neurosurgery and Neurology and #28 in Newsweek's 2023 list of the World's Best Specialized Hospitals for Neurosurgery. Our multidisciplinary team focuses on minimally invasive surgical treatments of vascular diseases (including aneurysms, vascular malformations, and stroke), skull base and brain tumors, complex spinal disorders, cranioplasty and neuroplastic surgery, and restorative and geriatric disorders (hydrocephalus).
The research arm of Lenox Hill Neurosurgery — the Laboratory for Brain Tumor Biology and Therapy at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research — draws experts from multiple disciplines to participate in leading-edge research of brain and spinal cord tumors. Our doctors run the Brain Tumor Biotech Center at the Feinstein Institutes, which is the only biotech center in the world dedicated to accelerating treatments for patients with brain tumors. Our patients have access to clinical research studies offering novel, state-of-the-art therapies developed by our own physicians, as well as those that are done in collaboration with other sites.
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Other Medical Advisory Board Members
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Vidya Gopalakrishnan, PH.D.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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Ricardo J Komotar, MD, FAANS, FACS
University of Miami Health Systems
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Dr. Henry S. Friedman
The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center
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Michael E. Ivan, MD, MBS, FAANS
University of Miami Health Systems