Center for Community Health at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
515 6th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
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About Rohan Ramakrishna, M.D.
Rohan Ramakrishna, MD, is an award-winning neurosurgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian Medical Group Brooklyn and the chief of neurosurgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. He is an associate professor of neurological surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine, where he also directs the Brain Metastases Clinic. He specializes in the treatment of brain tumors and other central nervous system tumors. Dr. Ramakrishna treats patients with gliomas, metastatic disease, skull base lesions, and pituitary disorders. He employs advanced awake mapping, imaging techniques, and microsurgery to ensure maximal tumor removal and achieve the safest possible surgical outcomes. Furthermore, Dr. Ramakrishn...
Board Certifications
- Neurological Surgery
Expertise
- Acoustic Neuroma
- Acromegaly
- Arnold-Chiari Malformation
- Astrocytoma
- Brain Cancer
- Brain Metastases
- Brain Stem Glioma
- Brain Tumor
- Carotid Body Tumors
- Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Leak
- Chiari Malformation
- Chordoma
- Colloid Cysts
- Communicating Hydrocephalus
- Congenital Hydrocephalus
- Craniopharyngioma Surgery
- Cushing's Syndrome
- Cutaneous Neurofibroma
- Dermoid Cyst
- Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG)
- Ependymoma
- Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
- Germ Cell Tumors
- Glioblastoma Multiforme
- Glioma
- Hydrocephalus
- Intracranial Cyst
- Intracranial Hypotension
- Intraventricular Brain Tumors
- Lipoma
- Low Grade Glioma
- Malignant Meningioma
- Medulloblastoma
- Meningioma
- Neurofibroma
- Neurofibromatosis
- Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
- Obstructive Hydrocephalus
- Oligodendroglioma
- Optic Pathway Glioma
- Orbital Tumor
- Pineal Cyst
- Pineal Parenchymal Tumors
- Pineal Tumors
- Pineocytoma/Pineoblastoma
- Pituitary Surgery
- Pituitary Tumors
- Rathke's Cleft Cyst
- Recurrent Meningioma
- Schwannoma of the Brain
- Schwannomatosis
- Skull Base Surgery
- Skull Lesion
- Spine Tumors
- Subdural Hematoma
- Subependymal Giant Cell Tumor (SEGA)
- Tectal Glioma
- Teratoma
- Tinnitus
- Traumatic Brain Injury
Education
- Internship: University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals
- Residency: University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals
Languages
- English
Titles & Positions
- Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College
- Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College
Hospital Affiliations
- NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center
- NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
Education
- Internship: University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals
- Residency: University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals
Titles & Positions
- Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College
- Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College
Board Certifications
- neurological surgery
Languages Spoken
- english
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Research
Combined PET imaging of tumor hypoxia and proliferation in Glioblastoma using a single injection of 18F-FMISO and 18F-FLT: Association with sites of subsequent recurrence.
November 01, 2026Technical nuances of the endoscopic resection of a growing third ventricular colloid cyst without hydrocephalus: Two-dimensional operative video.
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Just a nice experience.
May 05, 2026
Very thorough and helpful
September 24, 2024
My provider saw me as a follow up to a surgery I had 3 months ago and my interaction with him was all that I could ask for.
September 19, 2024