Mitchell Levine
Lenox Hill Hospital - Dept of Neurosurgery
Office (212) 434-3900
130 East 77th Street
3 Black Hall
New York, NY 10075
Primary Specialty
Neurosurgeon
Practice
Lenox Hill Hospital - Dept of Neurosurgery
Gender
Male
Certification
Neurological Surgery - American Board of Neurological Surgery
About
Mitchell Levine
Mitchell E. Levine, MD joined the North Shore-LIJ Health System in 2005 after over 20 years of practice and is currently the Director of Spine Surgery within the Division of Neurosurgery at Lenox Hill Hospital. He is also Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine. During his career Dr. Levine has concentrated on complex and minimally invasive spine surgery, facial pain, trigeminal neuralgia, pain modulation procedures and radiosurgery.Dr. Levine received his medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine and continued his training there in neurosurgery. Under the pioneering microneurosurgeon Dr. Leonard Malis, Dr. Levine was appointed Director of Spinal Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai and then the Director of Neurosurgery at The New York Hospital Queens before joining the North Shore-LIJ Health System. As a resident, he won the prestigious New York Neurosurgical Society Resident Award. Dr. Levine was also a National Institutes of Health neurotraumatolgy fellow at the Medical College of Virginia.Among his accomplishments, Dr. Levine performed the first early aneurysm surgery at Mount Sinai and pioneered the use of temporary clip occlusion in complex aneurysm cases. More recently, he investigated the use of a novel radiotherapy treatment for malignant brain tumors and has presented his work on the radiosurgical treatment of multiple brain metastasis. In addition, Dr. Levine s clinical and research interests include neuromodulation and the interface of technology and biology, as well as the understanding of the molecular mechanisms of intervetebral disc degeneration and repair. Dr. Levine is one of the few clinically expert spine surgeons to be actively involved in laboratory research and has widely published with Dr. Chahine.
Services
Mitchell Levine provides neurosurgery in New York, NY. A Neurosurgeon is trained to diagnose and treat disorders of the spinal cord, brain and nervous system such as Parkinson's disease and neurological disorders.
Please call Mitchell Levine at (212) 434-3900 to schedule an appointment in New York, NY or to get more information.