Why Choose Us for Your Child's Care

Our Spasticity Center is the only program in the tri-state area and among the few nationwide that performs minimally invasive selective dorsal rhizotomy to decrease spasticity due to cerebral palsy.
Our neurosurgical program employs the latest technologies, including gamma knife radiosurgery, endoscopic neurosurgery, and spinal instrumentation for cervical fusion.
The neurosurgery program at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital is actively involved in basic and translational research of brain tumors in children and adolescents. Through collaborations with world-renowned researchers at Columbia University and Harvard Medical School, the Gabriele Bartoli Brain Tumor Research Laboratory is investigating how the immune system interacts with childhood brain tumors. Primary brain tumors are the most common solid cancer among children, and medulloblastomas (MEDs) are the most frequent malignant brain tumor in pediatric patients. In the last decade there have been significant advances in the use of chemotherapy to treat childhood brain tumors, with 5-year survival rates for pediatric MEDs of greater than 70percent

One Hosptial affilitated with two Ivy League Medical Schools: Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Among the nation's best in patient care, medical education, and research.