The Mount Sinai Medical Center Neurosurgical Virtual Reality Simulation Program

The Department of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center became the first in the United States to acquire and to use the Neuro Touch virtual-reality brain surgery simulator in the fall of 2012. Under the leadership of chairman Joshua Bederson, MD, the multidisciplinary team has grown to include experts from many parts of the institution.

Principal Investigator:
Joshua Bederson, MD
Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery

Co-Investigators:
Aman Patel, MD
Professor, Neurosurgery & Radiology
Vice Chair, Department of Neurosurgery
Director Residency Program

Errol Gordon, MD
Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery & Neurology

Patricia Kovatch
Associate Dean for Scientific Computing

Study Team:

Fedor Panov, MD
PGY 6
Department of Neurosurgery

Jonathan Rasouli, MD
PGY 1
Department of Neurosurgery

EJ Fernandez, MD, CCRP 
Clinical Research & Trials Manager
Mount Sinai Medical Center

Zachary Lorsch
MD/PhD Student, M1
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Chaim Miller
Rutgers University

Program Administrator:
Anna Millhiser 
Communications & Marketing Manger
Department of Neurosurgery