Neurosurgery Residency Program

Neurosurgical Faculty

Joseph M. Koziol, M.D., F.A.C.S. is the Associate Director of Neurosurgery residency program. He is also the Director of neurosurgery at BIMC. In addition to his extensive training in general surgery and neurosurgery at UMDNJ in Newark, NJ, he also received a specialized training at the University of Pittsburgh. His specialty includes, in addition to general microsurgery and minimally invasive spine surgery, complex spine surgery and spine reconstruction for both degenerative and neoplastic diseases of the spine. He is the Director of complex spine surgery program at the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery. He performs routine stereotaxic procedures as well as stereotaxic radiosurgery and he is the Director of Functional Neurosurgery.

Arthur Gilman, M.D. trained in neurosurgery at the Eastern Virginia Medical School where he was also a Fellow in neuroscience and at Ohio State University. His specialty is general neurosurgery with emphasis on microsurgery and CSF pathology. Dr. Gilman is the director of CSF pathology center at Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery with interest in endoscopic intraventricular procedures. He is heavily involved in volunteer work and has participated in neurosurgical projects in South America and Africa where he spends time every year performing surgery and teaching local neurosurgeons in medically deprived areas.

Warner Doyle, M.D. is the Director of Epilepsy surgery program. He was trained in neurosurgery at the New York University Medical Center, New York and received fellowship at the Laurence Berkeley Lab, University of California. His fellowship in epilepsy surgery was completed at Yale Medical School. His practice is dedicated to epilepsy surgery. He is part of the Comprehensive Epilepsy program of the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, the largest Epilepsy Center in New Jersey. Dr. Doyle is Associate Professor of clinical neurosurgery at NYU where he also has a busy clinical practice. He published over 90 peer reviewed articles and abstracts. He authored several book chapters and developed an original computer assisted navigational device.

Arno Fried, M.D. is the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery of the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery at both SBMC and BIMC. His past academic appointments include being the residency Program Director at Cleveland Clinic and Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at both Brown University and New York Medical College. He was also the Director of pediatric neurosurgery at New York Medical College at Valhalla, NY. In addition to his position at the INNS he is also the Director of pediatric neurosurgery at Hackensack University Medical Center. Dr. Fried received his neurosurgery training at the Albert Einstein Medical Center and Montefiore Hospital in New York and completed his pediatric neurosurgery fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He published over 60 articles, abstracts and book chapters and lectured extensively.

Ronald Benitez is an Interventional Neurovascular neurosurgeon who performs neurovascular procedures at both SBMC and BIMC. He is a member of the Atlantic Neurosurgical Specialists group. He received his training in general neurosurgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia where he also received his fellowship in cerebrovascular and interventional neurosurgery. The procedures he performs include intravascular coiling of aneurysms, obliteration of AVMs and decreasing vascularity in tumors as well as clot extraction and intra-arterial clot lysis in patients with acute stroke. He published a number of peer reviewed articles, written several books and lectured extensively.

Lyle Gessner, M.D. is the director of Neuroradiology and Radiology Residency Program Director at SBMC. His specialty includes interpretation of MRIs, CT scans and other radiological procedures pertaining to the neurological diseases. He performs and interprets cerebral angiograms and performs intra-arterial clot lysis on patients with acute stroke. He is closely involved with the training of neurosurgery residents in interpretation of neurodiagnostic studies and attends neurosurgery weekly conferences. He received his general radiology training at Robert Wood Johnson University of the UMDNJ and his fellowship in neuroradiology at New England Medical Center. Prior to his accepting the position of Director of Neuroradiology at SBMC, he was a neuroradiologist at Montefiore Medical Center in New York and at New England Medical Center in Massachusetts. He published several articles and was involved in Phase II/III Acute Stroke trials.

Ray Pak, D.O. is the Director of Pain Service at the Pain Institute located at the Ambulatory Care Center (ACC) of the SBMC. He is an anesthesiologist who received his DO degree from the UMDNJ School of Osteopathic Medicine and had trained in anesthesiology at SBMC. He performs over 400 pain procedures per year and participates in training of the neurosurgery residents in pain procedures and osteopathic principles during their rotation on his service.

C. Steiner, D.O. is in charge of the training of the residents in the osteopathic principles and manipulation. He is highly respected as a clinician and he is presently the Professor Emeritus at the School of Osteopathic Medicine at UMDNJ. His past academic achievements include being the Professor and Chairman in the Department of Osteopathic Sciences of UMDNJ and Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering at Rutgers University as well as Adjunct Professor of Medicine at NYCOM. He published numerous articles and lectured extensively on principles of osteopathic manipulation and other non-surgical treatments of skeletal disorders.