Dr. Michael Schulder is vice chairman and residency program director in the Department of Neurosurgery at North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center and Director of Northwell Health’s Neuroscience Institute Brain Tumor Center, Co-Director of Northwell Health’s Center for Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Radiation Therapy, Investigator at the Center for Neurosurgery at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, as well as Vice Chair and Professor of Neurosurgery at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.
Prior to joining Northwell Health, Dr. Schulder was professor and vice chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey–New Jersey Medical School. He was the director of Image Guided Neurosurgery and the co-director of the Stereotactic Radiosurgery Center at University Hospital. Dr. Schulder received his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in 1982. He completed his residency training in neurosurgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center and subsequently was a fellow in stereotactic neuro-oncology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital of Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Schulder is past president of the American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery; past co-president of the Intraoperative Imaging Society; past president of the Section on History of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and currently president of the World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Neurological Surgeons and the Society of Neurological Surgeons. He previously served as the editor of AANS Neurosurgeon from 2010-2017. Dr. Schulder is widely published, and an editorial board member of several leading neurosurgical peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Schulder has received the Leonard Tow Award for Humanism in Medicine and has been elected to the Gold Humanism Honors Society. He has been named as one of the top doctors in the New York metropolitan area annually for over a decade.