Director of Neurosurgery
NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst
Elmhurst, New York, United States
Zachary L. Hickman, MD, is a board-certified neurosurgeon and Director of Neurosurgery at NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst, a Level 1 Trauma Center in Queens, New York, and Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Dr. Hickman completed a post-graduate fellowship in Neurotrauma and Neurocritical Care at Jackson Memorial Hospital and Ryder Trauma Center at the University of Miami Medical Center, under the directorship of M. Ross Bullock, MD, PhD. Dr. Hickman obtained his MD at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and completed his neurosurgery residency at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.
Dr. Hickman serves on the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Neurotrauma and Critical Care Executive Committee, the Medical Society for the State of New York's Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response Committee, and is co-founder and current President of the New York Neurotrauma Consoritum (NYNC), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization of healthcare professionals with a shared interest in neurotrauma advocacy, research, and education in New York State. Dr. Hickman’s clinical and research interests include traumatic brain and spine injury, neurocritical care, intracranial multimodality monitoring, general neurosurgery, patient-oriented outcomes research, international neurosurgery, and quality improvement.
Dr. Hickman has been published in a variety of scholarly peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery, Neurocritical Care, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, and Stroke.
(PC2201) Practical Clinic: Case-based Management of Traumatic Brain Injuries
Friday, April 21, 2023
8:00am – 4:30pm PST
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose