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Aaron Cohen-Gadol, MD

Neurosurgeon
Indiana University/The Neurosurgical Atlas
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol (Cohen) is a professor at the Department of Neurosurgery, the Director of Neurosurgical Oncology and its fellowship, and Co-director of the Signature Center for Brain and Neurological Tumors at Indiana University. He also is the founder and president of The Neurosurgical Atlas (www.neurosurgicalatlas.com), the world’s leading educational resource for microsurgical techniques.

Dr. Cohen performed his undergraduate and medical school studies at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Southern California, respectively. He then completed his residency training at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He also completed fellowship training in two subspecialties, epilepsy surgery (Yale University) and skull base/cerebrovascular surgery (University of Arkansas). Dr. Cohen has a Masters Degree in Clinical Research from Mayo Graduate School and an MBA from the Kelley School of Business.

His areas of interest include surgical treatment of complex intracranial tumors and vascular lesions. His clinical research interests include neurosurgical operative anatomy using virtual reality and advanced three-dimensional modeling, innovative operative approaches to deep lesions, and intraoperative fluorescence/mass spectroscopy. His basic science research is focused on novel drug therapies for glioblastoma. He has published more than 520 publications on the aforementioned topics. He is also the Associate Editor-in-Chief for Neurosurgical Focus and a member of the American Academy of Neurological Surgery. He was also elected as a member-at-large for the Board of Directors of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.

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