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Jamie Ullman, MD, FAANS, FACS

Professor
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Glen Head, New York, United States

Biography

Jamie S. Ullman, MD, FAANS, FACS is Board Certified in Neurological Surgery and a Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. She currently serves as the Director of Neurotrauma and the Director of Quality Improvement for the Northwell Health Department of Neurosurgery.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Ullman was raised in New Jersey and attended Rutgers University where she was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. She graduated with a Bachelors of Arts degree with Honors in Zoology. She then attended the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Post-graduate training took her back to New York where she completed her neurosurgery residency at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine with fellowship training in neurotrauma at the University of Maryland, Shock Trauma Center, and neurosurgery critical care at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She remained on faculty at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine for 17 years, serving as the Director of Neurosurgery at Elmhurst Hospital Center, Mount Sinai’s Level I trauma affiliate. In 2014 she joined the Department of Neurosurgery Hofstra/Northwell.

Dr. Ullman is a past president of Women in Neurosurgery. She served as Vice President of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), an 8000-member national and international neurosurgical society; she is the first woman to be elected to an officer’s position in the organization’s 60+-year history. Dr. Ullman is also served as the Chair of AANS/CNS Section on Neurotrauma and Critical Care. In addition, Dr. Ullman is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and served as chief of the neurosurgery subspecialty group of the prestigious ACS Committee on Trauma as well as a 6-year term on the Board of Governors. She was appointed by the Commissioner of Health to serve as the neurosurgeon member of the New York State Trauma Advisory Committee.

Dr. Ullman has, on many occasions, presented neurotrauma topics and papers regionally, nationally, and internationally. She is a co-author on the Brain Trauma Foundation’s 3rd and 4th Edition of the Guidelines for the Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. and the co-editor of the Atlas of Emergency Neurosurgery, published by Thieme in 2015. She currently serves on the Board of the Brain Injury Association of New York and is the Board Chair of ThinkFirst, the neurosurgery injury prevention organization. She is proud to be a newly elected member of the Society of Neurological Surgeons and has served as a member of the CAST Neurocritical Care Subspecialty review committee as well as a section editor for the SNS Essential Neurosurgery for Medical Students Supplement.

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