Theodore H. Schwartz, MD is the David and Ursel Barnes Endowed Professor of Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery at Weill Cornell Medicine, one of the busiest and highest-ranked neurosurgery centers in the world. He has published over five hundred scientific articles and chapters on neurosurgery and has lectured around the world—from Bogotá to Vienna to Mumbai—on new, minimally invasive surgical techniques that he helped develop. He also runs a basic science laboratory devoted to epilepsy research. He studied philosophy and literature at Harvard.

WHY THEY’RE JOINING US

In the words of neurosurgeon and CNN Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta, “If you are at all curious about the brain or the surgeons who operate on it, Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery is a must-read and Dr. Theodore H. Schwartz is the perfect guide, a master brain surgeon and superbly talented writer. I have not read a better biography of our shared profession, and in Schwartz’s talented hands, the most enigmatic 3½ pounds of tissue in the known universe comes to light in remarkable and revelatory ways.” Reading Dr. Schwartz, and hearing him speak, is like being in the presence of a remarkably articulate astronaut reporting back from the moon, whose mysteries he encounters every day.

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