Shabbar Danish, MD, FAANS is a board-certified neurosurgeon and Chair of Neurosurgery at Jersey Shore University Medical Center. In this role Dr. Danish works to enhance and expand services for adults needing neurosurgical care, especially for patients with brain and spine tumors, Parkinson’s and other movement disorders, epilepsy, and facial pain.   

Dr. Danish has more than 13 years of experience providing care for patients, specializing in craniotomy, MRI guided laser therapy, deep brain stimulation, resection for epilepsy, neuromodulation for epilepsy, microvascular decompression, and laminectomy for resection of spinal tumors. Dr. Danish has pioneered techniques for deep brain stimulation and MRI guided laser therapy for inoperable brain tumors, making him an internationally renowned expert.

He joins us today to speak about how laser interstitial thermal therapy is a potent tool for epilepsy treatment.