Jeffrey A. Brown, M.D., F.A.C.S. is from Boston, Massachusetts, attended Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.  He completed his residency in neurosurgery at The University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics.  Before coming to Great Neck, New York he was Professor of Neurological Surgery on the full-time faculty at Wayne State University where he retains his research activities. Dr. Brown is also Neurosurgery Director of Winthrop University Hospital’s Cyberknife program.

Dr. Brown has published 50 articles in peer-reviewed neurosurgery journals on the treatment of chronic pain, especially facial pain, as well as in the areas of spinal vascular, tumor and trauma neurosurgery and edited a book on trigeminal neuralgia. He has been an invited speaker, workshop participant and faculty director at over 50 state, regional, national and international conferences.  In addition, he has served as one of eight elected members of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and was chairman of the Joint Section on Pain of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the two major societies representing organized neurosurgery.

Because of his long-term interest in the treatment of facial pain, he also serves on the Medical Advisory Board of the Trigeminal Neuralgia Association (TNA). Currently he is the AANS representative to the American College of Surgeons Neurosurgery Advisory Committee. Dr. Brown is listed as one of America’s Top Doctors in the 2003 and 2004 editions of the Castle Connolly Directory representing the top 1% of all physicians in the United States. He is cited for his expertise in “Pain Neurosurgical Treatment, Trigeminal Neuralgia, Pain-Chronic.”  Castle Connolly states “The physicians whose profiles are included in the Castle Connolly listings were selected after peer nominations, extensive research and careful review and screening by our physician directed research team.”

Dr. Brown is now a member of the American Heart Association’s Board of Directors for Long Island and serves on its Advisory Stroke Committee for the New York Metropolitan area in recognition of his vast experience with research into and treatment of stroke patients.