When Brazilian neurosurgeon Jose Nasser felt numbness on one side of his face, he hoped it was a minor nerve problem and that it would go away quickly. But he decided to have an MRI done just in case. The MRI showed that Dr. Nasser had an acoustic neuroma, a tumor...
Top Reasons to Choose Dr. Sisti
Thirty-year career in the highest rated
Department of Neurosurgery at Columbia
University Irving Medical Center
Pioneered many surgical and technical advances, including the first non-invasive
radio surgery program in New York.
radio surgery program
Dr. Sisti is most proud of the direct professional and personal influence he has on hundreds of medical students, neurosurgery residents, and young neurosurgeons that he has mentored and encouraged throughout their careers.
Dr. Sisti employs technical excellence with state of the art computer guided microneurosurgery and
Gamma Knife radiosurgery
Provides superior personal care
to his patients and their family members
Areas of deep,
special expertise
backed up by publications
Neurosurgery
Surgery
Brain & Spinal Tumors
Acoustic Neuroma
Adult Trauma
Biopsies
Colloid Cyst of Third Ventricle
Craniopharyngioma Surgery
Gamma Knife
Glioblastoma Multiforme
Gliomas
Dr. Michael Sisti’s Patient Lives Olympic Dream
It has been a few years since we shared the inspiring story of the olympian Josephine Pucci. And now, with the 2018 Winter Olympics underway in South Korea, we thought, what better time to put her story front and center once again. Before we do, we'd like to give you...
Dr. Sisti’s Patient ‘In Great Hands’
When Jodie Leitner went to a routine checkup in the fall of 2014, she told her doctor she had been having unusual headaches. “I had had sinus headaches in the past,” she says, “and these headaches were different.” So her doctor sent her for an MRI. The MRI showed a...
A Patient Surprises Dr. Sisti With a Gift No Money Can Buy
The gifts that move us, tug at our hearts, come when we least expect them and, in an instant, remind us of what’s important. Looking at the gift-wrapped box from his patient, Dr. Michael B. Sisti of Columbia Neurosurgery, didn’t know what the contents could be....