Experience
Fellowship:
Fellowship in Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery, Department of Neurological Surgery, OHSU, Portland, Oregon
Residency:
Residency in Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, UIC, Chicago, IL
Residency in Neurosurgery in Department of Neurosurgery of the Central Institute of Post-Graduate Training of Physicians, Moscow, USSR
Education
Medical School:
Azerbaijan State Medical Institute, Baku, Azerbaijan,
Graduated with Diploma with Excellence
Certification
Board Certified:
American Board of Neurological Surgery
Medical Licensure:
Illinois
Indiana
Appointments
Clinical:
- Chief of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Section,
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Director, Illinois Gamma Knife Center, Elk Grove Village, IL
- National Parkinson’s Foundation Center of Excellence, Chicago, IL
Hospital:
- University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center
- Alexian Brothers Medical Center, Elk Grove Village, IL
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Clinical Interests
- Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
- Facial Pain, Trigeminal Neuralgia
- Gamma Knife Stereotactic Radiosurgery
Research Interests
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Facial Pain
- Dystonia and other movement disorders
- Surgical management of pain
- Deep brain stimulation therapy
- Chiari malformation
Awards/Achievements
- Secretary-Treasurer, American Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
- Executive Council Member, Joint Section of Pain of AANS and CNS
- President, Russian-American Medical Association
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