Gamma Knife Team
The referring physician is a critical partner on the Gamma Knife treatment team. All follow-up studies, treatment plans and progress outcomes are performed in conjunction with the patient's physician. Because the patient often requires long-term follow-up care, it is essential that the referring physician and Gamma Knife team maintain a close working relationship.
The Upstate Gamma Knife Team
Treatment with the Gamma Knife is planned and administered by a multidisciplinary team of specialists including: neurosurgeons, radiation oncologists, otolargyngologist, medical physicists, neuroradiologists, and nursing staff.
Walter A Hall, MD, MBA, 315 464-8824
Current Appointments
- Professor of Neurosurgery
Hospital Campus
- Downtown
Clinical Section Affiliations
- Neurosurgery: Brain Tumors, Functional, General Neurosurgery, Pituitary Disorders, Radiosurgery, Spine Disorders
- Upstate Cancer Center: Brain Tumor, Neurosurgery
- Upstate Comprehensive Stroke Center: Neurosurgery
Clinic/Unit
- Neurosurgery Clinic- Resident Clinic
Upstate University Hospital
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Suite 4835, 750 East Adams Street
Syracuse, NY 13210
315 464-1800
- Gamma Knife Center
Campus West Building (CWB)
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750 East Adams Street
Syracuse, NY 13210
315 464-8400
- Neuro Oncology Program
Upstate Cancer Center
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750 East Adams Street
Syracuse, NY 13210
315 464-3510
- Brain Tumor Program
Upstate Cancer Center
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750 East Adams Street
Syracuse, NY 13210
315 464-3510
- Upstate Brain & Spine Center
Upstate Community Hospital
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Suite 1352, 4900 Broad Road
Syracuse, NY 13215
315 464-4470
Education & Fellowships
- Residency: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA, 1990, Neurosurgery
- Internship: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA, 1984, General Surgery
- MD: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1983
Clinical Interests
- Developing new therapeutic modalities for treating brain tumors, including stereotactic radiosurgery, fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy, blood-brain barrier disruption chemotherapy and targeted toxin therapy
Research Interests
Brain tumors, targeted toxins, and central nervous system infections
Specialties & Certification
- Neurological Surgery
- Brain Tumors
- Gamma Knife
- Pituitary Tumors
- Cervical Spine
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
Diseases & Conditions Treated
- Brachial Plexus Injury
- Brachial plexopathy
- Brain Abscess
- Brain Aneurysm
- Brain Injury
- Brain Tumor
- Brain and Spine Tumors
- Cervical Radiculopathy
- Chiari Malformation
- Congenital and Developmental Malformations of the Nervous System
- Curved Spine or Scoliosis
- Hydrocephalus
- Kyphosis
- Low Back Pain
- Lumbar Stenosis
- Lumbosacral Plexopathy
- Lumbosacral Radiculopathy
- Myelopathy
- Neck Injuries
- Neck Stinger
- Nervous System Vascular Lesions
- Neuralgias
- Neuritis
- Neuroendocrine Tumors
- Neurofibromatosis
- Neuropathy
- Pituitary Disorders
- Pituitary Tumors
- Pseudotumor Cerebri
- Scoliosis
- Slipped Disk or Herniated Disk
- Spinal Cord Injury
- Spinal Fracture
- Spinal Stenosis
- Spondylolisthesis
- Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome
- Thoracic radiculopathy
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
- Ulnar neuropathy
Treats
- Adults
Treatments/Services
- Arachnoid Cyst Treatment
- Brain Tumor Treatment
- Electrical Stimulation for Pain
- Epidural/Caudal
- Fracture Treatment of Spine
- Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
- Hydrocephalus Treatment
- Kyphoplasty/Vertebroplasty
- Lumbar Puncture
- Neurosurgery for Pain
- Spinal Decompression Surgery
- Spinal Surgery
- Spine Pain Treatment
- Stereotactic Guided Radiosurgery (SRS)
- Surgical Options for Back Pain
- Surgical Repair of Congenital and Developmental Lesions of the Nervous System
- Surgical Treatment of Brain and Spine Tumors
- Surgical Treatment of Hydrocephalus
- Surgical Treatment of Stroke or Brain Ischemia
Current Hospital Privileges
- Upstate University Hospital
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