Neurosurgery Highlights

Zulma Tovar-Spinoza, MD Joins the Department of Neurosurgery

Upstate University Health System and Neurosurgical Associates of Central New York, LLP are very pleased to announce that Zulma Tovar-Spinoza, MD has joined the staff of Upstate Medical University as Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery. At Upstate, Dr. Tovar-Spinoza's clinical practice will focus on pediatric neurosurgery at the new Golisano Children's Hospital.

After receiving her MD, with honors, from the Universidad de los Andes in Merida Venezuela, Dr. Tovar-Spinoza completed her residency requirements in surgery and trauma at the Universidad de los Andes. She finished her neurosurgical residency at Rabin Medical Center, University of Tel Aviv in Israel. Most recently, Dr. Tovar-Spinoza completed fellowship training in pediatric neurosurgery and pediatric epilepsy at the internationally-renowned Hospital for Sick Children at the University of Toronto in Canada.

Dr. Tovar-Spinoza, who is broadly published, has neuroscience research interests in pediatric epilepsy surgery and pediatric brain tumors.