Dr. Stephen Saris, MD is a neurosurgery specialist in Providence, RI and has been practicing for 29 years. He graduated from Boston University School Of Medicine in 1979 and specializes in neurosurgery and neurological spine surgery.Read his story
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Herniated Disc
high
more than 80% of peers
Intervertebral Disc Disease
normal
more than 75% of peers
Meningiomas
normal
more than 66% of peers
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Dr. Saris' bio
This content was provided by Dr. Saris "Dr. Saris is the most senior, active neurosurgeon in Rhode Island. He began his training with a surgical internship in 1979 at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. The Beth Israel is a major teaching hospital of the Harvard Medical School. After exposure to the various surgical subspecialties, he decided to pursue a career in Neurosurgery. Dr. Saris completed his Neurosurgical residency at Duke Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina in 1985. He completed two fellowships prior to entering clinical practice. The first was at the Massachusetts General Hospital during which he studied under such internationally-known surgeons as Drs. Robert Ojemann, Peter Black, and Nicholas Zervas. His second was a four-year fellowship doing research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Saris has written dozens of papers dealing with subjects ranging from spinal disorders to the diagnosis of pituitary tumors to novel treatments of malignant brain tumors. After this fellowship, he became an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the Tufts Medical Center in Boston that is the main teaching hospital of the Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Saris spent four years at NEMC during which time he was promoted from an Assistant to an Associate Professor. He continued his research interest in brain tumors with the creation of a research laboratory. In 1993, he joined the faculty at the Brown University School of Medicine. He took a position as an Associate Professor, and soon thereafter assumed the acting Directorship of the New England Gamma Knife Center. Dr. Saris was the Director of the Brain Tumor Program at Brown University for many years and was Co-Chair of the Neuro-Oncology Committee of the Brown University Oncology Group. He additionally was Brown's principal investigator for a National Institutes of Health study looking at spine metastases. He is currently the author of over 25 refereed, scientific articles, in addition to five textbook chapters, and numerous abstracts. For many years he was on the Neurosurgery Sub-committee of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group and Neuro-Oncology Co-Chair of the Brown University Oncology Group. In 1999, Dr. Saris left academic medicine to create a private neurosurgical group of his own and to take the Chair Position in Neurosurgery at St. Joseph's Hospital in Providence. He has been voted by other physicians in the state as a Top Doc since 1996 by Rhode Island Magazine."
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2 Specialties
- Neurosurgery
- Neurological Spine Surgery
1 Board Certifications
- NeurosurgeryAccredited by: American Board of Neurological Surgery*
17 Conditions Treated
- Acoustic Neuroma
- Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
- Cervical Spine Myelopathy
- Chiari's Deformity
- Degenerative Disc Disease
- Fracture
- Herniated Disc
- Hydrocephalus
- Intervertebral Disc Disease
- Meningiomas
- Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
- Spinal Cord Tumor
- Spinal Stenosis
- Spondylolisthesis
- Subdural Hemorrhage
- Thoracic Spine Fracture
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
11 Procedures
- Brain Surgery
- Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Shunt - Insertion, Repair or Removal
- Craniectomy, Craniotomy, Surgery of Skull Base, Neuroendoscopy
- CyberKnife®, Cranial (Stereotactic Radiosurgery, Cranial) incl. Gamma Knife and LINAC Photon Beam
- Herniated Disc Surgery
- Neuroplasty
- Spinal Compression Fracture Repair
- Spinal Fusion
- Spine Fracture Treatment
- Stereotactic Radiosurgery
- Stereotactic Surgery
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0 Board Actions
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Education
- Boston University School Of MedicineUndergraduate School | Graduated 1975
- Boston University School Of MedicineMedical School | Graduated 1979
- Beth Israel Deaconess Med Ctr, Harvard UInternship Hospital | Completed 1981
- Duke University HospResidency Hospital | Completed 1985
- National Institutes Of HealthFellowship Hospital | Completed 1989
- National Institutes Of HealthOther Education | Completed 1990
Awards & Recognition
Awards & Honors
- Healthgrades Honor Roll
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Languages Spoken
- English
- Spanish
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