Isabelle M. Germano

Isabelle Germano (Isabelle M. Germano), M.D. is a neurosurgeon and Tenured Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Oncological Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, in New York City. She is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. She is also an author. Germano has worked in image-guided brain and spine surgery.

Education and post-doctoral training

After an undergraduate education with concentration in Latin and Ancient Greek Literature, in 1984 Germano graduated from the University of Turin Medical School with a graduate thesis in neuro-pathology, where she also completed a neurology residency. Germano completed her surgical internship at the University of California San Francisco and neurosurgery residency at University of California San Francisco and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. During her residency she obtained training in epilepsy surgery under dr. Gazi Yasargil and H. Gregor Wieser at the University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland. After her Chief resident year, she completed a fellowship in epilepsy surgery, stereotaxy, and movement disorders under Dr. André Olivier at Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Canada. In 1995, Germano was certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery (ABNS).

Professional career

Germano joined the neurosurgery faculty at Mount Sinai in 1992 to develop the brain tumor and stereotactic clinical programs, where at Mount Sinai Hospital she is the Director of the Comprehensive Tumor Program and Co-director of the Radiosurgery Program. She has worked in the field of image-guided brain and spine surgery developing new technology for several years and for the last 10 years directed a practical course for neurosurgeons around the world to teach about it until it become standard-of-care. These technological advances are used to perform minimally invasive surgery for patients with brain tumors, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, movement disorders, and spine disease or tumors. Germano established a basic science laboratory within the Department of Neurosurgery to focus on brain tumors translational research with particular emphasis on gene therapy, stem cells, and induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSC).

A member in many neurosurgery societies and an author, she has served as an Executive Committee member for the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), as a Board of Directors member for the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, as an Executive Committee member of the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Tumors, as a scientific program member for the AANS, CNS, and the American Epilepsy Society (AES), and she is Past-president of Women in Neurosurgery (WINS). Germano’s clinical interests include newly diagnosed or recurrent brain and spine tumors, including primary brain tumors, metastatic brain tumors, brain tumors in eloquent areas, brain mapping and monitoring, gliomas, metastasis, meningiomas, brain and spine radiosurgery, epilepsy surgery, and problems of the cervical and lumbar spine.

Germano has written several articles and papers, which can be found at Isabelle Germano; Microsoft Academia Search.

Germano has written several articles and papers, which can be found at Isabelle M. Germano - Google Scholar

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