Member, AMPAC Board of Directors
Michael H. Brisman grew up in Bergen County, New Jersey, and graduated valedictorian from The Frisch High School in Paramus. He received his undergraduate degree with high honors in Biology from Harvard University and obtained his medical degree from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. He then completed a General Surgery Internship and Neurological Surgery Residency at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, where he was appointed Chief Resident in his final year of Residency. He subsequently joined a private practice neurosurgery group on Long Island, New York, where he has worked for the past 26 years. In addition to maintaining a busy clinical practice, he serves as CEO of his medical practice, NSPC Brain and Spine Surgery.
He is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgeons and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He served as the Chief of Neurosurgery at Winthrop University Hospital (now NYU Long Island Hospital) and serves as the Co-Medical director of the Gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery program at Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital. He has served as the President of the Nassau County Medical Society and President of the New York State Neurological Society. He currently serves as a delegate for the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) and the American Medical Association. He has served on the executive board of the MSSNY PAC for many years. He is the author of “Put Down The Knife: A Fresh Look at Adult Brain Surgery” (Springer, 2023), a neurosurgery textbook that emphasizes a minimally invasive and less invasive approach to brain conditions. He specializes in the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia and brain tumors and has treated thousands of patients with these conditions.
Dr. Brisman’s wife Madeline is a social worker. His older daughter Rachel is a graduate student at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, and his younger daughter Sarah is an undergraduate at NYU, and plans to be a physician.