Dr. John M. Abrahams

Dr. John Abrahams is a member of Brain and Spine Surgeons of New York, Co-Director of Spine Surgery at The Orthopedic and Spine Institute, and Chief of Neurosurgery at Northern Westchester Hospital. He graduated from Le Moyne College with a degree in Physics and Chemistry and completed a Master s Degree in Biomedical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Abrahams received his medical degree from New York Medical College and completed his surgical internship at New York University Medical Center. He completed his residency in neurological surgery at the University of Pennsylvania and finished a spine fellowship and a research fellowship at the Institute for Medicine and Engineering at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.Dr. Abrahams practice focuses significantly on complex spine and brain disorders. He is the author of numerous patents, has authored over 30 publications in peer-reviewed journals and textbooks, and given lectures at many national and local meetings. Dr. Abrahams has founded two biomedical device companies to develop new treatments for specific aspects of both brain and spine surgery. In 2009, he founded the Westchester Neuroscience Research Foundation in an effort to improve awareness to spinal cord and brain injury, malignant brain tumors, and neuromodulation.

Dr. Abrahams is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Chronic Subdural Hematoma. His top areas of expertise are Spinal Stenosis, Spondylolisthesis, Cervical Myelopathy, Microdiscectomy, and Herniated Disc Surgery.

His clinical research consists of co-authoring 7 peer reviewed articles and participating in 1 clinical trial. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years.