Overview
Dr. Saris is a neurosurgeon in the Department of Neurosurgery and the Director in our Brigham and Women’s/Mass General Health Care Center at Foxborough. He is also a Lecturer in Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School.Dr. Saris has been a neurosurgeon since the late 1970s and has endeavored to become the best neurosurgeon he can be in that time. He is motivated by the necessity to keep pace with the lightening fast changes in the neurosurgery field. He notes that the change in the practice neurosurgery from the time he practices after leaving Duke University in 1985 is nearly unrecognizable to his practice approaches today. This growth with the field of neurosurgery has allowed him to take the best care of patients possible.Dr. Saris followed a long physician line in his family by entering the realm of medicine. In addition to joking that it is in his blood, he yearns to help those in need. He chose the field of neurosurgery after completing a bout of rotating internships and was moved by the pulsation of the brain, the high-tech imaging and the almost immediate correction of a problem after microsurgery that neurosurgery encompassed.Dr. Saris’s clinical practice is focused on degenerative spinal problems people experience as they get older such as herniated disks and stenosis. He has niche interests in trigeminal neuralgia and stereotactic radiosurgery. Dr. Saris’s research involves experimental treatments for facial pain. He is a member of a collaborative group investigating the use of stereotactic radiosurgery for this purpose.
Dr. Saris is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Sciatica. His top areas of expertise are Trigeminal Neuralgia, Neuralgia, Pallister-Hall Syndrome, Microdiscectomy, and Herniated Disc Surgery.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 1 peer reviewed article. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years.
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Locations
1153 Centre Street, Suite 5, South Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
60 Fenwood Road, 1st Floor Hale Building For Transformative Medicine, Boston, MA 02115
200 Copeland Drive, Mansfield, MA 02048
211 Park Street, Sturdy Memorial Hospital, Attleboro, MA 02703
Additional Areas of Focus
Dr. Saris has provided the following conditions as areas of focus. Please note that we may not have enough data to validate their experience in some of these conditions.
Clinical Research
Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.
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Areas of Expertise
MediFind evaluates expertise by pulling from factors such as number of articles a doctor has published in medical journals, participation in clinical trials, speaking at industry conferences, prescribing and referral patterns, and strength of connections with other experts in their field.
Learn more about MediFind’s expert tiers
- Distinguished
- Trigeminal NeuralgiaDr. Saris isDistinguished. Learn about Trigeminal Neuralgia.
- Experienced
- Cervical Disc SurgeryDr. Saris isExperienced. Learn about Cervical Disc Surgery.
- Cervical MyelopathyDr. Saris isExperienced. Learn about Cervical Myelopathy.
- Cervical SpondylosisDr. Saris isExperienced. Learn about Cervical Spondylosis.
- ChondromaDr. Saris isExperienced. Learn about Chondroma.
- Choroid Plexus PapillomaDr. Saris isExperienced. Learn about Choroid Plexus Papilloma.
- Congenital Cardiovascular ShuntDr. Saris isExperienced. Learn about Congenital Cardiovascular Shunt.