Robert R. Goodman, MD

Neurosurgeon

My unique training and experience has allowed me to develop highly advanced procedures that give patients a wider range of less invasive treatment options.

Overview

A pioneer who helped develop modern treatments for epilepsy, Dr. Goodman established one of the first multidisciplinary epilepsy centers in New York City (while at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center) and now works with experienced neurologists to offer the same advanced care in New Jersey. He has advanced fellowship training in epilepsy surgery from the Montreal Neurological Institute and has spent more than 30 years caring for patients. In addition to epilepsy, Dr. Goodman’s expertise includes the treatment of general neurosurgical conditions (including spinal conditions), trigeminal neuralgia, hemifacial spasm, normal pressure hydrocephalus, brain tumors, tremors and Parkinson’s disease.

Dr. Goodman enjoys treating all types of movement disorders and other neurological conditions, but he finds the surgical treatment of epilepsy particularly rewarding. His dedication to this less common neurosurgical subspecialty enables him to give patients the latest, less invasive treatment options that can often cure their epilepsy.

Biographical Highlights

Medical School

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Residency

Neurological Institute of New York at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center

Advanced Fellowship Training

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Department of Neurology; Visiting Clinical Fellow: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Department of Neurological Surgery; Fellowship: Epilepsy Surgery, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital

Dr. Goodman is dedicated to advancing neurosurgical knowledge among his fellow neurosurgeons and physicians in training. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts and publications and has served on the treatments committee of the American Epilepsy Society. He has also served as a clinical associate professor at various medical schools, including Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York University School of Medicine, and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Top Doctor, Castle Connolly: Perennial Recipient
The Harvey Nova Resident’s Award, Department of Neurological Surgery, The Neurological Institute of New York: 1988
The New York Society of Neurosurgery Resident Research Award: 1987
NIH Medical Scientist Training Award: 1978-1982
Phi Beta Kappa: 1976

Clara Maass Medical Center
Hackensack University Medical Center
Holy Name Medical Center
Lenox Hill Hospital
Saint Barnabas Medical Center

AANS/CNS Joint Section on Pain
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Association of Neurological Surgeons
American College of Surgeons
American Epilepsy Society
American Medical Association
American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
Congress of Neurological Surgeons
Medical Society of the State of New York
New Jersey Neurosurgical Society
New York State Neurosurgical Society
Society for Neuroscience

Epilepsy Team Implants Neurostimulator System in Patient at White Plains Hospital

Hamberger MJ, McClelland S 3rd, McKhann GM 2nd, Williams AC, Goodman RR. Distribution of auditory and visual naming sites in nonlesional temporal lobe epilepsy patients and patients with space-occupying temporal lobe lesions. Epilepsia. 2007;48(3):531-8. PMID: 17326797
Choi H, Sell RL, Lenert L, Muennig P, Goodman RR, Gilliam FG, Wong JB. Epilepsy surgery for pharmacoresistant temporal lobe epilepsy: a decision analysis. JAMA. 2008;300(21):2497-505. PMID: 19050193
Waziri A, Schevon CA, Cappell J, Emerson RG, McKhann GM 2nd, Goodman RR. Initial surgical experience with a dense cortical microarray in epileptic patients undergoing craniotomy for subdural electrode implantation. Neurosurgery. 2009;64(3):540-545. PMID: 19240617
Geller EB, Skarpaas TL, Gross RE, Goodman RR, Barkley GL, Bazil CW, Berg MJ, Bergey GK, Cash SS, Cole AJ, Duckrow RB, Edwards JC, Eisenschenk S, Fessler J, Fountain NB, Goldman AM, Gwinn RP, Heck C, Herekar A, Hirsch LJ, Jobst BC, King-Stephens D, Labar DR, Leiphart JW, Marsh WR, Meador KJ, Mizrahi EM, Murro AM, Nair DR, Noe KH, Park YD, Rutecki PA, Salanova V, Sheth RD, Shields DC, Skidmore C, Smith MC, Spencer DC, Srinivasan S, Tatum W, Van Ness PC, Vossler DG, Wharen RE Jr, Worrell GA, Yoshor D, Zimmerman RS, Cicora K, Sun FT, Morrell MJ. Brain-responsive neurostimulation in patients with medically intractable mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsia. 2017;58(6):994-1004. PMID: 28398014
Jobst BC, Kapur R, Barkley GL, Bazil CW, Berg MJ, Bergey GK, Cash SS, Cole AJ, Duchowny MS, Duckrow RB, Edwards JC, Eisenschenk S, Fessler J, Fountain NB, Geller EB, Goldman AM, Goodman RR, Gross RE, Gwinn RP, Heck C, Herekar A, Hirsch LJ, , King-Stephens D, Labar DR, Marsh WR, Meador KJ, Miller I, Mizrahi EM, Murro AM, Nair DR, Noe KH, Olejniczak PW, Park YD, Rutecki PA, Salanova V, Sheth RD, Skidmore C, Smith MC, Spencer DC, Srinivasan S, Tatum W, Van Ness PC, Vossler DG, Wharen RE Jr, Worrell GA, Yoshor D, Zimmerman RS, Skarpaas TL, Morrell MJ. Brain-responsive neurostimulation in patients with medically intractable seizures arising from eloquent and other neocortical areas. Epilepsia. 2017;58(6):1005-1014. PMID: 28387951
Goodman RR. Reoperation for Medically Refractory Epilepsy; in Epilepsy: A Comprehensive Textbook, ed. by Jerome Engel, Jr and Timothy A. Pedley, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2008.
Surgery for Parkinson’s Disease, ed. by Robert R. Goodman, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Switzerland, 2019