Dr. Carl Barnes Heilman M.D.
Neurosurgeon
750 Washington St T-Nemc #178 Neurosur Boston MA, 02111About
Carl Heilman, MD, is the Neurosurgeon-in-Chief at Tufts Medical Center and the Chairman of Neurosurgery and an associate professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. Internationally renowned for ...
Education and Training
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania 1986
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Nasofrontal dermoid sinus cyst: report of two cases.
- Transient choroid plexus cysts and benign asymmetrical ventricles: a case suggesting a possible link: case report.
- Complication avoidance in the treatment of malignant tumors of the skull base.
- Repair of the dura mater with processed collagen devices.
- Low complication rates of cranial and craniofacial approaches to midline anterior skull base lesions.
- Images in clinical medicine. Combined-system disease.
- Transverse dorsal arachnoid web and syringomyelia: case report.
- Ventricular access device versus ventriculosubgaleal shunt in post hemorrhagic hydrocephalus associated with prematurity.
- Pneumocephalus: case illustrations and review.
- Temporal craniotomy for surgical access to the infratemporal fossa.
- Postoperative temporalis muscle atrophy and the use of electrocautery: a volumetric MRI comparison.
- Complete endoscopic removal of colloid cyst using a nitinol basket retriever.
- Hemangiopericytomas of the skull base.
- Gastrointestinal prophylaxis in neurocritical care.
- Spontaneous resolution of a Chiari malformation Type I and syrinx after supratentorial craniotomy for excision of a cavernous malformation.
Awards
- 2012-2013 Top Doctor, Boston Magazine
- 2011 Boston Super Doctors
- 2012 Top Doctor and in top 1% in the nation in his specialty, U.S. News &
- Society of University Neurosurgeons 2007 President
- 2010 President, Boston Society of Neurology and Psychiatry
Treatments
- Meningioma, Skull Base Surgery, Neurological Surgery And More
- Brain Tumor
- Birth Defects
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