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 GREAT NECK, NY -- North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center today announced the appointment of Harold L. Rekate, MD, as director of the Chiari Institute within the hospitals’ Department of Neurosurgery chaired by Raj Narayan, MD. Dr. Rekate comes to North Shore-LIJ from the nationally renowned Barrow Neurological Institute, part of St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ.
Dr. Rekate, who will assume his new position on February 25th, leads the activities of the Chiari Institute, part of the North Shore-LIJ Health System’s Cushing Neuroscience Institutes. The Chiari Institute, based in Great Neck, NY, is the world's first comprehensive, multidisciplinary center for the management of patients suffering from Chiari malformation, a rare structural condition that affects the posterior part of the brain where it connects with the spinal cord. The Chiari Institute also treats patients with syringomyelia, a chronic disease of the spinal cord, and related disorders. The focus of the practice at the Chiari Institute will be expanded to include other congenital neurosurgical problems.
“At the NS-LIJ Cushing Neuroscience Institutes we are committed to recruiting world class neurosurgical talent. Dr. Rekate brings to our city a wealth of expertise in the management of congenital neurosurgical issues, including surgery for Chiari malformations, hydrocephalus, pseudotumor cerebri, spina bifida, craniofacial disorders and brain tumors,” said Dr. Narayan, chairman of neurosurgery at North Shore-LIJ and director of the Cushing Neuroscience Institutes. “A renowned expert in the field of neurosurgery, Dr. Rekate is also actively involved in the multidisciplinary care of adults and children with various craniofacial abnormalities. As such, Dr. Rekate’s expertise in the care of adults and children with a wide array of neurosurgical anomalies, will take the Chiari Institute to another level of clinical excellence.”
Prior to joining North Shore-LIJ, Dr. Rekate served as chairman of pediatric neurosciences and chief of pediatric neurosurgery for more than 25 years at the Barrow Neurological Institute (BNI). While at BNI, Dr. Rekate was a clinical professor of neurosurgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.
Dr. Rekate completed his undergraduate studies at Duke University and received his medical degree at the Medical College of Virginia. He trained in neurosurgery and pediatric neurosurgery at the University Hospitals of Cleveland and completed his
residency training at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Rekate is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery and the American Board of Pediatric Neurological Surgery. He will join the faculty of the new Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine http://medicine.hofstra.edu/ as professor of neurosurgery – the inaugural class of medical students begins in August 2011.
A widely published author of more than 200 publications, most of which are related to cerebrospinal fluid difficulties, including Chiari malformations, syringomyelia and hydrocephalus, Dr. Rekate also served as editor for a number of prestigious medical journals and was chairman of the editorial board of the Journal of Neurosurgery Pediatrics. Over the course of his career, Dr. Rekate has done extensive research regarding spinal fluid flow, receiving funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He also has held many local, national and international positions, including chairman of the Joint Section on Pediatric Neurological Surgery of the American Association of Neurological Surgery and the Congress of Neurological Surgery, and president of the American Society of Pediatric Neurological Surgeons and the International Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery. Dr. Rekate has received numerous awards and honors, including the prestigious Pudenz Award of Excellence in Research in Cerebrospinal Fluid Physiology.
For more information about North Shore-LIJ’s Chiari Institute, call 516-570-4400
About the Cushing Neuroscience Institutes (CNI)
The Cushing Neuroscience Institutes of the North Shore-LIJ Health System consist of multidisciplinary clinical and research teams that provide patients with state-of-the-art treatments for the entire spectrum of neurological diseases, including brain aneurysms, AVM’s, stroke, traumatic brain injury, movement disorders, brain and spinal cord tumors, diseases of the spine, muscle and peripheral nerves, Chiari malformation, syringomyelia, neurodegenerative diseases, pain, epilepsy, and neurological diseases of infancy and childhood.
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