Elad Levy

Levy served as an invited Guest Examiner for Oral Examinations for the American Board of Neurosurgeons in 2014, 2016, 2017, and in 2018 became Director. He has trained several physicians from all around the globe, and chaired the 2014 Scientific Program and the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.

In later years, Levy also completed his Master of Business Administration at Northeastern University and graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2013.

In 2011 Levy founded and is currently the president for the Program for Understanding Childhood Concussion & Stroke (PUCCS), to date this organization has raised over $750,000 which is aimed towards promoting research and preventing concussions in all sports. In 2013 he became the unaffiliated National Football League (NFL) Neurotrauma consultant for the Buffalo Bills. In 2017 he was appointed as one of 12 National Directors to the American Board of Neurological Surgeons. In 2018 he was appointed Secretary to the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Executive Committee and also appointed to the Ethics Committee for the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. He is also the Director of Stroke Research and Director of Endovascular Stroke Treatment and Research at the Department of Neurosurgery, SUNY at Buffalo, Co-Director of Kaleida Health Stroke Center at the Gates Vascular Institute, and Co-Director of Cerebrovascular Surgery at the Department of Neurosurgery, SUNY at Buffalo. In 2020 Levy received his appointment as Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo due to his prolific contributions to research, innovation, leadership and academia.

In 2010, Levy was promoted to the title of Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiology becoming one of the youngest tenured professors in the SUNY system. Subsequently, in 2013 when Dr. L. Nelson Hopkins retired as the Chair of Neurosurgery, Levy rapidly emerged as the top candidate among several candidates across the nation, demonstrating the administrative, scientific, clinical, leadership and visionary skills necessary for the growth of the department. Since becoming the Chairman at University at Buffalo, Neurosurgery, Levy has recruited some of the best trained young neurosurgeons and more than doubled the size of the faculty. Leading by example, he promoted the academic productivity of the department, which secured a top 5 ranking for endovascular neurosurgery.

Levy started his academic and professional career as an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiology at the State University of New York (SUNy) at Buffalo in 2004. The following year in 2005, he became the Director for Stroke Research, and Co-Director of Cerebrovascular Surgery at the Department of Neurosurgery, SUNY at Buffalo. He was also appointed as Co-Director of Kaleida Health Stroke Center and the Director of Endovascular Stroke Treatment and Research in 2006. He also served as the Endovascular Fellowship Program Director for the Department of Neurosurgery, SUNY at Buffalo from 2006 to 2013.

Following graduation in 1997, Levy began his surgical internships and training in neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh, one of the highest volume programs in the country. As a young intern, he quickly learned the importance of innovation and the obligation to push the field forward for better care of neurosurgical patients. Following in the footsteps of Dr. Peter Jannetta, the “father of microvascular decompression,” and Dr. Dade Lunsford, who introduced Gamma-knife radiosurgery to the University of Pittsburgh, Levy pursued minimally invasive endovascular neurosurgery by spending 2 years of his residency in Buffalo, as a fellow under Dr. L. Nelson Hopkins, the “father of neurointerventional surgery". He completed his fellowship training in 2003 and returned to Pittsburgh to finish his residency training in 2004.

Levy went to Dartmouth College to study molecular biology and biochemistry. He began medical school in 1993 at The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences in Washington, D.C., where he became interested in Orthopedic Surgery. However, when he did not secure the summer orthopedic internship after his freshman year, he chose to do a summer research project with Dr. Laligam Sekhar, the Chairman of Neurosurgery at George Washington University at the time, since then neurosurgery became his focus.

During his time at Choate Rosemary Hall he became interested in rowing, which eventually became his passion and earned him a roster spot on the Division I rowing team at Darthmouth College where he was an Oarsman between the years 1989–1993. During this time he also won 2 gold medals at the Maccabiah Games in 1990 and joined the U.S. Junior National Rowing team in 1991. He was also awarded the Woodhead award for grit. Dr. Levy also frequently takes part in marathons and half iron man competitions across the country.

Levy was born in Tiberias, Israel in 1972. His father went to medical school in Italy, where Dr. Levy learned to speak Italian, in addition to English in school and Hebrew at home. At the age of seven, he immigrated to the United States. After his father's residency training in obstetrics and gynecology in New York City, his family settled in rural northern upstate New York close to Montreal, where his dad joined a solo Obstetrics and gynecology practice. Growing up, Levy spent his summers with his father's family in Israel. Dr. Levy went onto attend local schools before his last two years of High School, which he spent at Choate Rosemary Hall, a private boarding school in Wallingford, Connecticut.