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 The University of Virginia Health System is a leader in Gamma Knife Surgery (GKS). Since 1989, the UVa Gamma Knife Center has treated more than 6000 patients from 54 other countries and every state in the U.S. Dr. Ladislau Steiner, Dr. Neal Kassell, and Dr. Jason Sheehan offer unsurpassed experience in radiosurgery. That experience, coupled with the latest Gamma Knife technology, offers our patients the best chance of a successful result.
Consider the following facts about radiosurgery at the University of Virginia:
- Professor Ladislau Steiner, M.D., Ph.D., the director of the Lars Leksell Gamma Knife Center, was a trusted associate of Gamma Knife developer Dr. Lars Leksell and was involved closley in the development of the Gamma Knife and its clinical applications.
- UVa is a leader in Gamma Knife Surgery. The original Gamma unit was the fifth in the world and only the second in the United States. There are now more than 200 Gamma Knife units around the world.
- In 2001, the UVa center upgraded to the Model C Gamma Knife. This new model, with a robotic automatic positioning system (APS), provides the patient the most comfortable and shortest treatment session possible.
- The UVa team also includes Dr. Neal Kassell, an expert in neurovascular surgery and inovator in the Gamma Knife treatment of arteriovenous malformations.
- Dr. Jason Sheehan, co-director of the Gamma Knife Center, is fellowship-trained in stereotactic radiosurgery and has worked with Dr. Steiner and Drs. L. Dade Lunsford, Douglas Kondziolka and John Flickinger at the University of Pittsburgh.
- Together, Drs. Steiner, Kassell and Sheehan have taught numerous neurosurgeons and radiation oncologists in the technique of radiosurgery. Many of these students have gone on to start radiosurgical centers in other parts of the world.
- UVa specialists in neurosurgery, neuroradiology, endocrinology,
 anesthesiology, neuro-ophthalmology, neuro-otology, radiation oncology and medical physics work as an integrated team to provide comprehensive care to our patients. Pioneering work in Gamma surgery has been performed here for arteriovenous malformations, pituitary adenomas, brain metastases and trigeminal neuralgia.
Patients have come from all over the world to be treated by our world-class physicians in our world-class facilities:
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