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Bio
Dr. Vingan is a board-certified neurosurgeon and founding member of the North Jersey Brain and Spine Center. He has been in practice since 1992 and received his medical education at the State University of New York in Brooklyn and his neurosurgical training at the Kings County Hospital-Downstate Medical Center. During training, he received extensive experience with neurotrauma and neurovascular work. He has served on the Medical Board and as President of the Medical Staff at Hackensack University Medical Center. He has been an early advocate of new technologies. He was the first, or among the first, to locally introduce the use of frameless cranial and spinal navigation systems, endoscopic cranial and spinal techniques and other minimally invasive surgical procedures to the brain and spine.
While developing the North Jersey Brain and Spine Center into its current sub-specialized team, his practice now focuses on patients with spinal conditions, and he strongly advocates conservative care. When surgery is appropriate, he uses state-of-the-art techniques in the operating room to improve outcomes, including a minimal access surgical procedure for fusion, which often reduces postoperative pain. He actively educates associates and other spinal surgeons in these more novel approaches.
Education
State University New York. Health Sciences Center/Kings County Hospital Center. - Residency
Brooklyn, NY
January, 1991 - April, 1992
Chief Resident in Neurosurgery
State University New York. Health Sciences Center/Kings County Hospital Center. - Residency
Brooklyn, NY
July, 1987 - January, 1991
Clinical Resident in Neurosurgery
State University New York. Health Sciences Center/Kings County Hospital Center. - Research Fellowship
Brooklyn, NY
July, 1986 - June, 1987
Research Fellowship in Neurosurgery
State University New York. Health Sciences Center/Kings County Hospital Center. - Internship
Brooklyn, NY
July, 1985 - June, 1986
General Surgical Internship
State University New York - Medical Education
Brooklyn, NY
1981 - 1985
MD
Distinction in Research
State University of New York - Pre-Professional Education
Albany, NY
August, 1987 - May, 1981
B.S. (Biology)
Summa Cum Laude
Awards/Honors
Castle Connolly Top Doctor, New York Metro area - 2001, 2004, 2006-2017
Castle Connolly - Inside New Jersey, Top Doctors - 2010, 2013, 2014
Consumer's Research Council of America - America's Top Surgeons, 2006, 2007, 2008
Certifications
American Board of Neurological Surgeons, November 1995
Fellow of American College of Surgeons, 1996
Publications
Visceral and Vascular Complications Resulting from another Lumbar Interbody Fusion.
J. Neurosurgery (Spine 1)
1999
Other contributors include, Rajaraman, V., Roth, P.A., Heary, R.F., Conklin, L., Jacobs, G.B.
Cerebral Metabolic Alterations in Rats Following Prenatal Alcohol Exposure: A Deoxyglucose Study.
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.
1986
Other contributors include, Dow-Edwards, D.L., Riley, E.P.
