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October 31, 2001 Milhorat Named Neurosurgery Chair at LIJ Medical Center,

North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset Will Direct New Center on Skull

Base Anomalies H. Milhorat, MD, has assumed his duties as chairman of

the Department of Neurosurgery at both Long Island Jewish Medical Center and

North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset.In addition, he becomes the

first director of the new Chiari Center being established on the Manhasset

campus. Named for Professor Hans Chiari, who first described cerebellar

anomalies at the base of the skull, the Chiari Center will be the nation’s

first multidisciplinary diagnostic/surgical/management facility for patients

suffering from Chiari’s syndrome and syringomyelia.Dr. Milhorat comes to the

North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System from the State University of New

York Health Science Center in Brooklyn, where he was professor and chairman

of the Department of Neurosurgery. He received his BA and MD degrees from

Cornell University.“With the collaboration of my outstanding new colleagues

at the North Shore-LIJ Health System, and with the many resources at our

disposal, I look forward to building a neurosurgical program of such stature

that it will attract patients not only from the region, but nationally and

even worldwide, " Dr. Milhorat said.“The establishment of the Chiari Center

will permit patients with surgically treatable conditions to be distinguished

from those with chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and other ambiguous

neurological disorders,†Dr. Milhorat continued. “Their diagnosis and

treatment will be of the highest order, and the connection with the

Boas-Marks Biomedical Research Science Center will permit us to follow

intriguing new scientific leads.â€The North Shore-LIJ Health System includes

18 hospitals, four long-term-care facilities, three trauma centers, nine home

health agencies, and numerous outpatient centers throughout Nassau, Suffolk,

Queens, and Richmond counties. Its facilities house more than 5,670 beds and

are staffed by about 30,000 employees, including more than 5,000 physicians

and 7,000 nurses.Milhorat Named Neurosurgery Chair at LIJ Medical Center,

North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset Will Direct New Center on Skull

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