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 The University of Virginia Health System is a leader in
Gamma Knife Surgery. Since 1989, the UVa Gamma Knife Center has
treated more than 6800 patients from 54 other countries and every state
in the U.S. Dr. Jason
Sheehan and Dr. Neal
Kassell offer exceptional 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:
- UVA is one of the first centers in the world to treat patients with
the Gamma Knife Perfexion, the first total redesign of the
technology in 30 years. Gamma Knife has always been the gold standard
for intracranial radiosurgery, and Perfexion improves accuracy and
precision even more.
- Our Ladislau Steiner, now retired, helped develop the first Gamma
Knife 30 years ago, made UVA one of the first five Gamma installations
in the world and US, and pioneered applications for many different
indications, including acoustic neuromas and AVMs, making our center’s
experience among the greatest in the world.
- 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 innovator in the Gamma Knife
treatment of arteriovenous malformations.
- Dr. Jason Sheehan,
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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