Westchester Medical Center
Valhalla, New York, United States
Simon Hanft, MD is a board-certified neurosurgeon specializing in the care of brain tumors and tumors involving the spinal cord. He is the Section Chief of Neurosurgical Oncology for the Westchester Medical Center Health Network, Program Director of the neurosurgery residency, and Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at New York Medical College .Dr. Hanft grew up on Long Island and received his undergraduate degree from Yale University before obtaining a master's degree at the University of Cambridge in England. He attended medical school at Stanford University during which time he received a prestigious Howard Hughes Fellowship to study neural stem cell networks. He went on to complete neurosurgery residency at Columbia University Medical Center/The Neurological Institute of New York, followed by an additional year dedicated to brain tumor surgery as a Surgical Neuro-oncology Fellow at the University of Miami. He then joined the faculty at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School before moving to head the brain tumor section at Westchester Medical Center.
