Professor of Neurological Surgery and Radiology
Director, Center for Endovascular and Exovascular Therapy
Director, Center for Cranial Nerve Disorders
Phone: (412) 647-3920; (412) 647-7000
e-mail: horowitzmb@upmc.edu

Also see Media Appearances below.

Specialized Areas of Interest

Endovascular surgery; vascular surgery; microvascular decompression; tumors.

Biography

Michael B. Horowitz, MD, joined the faculty of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh in August 1999. He is a board-certified neurosurgeon and neurointerventional radiologist.

Dr. Horowitz received his medical degree from the University of Rochester. Following a neurosurgical residency at the University of Pittsburgh and an interventional neuroradiology fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, he was named assistant professor of neurosurgery and radiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.

Dr. Horowitz is an tenured professor of neurosurgery and radiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, director of UPMC’s Center for Neuroendovascular Therapy and associate director of the Cranial Nerve Disorders Center and chief of neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, UPMC Presbyterian.

Dr. Horowitz performs more than 1200 neurosurgical and neuroradiological procedures/year, has published over 130 articles in refereed journals, one book/monograph on neuroendovascular surgery and over 30 book chapters. His research on the effects of subarachnoid hemorrhage on cardiac function is funded by a five year $2.8 million NIH R01 grant for which he is the primary investigator.

Dr. Horowitz's publications can be reviewed through the National Library of Medicine's publication database with additional references found on his curriculum vitae.

Board Certifications

American Board of Neurological Surgery

Hospital Privileges

Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
UPMC Mercy
UPMC Presbyterian
UPMC St. Margaret
UPMC Shadyside

Professional Organization Membership

American Society of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology (ASITN)
AANS/CNS Section of Cerebrovascular Surgery
American Association of Neurological Surgery
Congress of Neurological Surgery

Editorial Service

• Ad Hoc Reviewer:

Neurosurgery
American Journal of Neuroradiology
Journal of Neuroimaging

Media Appearances

UPMC surgeon devises aneurysm treatment
December 15, 2007
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Medical team brings home to impoverished Ecuadoran
(.mov)
June 30, 2007
WZBN-TV Princeton, NJ

Baby's brain repaired with innovative medical procedure
December 27, 2006
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The art of healing: Three doctors, three patients, three medical miracles
May 2006
Pittsburgh Magazine

Docs use coils in aneurysm treatment (.rm)
2003
WTAE-TV Pittsburgh

Special image fusion technique developed for surgery (.rm)
June 11, 2001
WTAE-TV Pittsburgh