John D. Lipani, MD, PhD

Medical Director of the CHS Institute for Neurosciences

Dr. Lipani is the Medical Director of the Institute for Neurosciences at Capital Health System and the Surgical Director of the CyberKnife® Center. He received his medical degree from Sackler School of Medicine. He then earned a PhD in Neuroscience from Tulane University where he received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) research fellowship award in Neuroscience. In 2000, Dr. Lipani began his neurosurgical training at New York University Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital. From 2001-2005, he completed his training and served as Chief Resident in Neurosurgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. While at Jefferson, Dr. Lipani spent several years training at the Delaware Valley Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center, one of the nation's 16 national centers of excellence for spinal disorders. He also received specialized training in Pediatric Neurosurgery at the nationally renowned Children's Hospital of Philadelphia of the University of Pennsylvania.

Following his residency, Dr. Lipani pursued a fellowship in Stereotactic Radiosurgery at Stanford University Medical Center where he received a prestigious Physician Scientist Award conferred by the CyberKnife® Society for research devoted to the treatment of primary brain tumors. While serving as a clinical instructor of Neurosurgery at Stanford, Dr. Lipani received extensive training in CyberKnife® Radiosurgery and studied under world-class CyberKnife® expert, John Adler, MD, inventor of the CyberKnife. He is also involved in the development of several novel therapeutic strategies using CyberKnife® radiosurgery for the treatment of cluster headache, chronic back pain, brain tumors, and cerebral aneurysms.

Dr. Lipani serves as an expert in stereotactic radiosurgery on three internationally recognized advisory review boards and is an active member of the CyberKnife® Society. In addition, he has lectured and authored several peer reviewed abstracts and articles on CyberKnife® and has recently written a book chapter on spinal radiosurgery. Dr Lipani is also a member of several other scientific and professional societies including the Society for Neuroscience, American Society for Neurochemestry, AANS/CNS Joint Section on Tumors, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.