Ramesh Babu, MCh, MD, began his neurosurgical training in India at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences before coming to the United States and completing his residency at NYU Medical Center. Following this, Dr. Babu completed two fellowships in skull base and microvascular neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center under Drs. Jannetta and Sekhar, and at the Nordtstadt Klinik in Hanover, Germany under Professor Samii. Dr. Babu has a particular interest in the management of benign tumors of the brain and a variety of skull base lesions. He is also the director of the Center for Facial Pain at NYU Medical Center, treating conditions such as trigeminal neuralgia and hemifacial spasm. Dr. Babu has initiated a skull-base anatomy lab for the advancement of new skull-base approaches. He is an active member of the North American Skull Base Society.

Maxim Koslow, MD graduated from Howard University School of Medicine in 1969. After an internship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, a year of neurology at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London, England and two years as a Clinical Fellow in Surgical Neurology at NIH, he completed his residency at NYU in 1978. Dr. Koslow is the Associate Director of the Bellevue Hospital component of the NYU Neurosurgery program.

Dr. Vallo Benjamin is internationally considered a master surgeon for intracranial tumors of the skull base and in complex spinal procedures. He did pioneering work in development of anterior approaches to the spinal column for trauma, tumors and degenerative diseases of the spine in the early 1970s. In 1992'1993 he served as the Acting Chairman for the Department of Neurosurgery.