Danilo Silva Email & Phone Number

Danilo Silva, MD is the Director of Neurosurgery at Phelps Hospital and is also a member of the Department of Neurosurgery of Lenox Hill Hospital.Dr. Silva has extensive post-residency clinical fellowship training in the areas of open and endoscopic skull base surgery, neurosurgical oncology, radiosurgery and functional and restorative neurosurgery, all of them at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic. At the Cleveland Clinic, in his final year, Dr. Silva was awarded recognition for excellence in teaching by the graduate medical education office. Additionally, Dr. Silva has completed two post-doctoral research fellowships in minimally invasive neurosurgery at Weill Cornell Medical College and Skull Base surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital from Harvard Medical School. Dr. Silva is a member of numerous societies including Congress of Neurological Surgeons, North American Skull Base Society, The Pituitary Society, American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, American Academy of Neurological and Orthopedic Surgeons and Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery. Dr. Silva has written various book chapters in his areas of expertise and has published neurosurgical articles in world-renowned indexed journals including Journal of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery, World Neurosurgery, Stroke, Neurosurgery Clinics of North America, Surgical Neurology International and Journal of Clinical Neurosciences. Dr. Silva is known for his excellent patient communication skills and patient centered approach. Besides English, Dr. Silva is fluent in two other languages, Portuguese and Spanish.

Listed skills include Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery, Gamma Knife Radiosurgery, Clinical Research, Healthcare Management, and 7 others.