Dr. Michael J. Caron, MD

Expert Publications

• Posttraumatic cerebral arterial spasm: transcranial Doppler ultrasound, cerebral blood flow, and angiographic findings.
• Changes in the treatment of head injury.
• Indium-111-Photofrin-II scintillation scan.
• Photodynamic therapy for intracranial neoplasms. Literature review and institutional experience.
• Review of the risk of HIV infection through corneal transplantation in the United States.
• Glut1 glucose transporter activity in human brain injury.
• Cerebral hyperglycolysis following severe traumatic brain injury in humans: a positron emission tomography study.
• Neuropsychological, psychosocial and vocational correlates of the Glasgow Outcome Scale at 6 months post-injury: a study of moderate to severe traumatic brain injury patients.

Media Releases

Get to know Neurosurgeon Dr. Michael J. Caron, who serves patients in Chicago, Illinois.

A top professional in the field of neurological surgery, Dr. Caron’s clinical interests include primary and metastatic brain tumors, pituitary tumors, spinal tumors, cerebral aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations (AVM), microvascular decompression (MVD) for facial pain, Chiari malformation decompression, cervical spine surgery and stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS).

As a member of the Department of Neurological Surgery, Northwestern Medicine, he primarily sees patients at the Edward Neuroscience Institute in affiliation with Northwestern Medicine, and at the Edward Cancer Center in Naperville. Surgical procedures are performed at both Edward Hospital and Northwestern Memorial Hospital. In collaboration with Northwestern Medicine, he can also be found on staff at Central DuPage Hospital, Delnor Hospital, Huntley Hospital, McHenry Hospital, Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and Woodstock Hospital.

At Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Dr. Caron contributes to resident education as a Health System Clinician of Neurological Surgery. He founded and serves as Co-Director of the Edward Cancer Center Neuro-Oncology Multidisciplinary Center. His Edward Neuroscience Institute practice, affiliated with Edward Hospital, includes general neurological surgery. Dr. Caron is board-certified through the American Board of Neurological Surgery (ABNS). A Fellow of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, he is the recipient of Compassionate Doctor Recognition (2011) and Patients’ Choice Award (2011, 2018).

Dr. Caron graduated from Loyola University of Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine in 1982, serving as class President. He completed a general surgery internship at Loyola University Medical Center in 1983 and residency in Neurological Surgery at Loyola University Medical Center in 1989. He was Visiting Chief Resident at UCSF Medical Center in 1987. Previous appointments include, Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery, UCLA Medical Center as founding Director of the Clinical Brain Injury Program (1989-1994). As a native of Illinois, he returned to the Chicago area joining the Chicago Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroresearch (CINN) as Director of Neurological Surgery, Silver Cross Hospital Joliet, Illinois prior to settling at Edward Hospital in 1998 and joining Northwestern in 2013.

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