Dr. Dr. Craig M. Shannon

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Get to know Neurosurgeon Dr. Craig M. Shannon, who serves patients throughout the State of New York.

Dr. Shannon, a board-certified and fellowship-trained neurosurgeon, is in practice with Brain & Spine Surgeons of New York (BSSNY). He is interested in all aspects of neurosurgery, which include cranial neurosurgery, trauma, and spine surgery.

With six offices throughout the state of New York, BSSNY offers brain and spine patients the expertise of academic surgeons in the environment, comfort, and convenience of private practice. Whenever possible, the team of experts uses non-surgical or minimally invasive surgical techniques to speed recovery and prevent damage to healthy tissue.

Although he was born in Manhattan, Dr. Shannon grew up in the small town of Zanesville, Ohio. He attended college at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and graduated in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He then attended the University of Toledo College of Medicine and graduated with his medical degree in 2007.

That same year, he began his training in neurosurgery at the Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College. During this time, he served as the chief resident at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Manhattan, completed an infolded spine fellowship at Westchester Medical Center, and completed a chief resident year at Westchester Medical Center. He graduated from his residency program in June of 2016 and joined the BSSNY Neurosurgery group. 

In August 2017, Dr. Shannon was appointed Chief and Medical Director of Neurosurgery at Vassar Brothers Medical Center. He is also an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at New York Medical College, as well as remains affiliated with Putnam Hospital Center and White Plains Hospital.

Among his various achievements, the doctor is board-certified through the American Board of Neurological Surgery, whose broad aim is to encourage the study, improve the practice, elevate the standards, and advance the science of neurological surgery and thereby serve the cause of public health. 

Neurosurgery is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, surgical treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and extra-cranial cerebrovascular system. Neurosurgeons are doctors who diagnose and treat problems with the nervous system, often by performing surgery on the brain or spine. They treat strokes, tumors, certain types of birth defects, infections, and head or spinal cord injuries.

On a more personal note, Dr. Shannon is the son of a private practice neurosurgeon and his mother is a registered nurse. He has two sisters, a twin sister, and a younger sister.

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