Theodore H. Schwartz, MD, is David and Ursel Barnes Professor in Minimally Invasive Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is an attending neurosurgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, where he specializes in the surgical treatment of brain tumors, pituitary tumors, and epilepsy using the latest techniques in computer-guided surgical navigation, minimally invasive endoscopy, and microsurgery.

Dr. Schwartz received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University, where he  graduated magna cum laude. After completing his residency and chief residency in Neurosurgery at The Neurological Institute of NewYork at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Dr. Schwartz spent a year at Yale-New Haven Medical Center receiving advanced fellowship training.

Dr. Schwartz appears frequently in the media and is regularly named to lists of New York's Super Doctors, Best Doctors in New York, America's Top Surgeons, America's Best Doctors, and America's Best Doctors for Cancer. He is the co-author of two books on endoscopic skull base surgery and endoscopic pituitary surgery.