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Neurosurgery

Neurosurgery

APC 6
593 Eddy Street
Providence, RI 02903
Phone: 401-793-9166
Fax: 401-444-2788

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Neurosurgery Team

Albert Telfeian, MD 

Albert Telfeian, MD, PhD
Director of Neurosurgery

Read the press release welcoming Telfeian.

Hasbro Children’s Hospital is the pediatric division of Rhode Island Hospital, which is the principal teaching hospital of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Our physicians are faculty members of the school, where they train the next generation of physicians and engage in ongoing collaborative and multidisciplinary clinical research in pediatric diseases. With our ongoing involvement in education and research, we offer our patients the opportunity to participate in clinical research trials that offer the most advanced treatments available.

Hasbro Children’s Hospital’s specialists in pediatric neurosurgery evaluate and treat children with a range of neurosurgical conditions caused by injury, disease or congenital malformation. Our neurosurgeons work as part of a multidisciplinary team of pediatric practitioners. The team provides our patients the most advanced surgical and medical care with a family-centered approach.

The neurosurgery staff at Hasbro Children’s Hospital has special expertise in pediatric neurosurgery and treatment for central nervous system disorders, including comprehensive care of brain tumors. 

In addition to first-rate clinical services and state-of-the-art facilities, Hasbro Children’s Hospital offers ancillary services such as school tutoring, child life activities, and family support groups. We also offer care by social workers, child life professionals and pediatric psychologists.

Conditions we treat include:

  • Achondroplasia
  • Arachnoid cysts
  • Brain abscess
  • Brain tumors
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Chiari malformation
  • Craniofacial anomalies, including craniosynostosis and other cranial malformations
  • Epilepsy and seizures
  • Head injuries
  • Hydrocephalus
  • Movement disorders
  • Moyamoya disease
  • Spasticity
  • Spina bifida and other spinal deformities
  • Syringomyelia
  • Tethered spinal cord
  • Trauma