Arno H. Fried, MD, FACS, is currently the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery and the Pediatric Neuroscience Institute at Hackensack University Medical Center and the Don Imus Children's Center for Tomorrow's Children. He is also an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at New York Medical College in Westchester, New York.

He started the Epilepsy Center at Hackensack University Medical Center, with a team of nationally known epilepsy neurologists and professionals. This is based in the family centered WFAN Pediatric Center at Hackensack University Medical Center. He has a distinguished track record in academic Neurosurgery, with over 60 scientific publications and book chapters, and over 70 invited presentations at national meetings.

He previously was an attending Pediatric Neurosurgeon at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), prior to becoming the Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery at the Cleveland Clinic. He has done extensive research in the area of hydrocephalus and it's treatment.

He is one of a handful of neurosurgeons in the country to be board certified in both general Neurosurgery, as well as Pediatric Neurosurgery. Dr. Fried's main areas of interest are in new technology for Neurosurgery, new brain tumor treatments, and epilepsy, intracranial physiology in pediatric head trauma. Dr. Fried has performed nearly 400 epilepsy surgery operations, including new surgical approaches that include computer guided epilepsy resections, and vagal nerve stimulator insertion. More recently, he has presented his own series of childhood hemispherectomy, corpus callosotomy surgeries, and epilepsy associated with brain tumors at national scientific meetings.

Contact Information:

Arno Fried MD, FACS
Chief, Pediatric Neurosurgery
Hackensack University Medical Center
30 Prospect Ave
Hackensack, NJ 07601 USA
Voice: 201-996-5251
Fax: (201)996-0754
Email: ahf@aol.com