Brian Thomas Jankowitz, MD

Brian T. Jankowitz, M.D. is a board certified neurosurgeon with a special focus on cerebrovascular surgery. Dr. Jankowitz serves as Chief of Neurosurgery and Co-Chair of Stroke and Neurovascular Program at the Hackensack Meridian Neuroscience Institute at JFK University Medical Center in Edison, New Jersey. 

Dr. Jankowitz specializes in innovative treatments for ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke including carotid disease, intracranial stenosis, brain aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), and vascular malformations of the spine. He has extensive training in open and endovascular surgical procedures including CEA, TCAR, carotid stenting, aneurysm clipping, aneurysm coiling, and acute stroke interventions.

Prior to joining the Hackensack Meridian Neuroscience Institute at JFK University Medical Center, Dr. Jankowitz was the Division Head of Cerebrovascular Surgery at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He had previously served as the Director of the Cerebrovascular Program at Cooper Neurological Institute in Camden, New Jersey. He was also an associate professor of neurological surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and served as faculty of the UPMC Neurosurgery Department and UPMC Stroke Institute where he specialized in both open and endovascular neurosurgery.

Earning his bachelor of science degree from the University of Notre Dame, Dr. Jankowitz received his medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine. He then went on to complete his surgical internship, neurosurgical residency, and fellowship in Neuroendovascular surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Jankowitz is a member of the American Board of Neurological Surgeons, the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery and the American Heart Association. He is also a member of the Congress of the Neurological Surgeons and the Endovascular Neurosurgery Research Group, and holds editorial positions on several national medical publications including The Spine Journal, World Neurosurgery, Neurosurgical Review, Interventional Neurology and the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery. He is also a primary investigator for several national clinical trials.