Two North Shore-area doctors have been deemed “Rising Stars” by a communications firm that annually publishes directories listing the region’s top health care professionals.
MSP Communications named Dr. Lee Tessler, a neurosurgeon, and Dr. Jai Grewal, a neuro oncologist, among the 2.5 percent of physicians in the New York metropolitan area to receive the distinction, according to a news release.
It was the second consecutive year that Tessler, of Port Washington, has received the designation and the first for Grewal, of Roslyn.
Both doctors, who hold director positions with the Long Island Brain Turmor Center at Neurlogical Surgery, P.C., which has an office in Lake Success, were also recipients of the Robert Bernstein Humanitarian Award through Voices Against Brain Cancer, a national research non-profit.
“Our Long Island Brain Tumor Center at NSPC is among the nation’s best, so it is only fitting that both Dr. Tessler and Dr. Grewal have been given this elite honor,” said Dr. Michael H. Brisman, chief executive officer of NSPC. “We congratulate them on being named to this highly selective list, which is based on peer recognition and professional achievement.”
Tessler, the center’s executive director and co-surgical director, specializes in the treatment of primary brain tumors, metastatic tumors and meningiomas.
In 2008, he was appointed assistant professor of neurosurgery at NYU Langone Medical Center, and Tessler is currently the chief of neurotrauma and chairman of Winthrop-University Hospital’s Neurosurgery Quality Improvement Committee.
He also sits on the medical advisory boards of Voices Against Brain Cancer and VirtualTrials.org.
Grewal, the center’s co-medical director, specializes in the management of primary brain and spine tumors, central nervous system metastases and neurological complications from cancer.
He is the principal investigator of several clinical trials and is a board member of the American Cancer Society’s Nassau County division.
