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Dr. Saris completed his Neurosurgical residency at Duke Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina in 1985. He completed two fellowships prior to entering clinical practice. The first was at the Massachusetts General Hospital during which he studied under such internationally-known surgeons as Drs. Robert Ojemann, Peter Black, and Nicholas Zervas. His second was a four-year fellowship doing research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Saris has written dozens of papers dealing with subjects ranging from spinal disorders to the diagnosis of pituitary tumors to novel treatments of malignant brain tumors. After this fellowship, he became an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the New England Medical Center (NEMC) in Boston that is the main teaching hospital of the Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Saris spent four years at NEMC during which time he was promoted from an Assistant to an Associate Professor. He continued his research interest in brain tumors with the creation of a research laboratory. In 1993
he joined the faculty at the Brown University School of Medicine.
He took a position as an Associate Professor, and soon thereafter
assumed the acting Directorship of the New England Gamma Knife
Center. Dr. Saris was the Director of the Brain Tumor Program
at Brown University for many years and was Co-Chair of the Neuro-Oncology
Committee of the Brown University Oncology Group. He additionally
was Brown's principal investigator for a National Institutes of
Health study looking at spine metastases. He is currently the author
of over 25 refereed, scientific articles, in addition to five textbook
chapters, and In 1999,
Dr. Saris left academic medicine to create a private neurosurgical
group of his own and to take the Chair Position in Neurosurgery
at
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Dr.
Saris began his training with a surgical internship in 1979 at the
numerous
abstracts. For many years he was on the Neurosurgery Sub-committee
of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group and Neuro-Oncology Co-Chair
of the Brown University Oncology Group. 
