Why Choose UVA

With our global reputation and unsurpassed experience – we've treated more than 7,000 patients from around the world since 1989 – UVA's Gamma Knife Center offers you the best chance for successful results.

UVA is a leader in Gamma Knife surgery.

• We're one of the first centers in the world to treat patients with Gamma Knife Perfexion, the first total redesign of the technology in 30 years. Gamma Knife has always been the gold standard for intracranial radiosurgery, and Perfexion improves accuracy and precision even more.
• Our original Gamma unit was the fifth in the world and only the second in the United States. There are now more than 200 Gamma Knife units around the world.
• In 2001, we upgraded to the Model C Gamma Knife. This new model, with a robotic automatic positioning system (APS), provides the patient the most comfortable and shortest treatment session possible.

• The UVA team also includes Neal Kassell, MD, an expert in neurovascular surgery and innovator in the Gamma Knife treatment of arteriovenous malformations.
• Jason Sheehan, MD, co-director of the Gamma Knife Center, is fellowship-trained in stereotactic radiosurgery and has worked with Drs. L. Dade Lunsford, Douglas Kondziolka and John Flickinger at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Sheehan trained under Ladislau Steiner, now retired, who helped develop the first Gamma Knife 30 years ago.

• Together, Kassell and Sheehan have taught numerous neurosurgeons and radiation oncologists in the technique of radiosurgery. Many of these students have gone on to start radiosurgical centers in other parts of the world.

A Team Approach to Treatment

At UVA, specialists in neurosurgery, neuroradiology, endocrinology, anesthesiology, neuro-ophthalmology, neuro-otology, radiation oncology and medical physics work as an integrated team to provide comprehensive care to our patients. Pioneering work in Gamma Knife surgery has been performed here for arteriovenous malformations, pituitary adenomas, brain metastases and trigeminal neuralgia.