Lilyana Angelov, MD

Lilyana Angelov, MD, is a Neurosurgeon who is board-certified in both the United States and Canada. She is the Director of Cleveland Clinic’s Gamma Knife Center, Director of the Neurosurgical Oncology and Radiosurgery Fellowship Programs, Head, Section of Spinal Tumors and Clinical Professor of Neurological Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. Outside of the Cleveland Clinic, she is Vice President of the World Spinal Column Society and serves on the AANS/CNS Section on Tumors Executive Committee.

Dr. Angelov has a multifaceted clinical practice and research interests which focus on the surgical treatment of patients with brain tumors such as metastatic brain tumors, primary (malignant and benign) brain tumors as well as cares for patients with malignant and benign spine tumors utilizing spine radiosurgery. Indeed, an important focus of her work is the development of a spine radiosurgery program that she founded at the Cleveland Clinic in 2006. This was the first clinical program of its kind in Ohio and among one of the earliest such programs in all of the United States and this very active clinical program that is now recognized globally.

Dr. Angelov serves as a Course Director for the Gamma Knife CME training course as well the Annual International Symposium on Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy and Stereotactic Radiosurgery and coordinates the three yearly Neurosurgery Visiting Professorships. She also directly mentors numerous fellows, residents and medical students and has over 100 peer-reviewed publications.

Dr. Angelov received her Medical degree and completed her Neurosurgical Residency at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. Subsequently, she completed a fellowship at St. Michael’s Hospital (Toronto, Canada) in Neurosurgical Trauma as well as a Neurosurgical Oncology fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. She has been a member of the Cleveland Clinic Staff since 2003.

The following articles related to Dr. Angelov may be of interest to patients:

Management of Lung Cancer Brain Metastases: An Update

Case Study Spotlights Pioneering Use of Staged Radiosurgery for Previously Untreatable Brain Metastases

Pioneering Staged Gamma Knife Therapy for Large Brain Metastases

2-Staged Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Large Brain Metastases: More Support from Largest Series Yet

Gamma Knife for Brain Tumors: Latest Developments and What’s on the Horizon

Education & Professional Highlights

Appointed
2002

Education & Fellowships

Fellowship - Cleveland Clinic
Neuro-oncology
Cleveland, OH USA
2004

Fellowship - Saint Michael's Hospital
Neurosurgery
Toronto, ON Canada
2002

Residency - University of Toronto
Neurosurgery
Toronto, ON Canada
2001

Internship - Saint Michael's Hospital
Internal Medicine
Toronto, ON Canada
1993

Medical Education - University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
Toronto,
1992

Undergraduate - University of Toronto
Toronto, ON Canada
1987

Certifications

Neurological Surgery
Neurological Surgery

Specialty Interests

CNS metastatic disease, Gamma Knife Radiosurgery, intraarterial chemotherapy with blood-brain-barrier disruption, neuro-oncology, spine radiosurgery, benign and malignant tumors of the brain and spinal cord, benign brain tumors (meningiomas, schwannomas), Brain Metastases, brain tumors, gamma knife, gamma knife and radiosurgery, molecular biology of brain tumors clinical and translational trials, Spinal Radiosurgery, stereotactic surgery, tumors of the brain and spine

Awards & Honors

2008 Robert Ginsberg Surgical Oncology Award, Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG)
"Top Docs in America," Cleveland Magazine, 2007
Outstanding Presentation Award at Neurosurgery Science Management Meeting, New Orleans, La.; October 2000
1999 McKenzie Award for Basic Neuroscience Research awarded by the Canadian Congress of Neurological Sciences; June 1999
Thomas P. Morley Neurosurgery First Prize; February 1999
American Association of Neurological Surgeons Research Fellowship, 2 years; July 1997
National Cancer Institute (NCI) Canada Post-MD Research Fellowship, 3 years; July 1997

Innovations & Patents

Spine Radiosurgery at Cleveland Clinic

Research & Publications

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