The main physician is Douglas Kondziolka, MD, at the Center for Image-Guided Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Presbyterian Hospital.

The University of Pittsburgh can be considered a center of excellence for acoustic neuromas because they have two gamma knives in full-time operation and are acquiring a third. They are probably the busiest gamma knife center in the world. They also have an outstanding history of publishing about gamma knife treatment of acoustic neuromas, as can be seen below:

1. Kondziolka D, Lunsford LD, Flickinger JC. Acoustic Neuromas.
   Curr Treat Options Neurol. 2002 Mar;4(2):157-165.
2. Flickinger JC, Kondziolka D, Niranjan A, Lunsford LD. Results of acoustic neuroma radiosurgery: an analysis of 5 years' experience using current methods. J Neurosurg. 2001 Jan;94(1):1-6.
3. Kondziolka D, Lunsford LD, Flickinger JC. Gamma knife radiosurgery for vestibular schwannomas. Neurosurg Clin N Am. 2000 Oct;11(4):651-8.
4. Niranjan A, Lunsford LD, Flickinger JC, Maitz A, Kondziolka D. Dose reduction improves hearing preservation rates after intracanalicular acoustic tumor radiosurgery. Neurosurgery. 1999 Oct;45(4):753-62; discussion 762-5. Review.
5. Flickinger JC, Kondziolka D, Lunsford LD. Dose and diameter relationships for facial, trigeminal, and acoustic neuropathies following acoustic neuroma radiosurgery. Radiother Oncol. 1996 Dec;41(3):215-9.
6. Ogunrinde OK, Lunsford DL, Kondziolka DS, Bissonette DJ, Flickinger JC. Cranial nerve preservation after stereotactic radiosurgery of intracanalicular acoustic tumors. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 1995;64 Suppl 1:87-97.
7. Ogunrinde OK, Lunsford LD, Flickinger JC, Kondziolka DS. Cranial nerve preservation after stereotactic radiosurgery for small acoustic tumors.
   Arch Neurol. 1995 Jan;52(1):73-9.
8. Flickinger JC, Lunsford LD, Linskey ME, Duma CM, Kondziolka D. Gamma knife radiosurgery for acoustic tumors: multivariate analysis of four year results.
   Radiother Oncol. 1993 May;27(2):91-8.
9. Linskey ME, Lunsford LD, Flickinger JC, Kondziolka D. Stereotactic radiosurgery for acoustic tumors. Neurosurg Clin N Am. 1992 Jan;3(1):191-205.
10. Linskey ME, Lunsford LD, Flickinger JC. Radiosurgery for acoustic neurinomas: early experience. Neurosurgery. 1990 May;26(5):736-44; discussion 744-5.
11. Lunsford LD, Flickinger J, Coffey RJ. Stereotactic gamma knife radiosurgery. Initial North American experience in 207 patients. Arch Neurol. 1990 Feb;47(2):169-75.
12. Lunsford LD, Flickinger J, Lindner G, Maitz A. Stereotactic radiosurgery of the brain using the first United States 201 cobalt-60 source gamma knife. Neurosurgery. 1989 Feb;24(2):151-9.
13. Kamerer DB, Lunsford LD, Moller M. Gamma knife: an alternative treatment for acoustic neurinomas. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol. 1988 Nov-Dec;97(6 Pt 1):631-5.