Ekkehard Matthias Kasper MD, PhD, FAANS, FACS, FRCS(C)

Dr. Ekkehard Matthias Kasper has joined the medical staff at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center and Steward Medical Group. Dr. Kasper is an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and professor of neurosurgery who has a deep mastery of surgical intervention for diseases, injuries, and conditions that impact the brain and spinal cord. He has a particular interest in neuro-oncology, treating tumors on the brain, spine, and pituitary gland, whether they are benign, malignant, or metastatic.

He will continue this focus of his practice in Boston in collaboration with the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Prior to joining St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Dr. Kasper was a professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and served as Service head of Neurosurgery and Director of the brain tumor service at Hamilton Health Sciences and its Juravinski Cancer Center in Hamilton, Ontario. Prior to that, he spent 13 years at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Mass. where he was an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and he held several leadership roles including Chief of Neurosurgical Oncology and Stereotactic Neurosurgery and co-director of the Brain Tumor and Keith Field Cyberknife Center.