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 at 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 the 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, and primary (malignant and benign) brain tumors as well as caring 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 is now recognized globally.

Dr. Angelov serves as a Course Director for the Gamma Knife CME training course as well as 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.