Robert Galler DO, MPH, FACS, FACOS

Robert Galler, DO, MPH, FACS, FACOS, is the director of Neurosurgical Spine at Peconic Bay Medical Center as part of the department of Neurosurgery at Northwell Health.  He had been an Associate professor in Neurosurgery and Orthopedics at Stony Brook Medicine since 2003. He is a native New Yorker who completed his undergraduate degree at Hofstra University and attended medical school at NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine.

His neurosurgery residency was at the North Shore LIJ Health System, and he has done two fellowships in spinal neurosurgery with leaders in the field, such as Volker Sonntag and Kevin Foley. As the director of the Spine Center at the Stony Brook Neurosciences Institute, Galler oversaw the research into spinal cord injury and spinal biomechanics. His main interest has been neurotrauma. His elective practice had been general neurosurgery with an emphasis on complex spine disorders. Dr. Galler is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

He has an interest in world medicine and has traveled to Tanzania and Kenya, Africa, for surgical education programs. These trips included teaching local surgeons and performing charity surgery. He hopes to continue to travel, teach, and participate in the development of neurosurgery in developing countries. He is also interested in participating further in hospital administration.  He attended Columbia University in NYC to earn a Master's Degree in Public Health (M.P.H.) with a focus on healthcare policy. He hopes to combine his clinical experience with this new educational experience in the next part of his career with Northwell Health, since joining in 2017