– Dr. David Estin – Clinical Instructor in Neurosurgery, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

MD, FACS

Chiari Malformation

Brain Tumors

Facial Wellness

Spine Specialty

Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

Eatontown

Toms River

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About Dr. David Estin

Dr. Estin specializes in the treatment of brain tumors and spinal disorders. He has particular expertise in the use of endoscopic techniques to remove pituitary tumors at the base of the brain through the nose.

Meet Dr. Estin

He commonly employs advanced technology such as image guidance and stereotactic radiosurgery (i.e. Gammaknife, Cyberknife, Tomotherapy) in the treatment of brain tumors and trigeminal neuralgia.

Spinal disorders are routinely approached using minimally invasive techniques, including the use of tubular portals for microdiscectomy, spinal stenosis, spinal fusion and spinal tumors. He also has special expertise in robotic spinal surgery and artificial disc replacement in the cervical spine.

With his main office in central New Jersey, Dr. Estin has helped establish a center of excellence in the communities of Monmouth and Ocean counties.

Training & Education

Dr. Estin graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Human Biology from Brown University, magna cum laude. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the New York University School of Medicine and was admitted to Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He then completed an Internship in Surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School. His Neurological Surgery residency was undertaken at Tufts University, serving as chief resident at Tufts and at Beth Israel Deaconess.

Dr. Estin is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons as well as the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.

Hospital Privileges

In addition to working out of our Toms River and West Long Branch offices, Dr. Estin has the ability to treat and admit patients at the following area hospitals.

NYU Langone Helath
Riverview Medical Center
Monmouth Medical Center – Southern Campus
Bayshore Community Hospital

Publications

See the research Dr. Estin has had published.

Neurosurgical Overview in Rehabilitative Surgery, April 2017
Connexins are expressed in primary brain tumors and enhance the bystander effect in gene therapy, February 1999
Tandem aneurysms of the distal anterior inferior cerebellar artery: Case report.Journal of Neurovascular Disease, 1998
Functional analysis of third ventriculostomy patency with phase-contrast MRI velocity measurements, March 1997
Caudal Agenesis and Associated Caudal Spinal Cord Malformations, April 1995
Signaling normal human T-cells: synergism between CD 2 Antigen and CD3/T cell receptor alpha beta complex in the elicitation of IL-2 gene expression. Transplantation Proceedings, 1991
The molecular basis for the synergism between the CD3/alpha beta T cell receptor and the CD2 antigen-derived signals in promoting T-cell proliferation. Transplantation, 1991
Signaling T-cells: crosslinkage of the T-cell antigen receptor alpha beta heterodimer (T-cell receptor) with the Cluster Determinant 2 (CD 2) antigen promotes gene expression and new DNA synthesis. Clinical Research, 1990

Insurances

Aetna Medicare
Aetna Meritain & Assure
Aetna Signature (1199 & GEHA)
Aetna Whole Health
Clover Medicare – Case by Case exception
Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield (Blue Card/Suitcase/PPO)
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of NJ (commercial)
Horizon Braven Health (PPO, HMO-POS)
Braven Medicare Choice PPO
Braven Medicare Freedom PPO
Braven Medicare Group HMO-POS
Braven Medicare Access group HMO-POS
Medicare (Part A and Part B)
No Fault (New Jersey Motor Vehicle Accidents Only)
Omnia (tier 1)
Oxford Garden State Health Plan
Oxford Health Plan
UHC under Empire/NYSHIP plan
United HealthCare (commercial, including All Savers) UMR
Worker’s Comp- NJ Only

Dr. Estin is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons as well as the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.

In addition to working out of our Toms River and West Long Branch offices, Dr. Estin has the ability to treat and admit patients at the following area hospitals.