– Dr. Dorothea Altschul

She trained in Neuroendovascular Surgery in a two year clinical fellowship at the Columbia Campus of the NY Presbyterian Hospital (Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons) in New York. Prior to that, she completed a clinical and research fellowship in Vascular Neurology with focus on stroke and critical care neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women’s Hospital (Harvard Medical School) in Boston. She finished her neurology training at Montefiore Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in Neuroepidemiology at the National Institute on Aging (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.

Currently, she serves as the Director of Neurointerventional Neurosurgery at Neurosurgeons of NJ and at The Valley Hospital. Dr Altschul is a senior member of various professional societies, including the Society of Neurointerventional Surgery, the Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology, and the American Academy of Neurology. She is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery, the most premier scientific journal in her field.

Dr. Altschul performs endovascular procedures such as cerebral and spinal angiography (angiograms), vascular embolizations, coiling procedures, intracranial angioplasty/stenting, carotid angioplasty/stenting, tumor embolizations, and acute stroke procedures (intraarterial thrombolysis, mechanical thrombectomy).
She is a principal investigator of multiple clinical research projects, in particular a quality and outcomes initiative, “The Neurointerventional Outcomes Project”, where she studies patient-reported-outcomes and other markers after cerebrovascular procedures and surgeries. This project is designed to drive improvements in patient care.

Dr Altschul is currently active as the Director of Neurointerventional Neurosurgery at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood in New Jersey. She has authored over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. In 2020, she has been named assistant editor of the Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery, a leading professional journal in the field of Neurointervention.

• various types of cerebral (brain) aneurysms
• arteriovenous malformations or fistulas
• dural arteriovenous fistulas
• cerebral or carotid atherosclerosis
• cerebral hemorrhage
• subdural hemorrhage
• carotid stenosis

• cerebrovascular disease
• pulsatile tinnitus
• venous stenosis
• intracranial atherosclerosis
• pediatric aneurysms
• vascular malformations
• ideopathic intracranial hypertension IIH/pseudotumor cerebri

In addition to working out of our Ridgewood office, Dr. Altschul has the ability to treat and admit patients at the following area hospitals.

• The Valley Hospital
• St. Joseph’s Health
• St. Barnabas Medical Center
• NYU Langone Health

See the research Dr. Dorothea Altschul has had published & Press Releases that have been published

• Stroke, August 2016
• Dr. Dorothea Altschul  Named Social Media Assistant Editor for Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery, March 2020
• Anxiety and depression in patients who undergo a cerebrovascular procedure
• Optimizing Stroke and Cerebral Aneurysm Care

• Aetna Medicare
• Aetna Meritain & Assure
• Aetna Signature (1199 & GEHA)
• Aetna Whole Health
• Americhoice/UHC Community Plan
• 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
• Wellcare Medicaid
• Worker’s Comp- NJ Only