Andrew Reisner MD FACS, FAAP

Summary

• Dr. Andrew Reisner is a board certified pediatric neurosurgeon. He completed his residency at Emory University in 1993 and subsequently did a fellowship in pediatric neurosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco. He has been an attending neurosurgeon at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) for 23 years. He has a large clinical practice and has averaged over 400 surgical cases annually over this period. He is directly responsible for all aspects of the patients’ care and manages the full gamut of pediatric neurosurgical problems, including brain tumors, congenital CNS diseases, hydrocephalus and trauma.
  
  Dr. Reisner is a professor in both the Departments of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics, Emory University and is involved in resident training. He established the fellowship in Pediatric Neurosurgery at Emory University in 2012.
  Dr Reisner established the Neurotrauma and Concussion programs at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) and, as Director, is responsible for the logistics and monitoring of compliance of implemented evidence-based pathways (see attached CHOA Neurotrauma 1 page summary). Dr Reisner championed the implementation of evidence-based pathways in 2022 for severe TBI which has resulted in sustained 40 % improvement in mortality (peer reviewed published data). The concussion program, Pediatric Concussion Care | Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (choa.org) established in 2015 has fulfilled the overwhelming need for management of these children and to date, the concussion program has had > 50,000 patient interactions.
  Dr. Reisner’s research activity includes a variety of clinical aspects of pediatric neurosurgery with a focus on head injuries. He established the Pediatric Neurotrauma Lab in 2018, a translational lab housed on the Emory campus. Pediatric Neurotrauma Lab | Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
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