Michael McDermott, M.D., is a neurosurgeon and the chief medical executive of Baptist Health Miami Neuroscience Institute. He is a world-renowned leader in neurosciences and has clinical expertise in the field of meningioma surgery and Gamma Knife radiosurgery.
Dr. McDermott is widely known for advancing neurosurgical techniques and is an expert in the treatment of a wide variety of neurological disorders. He is the world’s leading expert in meningioma, the most common primary brain tumor in adults.*
Dr. McDermott joined Baptist Health South Florida from UCSF Medical Center, where he served as co-director of the Gamma Knife radiosurgery and skull base surgery programs, vice chairman of clinical programs from 2001-2012 and held the Wolfe Family Endowed Professor in Meningioma Research.
Throughout his career, Dr. McDermott’s research has generated more than 400 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to his clinical and research leadership, he is an accomplished educator. As residency program director at UCSF Medical Center for seven years, he trained young surgeons from around the world.
Dr. McDermott has been recognized with several professional awards and numerous visiting professor invitations.
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Umbach, G., Tran, E., Eaton, C., Raleigh, D., Choudhury, A., Morshed, R., Villanueva-Meyer, J., Theodosopoulos, P., Magill, S., McDermott, M., Goldschmidt, E.> ;Operative Neurosurgery. 2024 Jan 8
Tugce Kutuk, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, Vibha Chaswal, Sreenija Yarlagadda, Roberto Herrera, Haley Appel, Alonso La Rosa, Vivek Mishra, D Jay J Wieczorek, Michael W McDerm...> ;Brachytherapy. 2023 Sep 16
Patrick G Schupp, Samuel J Shelton, Daniel J Brody, Rebecca Eliscu, Brett E Johnson, Tali Mazor, Kevin W Kelley, Matthew B Potts, Michael W McDermott, Eric J Huang, Da...> ;Biorxiv. 2024 Mar 18
Amalie S V Uggerly, Daniel D Cummins, Minh P Nguyen, Satvir Saggi, Ezequiel Goldschmidt, Edward F Chang, Michael W McDermott, Mitchel S Berger, Philip V Theodosopoulos...> ;Neurosurgical Focus. 2023 Aug 1
Ramin A Morshed, Daniel D Cummins, Minh P Nguyen, Satvir Saggi, Harish N Vasudevan, Steve E Braunstein, Ezequiel Goldschmidt, Edward F Chang, Michael W McDermott, Mitc...> ;Journal of Neurosurgery. 2024 Feb 1
Jacob S Young, Nadeem N Al-Adli, Rachel Muster, Ankush Chandra, Ramin A Morshed, Eric J Chalif, Shawn L Hervey-Jumper, Philip V Theodosopoulos, Michael W McDermott, Mi...> ;Journal of Neurosurgery. 2024 Jan 1
Ranjini Tolakanahalli, D Jay J Wieczorek, Yongsook C Lee, Martin C Tom, Matthew D Hall, Michael W McDermott, Minesh P Mehta, Rupesh Kotecha, Alonso N Gutierrez> ;Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics. 2023 Jun 1
Ramin A Morshed, Minh P Nguyen, Daniel D Cummins, Satvir Saggi, Jacob S Young, Alexander F Haddad, Ezequiel Goldschmidt, Edward F Chang, Michael W McDermott, Mitchel S...> ;Neuro-Oncology Advances. 2023 Jan 28
Alonso La Rosa, D Jay J Wieczorek, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, Yongsook C Lee, Tugce Kutuk, Martin C Tom, Matthew D Hall, Michael W McDermott, Minesh P Mehta, Alonso N Guti...> ;Cancers. 2023 Jan 27
Morshed, R., Saggi, S., Cummins, D., Molinaro, A., Young, J., Viner, J., Villanueva-Meyer, J., Goldschmidt, E., Boreta, L., Braunstein, S., Chang, E., McDermott, M., B...> ;Journal of Neurosurgery. 2023 Jan 13
Shawn L Hervey-Jumper, Yalan Zhang, Joanna J Phillips, Ramin A Morshed, Jacob S Young, Lucie McCoy, Marisa Lafontaine, Tracy Luks, Simon Ammanuel, Sofia Kakaizada, And...> ;Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2023 Apr 10
Tugce Kutuk, Rupesh Kotecha, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, D Jay J Wieczorek, Yongsook C Lee, Manmeet S Ahluwalia, Matthew D Hall, Michael W McDermott, Haley Appel, Alonso N ...> ;Cancers. 2022 Jul 13
Christopher P Millward, Terri S Armstrong, Heather Barrington, Andrew R Brodbelt, Helen Bulbeck, Anthony Byrne, Linda Dirven, Carrol Gamble, Paul L Grundy, Abdurrahman...> ;Neuro-Oncology. 2022 Jul 1
Minh P Nguyen, Ramin A Morshed, Cecilia L Dalle Ore, Daniel D Cummins, Satvir Saggi, William C Chen, Abrar Choudhury, Akshay Ravi, David R Raleigh, Stephen T Magill, M...> ;Journal of Neurosurgery. 2023 Jan 1
Tugce Kutuk, Kevin J Abrams, Martin C Tom, Muni Rubens, Haley Appel, Charif Sidani, Matthew D Hall, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, D Jay J Wieczorek, Alonso N Gutierrez, Micha...> ;Radiotherapy and Oncology. 2022 Aug 1
Alexander A Aabedi, Jacob S Young, Ryan R L Phelps, Ethan A Winkler, Michael W McDermott, Philip V Theodosopoulos> ;Journal of Neurological Surgery. Part B, Skull Base. 2022 Jun 1
Penny K Sneed, Jason W Chan, Lijun Ma, Steve E Braunstein, Philip V Theodosopoulos, Shannon E Fogh, Jean L Nakamura, Lauren Boreta, David R Raleigh, Benjamin P Ziemer,...> ;Journal of Neurosurgery. 2023 Jan 1
Impact of Pretreatment Growth on Tumor Control for Vestibular Schwannomas Following Gamma Knife
Aaron D Tward, Jonathan D Breshears, Michael W McDermott, The Laryngoscope
Myxoid Glioneuronal Tumor of the Septum Pellucidum and Lateral Ventricle Is Defined by a Recurrent PDGFRA p.K385 Mutation and DNT-like Methylation Profile
Melike Pekmezci, Andrew W Bollen, David A Solomon, Xuemo Fan, Serguei Bannykh, James Johnston, Elaine Cham, James P Grenert, Boris C Bastian, Arie Perry, Moise Danielp..., Acta Neuropathologica
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Baptist Health Is First in the State to Conduct Novel Liquid Biopsy in Brain Cancer PatientMarch 26th, 2023
New GBM Study PRESERVE Receives $250,000 Grant from NICO CorporationMarch 15th, 2023
New Clinical Trial Underway for Alzheimer's PatientsAugust 3rd, 2022
University of Toronto Faculty of MedicineClass of 1982
FL State Medical License 2019 - 2026
CA State Medical License 1988 - 2021
Baptist Health Is First in the State to Conduct Novel Liquid Biopsy in Brain Cancer PatientMarch 26th, 2023
Baptist Hospital of MiamiMiami, Florida
