David L. Penn, MD

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Dr. David L. Penn was born and raised in Mount Kisco, NY. He did his undergraduate training at Duke University. While in high school and college, he did research on cerebrovascular disease at NY Presbyterian-Columbia and Duke University which is where he first became interested in neurosurgery. After college, he returned home to complete a graduate degree in Physiology at New York Medical college and then went on to medical school at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University. He completed his residency training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. During this time, he completed a fellowship subspecializing in minimally-invasive, endoscopic treatments for pituitary tumors and other types of brain tumors. Following residency, Dr. Penn completed a fellowship in skull base neurosurgery and cerebrovascular neurosurgery, adding further expertise for treating complex brain tumors, such as acoustic neuromas and meningiomas, vascular malformations, such as aneurysms and AVMs, and cerebral bypass.