Zachary L Hickman, MD

Zachary L. Hickman, MD, is a board-certified neurosurgeon and Associate Professor of Neurosurgery in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Mount Sinai Health System and Director of the Neurosurgery Department at NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst (Elmhurst Hospital Center) in Queens, NY. Dr. Hickman practices general neurosurgery and spine surgery, with a focus on neurotrauma and neurocritical care.

Dr. Hickman completed a post-graduate fellowship in neurotrauma and neurocritical care at Jackson Memorial Hospital and the world-renowned Ryder Trauma Center at the University of Miami Medical Center, under the directorship of M. Ross Bullock, MD, PhD. Dr. Hickman obtained his MD at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha honors society, and completed his neurosurgery residency at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.

Dr. Hickman’s clinical and research interests include general neurosurgery (with a specific focus on traumatic brain and spine injury), neurocritical care, intracranial multimodality monitoring, patient-oriented outcomes research, international neurosurgery, and quality improvement.

Dr. Hickman has been published in a variety of scholarly peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery, Neurocritical Care, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, and Stroke.