Miami Neuroscience Center

Dr. Wolf is one of the few Ivy Leaguers I’ve met in this part of the world. He uses a Gamma Knife to treat Acustic Neuroma tumors and in my case it’s been all great for four years. The doctor is well respected in his field and was recommended to me
when this thing was diagnosed in Los Angeles.
One of the well know neurosurgeons at the House Ear Institute said, «See him if you want a proper job done.»
Dr. Wolf uses The Gamma Knife, at his state of the art facility, which is used to treat brain tumors by administering high-​intensity cobalt radiation therapy in a manner that concentrates the radiation over a small volume.
A Gamma Knife typically contains 201 cobalt-​60 sources of approximately 30 curies, each placed in a circular array in a heavily shielded assembly. The device aims gamma radiation through a target point in the patient’s brain. The patient wears a specialized helmet that is surgically fixed to the skull, so that the brain tumor remains stationary at the target point of the gamma rays. An ablative dose of radiation is thereby sent through the tumor in one treatment session, while surrounding brain tissues are spared.
Gamma Knife therapy, like all radiosurgery, uses doses of radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors, delivered precisely to avoid damaging healthy brain tissue. Gamma Knife radiosurgery is able to accurately focus many beams of gamma radiation to converge on one or more tumors. Each individual beam is of relatively low intensity, so the radiation has little effect on intervening brain tissue and is concentrated only at the tumor itself.
Gamma Knife radiosurgery has proven effective for patients with benign or malignant brain tumors up to 4 centimeters in size, vascular malformations such as an arteriovenous malformation (AVM), pain or other functional problems. For treatment of trigeminal neuralgia, the procedure may be used repeatedly on patients.
After my treatment I recovered immediately and have progressed from a guy walking along a sidewalk and bumping into telephone poles to a tennis playing guy who never wavers.
In a jiffy he cured the bloody thing. I get an MRI once a year and return for a read. Wolf is a Yale Medical School grad and that counts for a lot in my book.
I once visited Yale Medical in order to deliver a check from my father’s charitable foundation and was very impressed. The dean was a charmer and convinced me that the money would be spent as we had directed. (I think it’s the best medical school in the country.)
Their office is so pleasant and the décor is soothing. The parking is easy with a big lot directly in front. A walk of a few feet takes one to an elevator (The building has only two floors.) which opens directly in front of their door. It is nice to go to a treatment center and not have to walk a mile (UofM comes to mind.) and constantly ask directions. There was some good design and thought put into this location.
After I completed my consultation, I chatted with some the friendly staff who informed me that on my next visit I can have my MRI on the first floor and then immediately be wisked to Dr. Wolf on the second; now that is convenient.
Anyway, kudos for Dr. Wolf and his VERY snappy staff who are always spot on and make my visit smooth as silk.
For my money the only thing lacking here is an enlarged center with more doctors whose specialty field might be brain oncology and others whit specialities as Dr. Wolf determines necessary.
I was connected with a charitable foundation that gave mostly to medical and I think that with the right kind of foundation behind him Dr. Wolf could develop a major neuroscience center in Miami with world wide reputation.
Dr. Wolf’s center could be be a center of excellence in neuroscience and oncology that would work with new cancer treatments and he might partner with leading academic institutions around the country.
It is not a very big jump when you have the talent and foresight that is his.