Thomas J Grobelny, MD is a Interventional Neuroradiologist at NorthShore University HealthSystem and formerly was the medical director of
the Neurovascular and Stroke Prevention
Program
at the Neurologic & Orthopedic
Hospital of
Chicago, Director of the CINN
Neurovascular and
Stroke Intervention Program and Director
of Neurovascular
and Stroke Intervention Program at
Advocate Christ
Medical Center.
Dr Grobelny is one of the most experienced endovascular
specialists in the country with almost
10 years
of personal experience and is the only
one who
is bilingual in Polish and English. His
expertise
includes the full-range of
neuroendovascular interventions,
including coiling of the most complex
aneurysms,
carotid/vertebral and intracranial
stenting, intracranial
and extracranial AVM embolization, acute
stroke
treatment,
as well as vertebroplasty and
kyphoplasty to treat
vertebral compression fractures that
cause back
pain. Dr. Grobelny is also trained to
use Gamma
Knife radiosurgery for the treatment of
complex
AVMs and other cranial disorders.
Dr. Grobelny began his medical training
in 1986
where he attended the School of
Medicine, Wroclaw,
Poland. He performed his residency at
Columbia
University, HHC, New
York,
New York. After completing his
residency, Dr.
Grobelny completed fellowships in
Endovascular
Surgical Neuroradiology/Interventional
Neuroradiology
at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital,
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania and University of
California at Los
Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine.
Dr. Grobelny began his practice in
Kansas City
where he was Director of
Neurointerventional Surgery
and one of the faculty members of the
highly respected
Mid-America Brain and Stroke Institute
(MABSI)
at St. Luke's Hospital. He joined CINN
in March
2007 and NorthShore in February of 2010. He has offices at Skokie Hospital and
Advocate Christ
Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Illinois.