Dr. Michael Egnor

Dr. Michael Egnor is Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at the Renaissance School of Medicine at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, where he’s also Director of the Neurosurgery Residency Program. His practice includes patients diagnosed with Arnold Chiari deformity, hydrocephalus, cranio-synostosis, brain tumors, and spina bifida, as well as children with severe head trauma. He has an international reputation for research on hydrocephalus, and he is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Hydrocephalus Association in the United States. His book with Denyse O’Leary, “The Immortal Mind” (2025, Worthy Press) uses case studies to demonstrate that the soul is immaterial and immortal.

Dr. Egnor received his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University and trained in neurosurgery at the University of Miami. He has been on faculty at Stony Brook since 1991, and previously served as the director of pediatric neurosurgery and as vice-chairman of neurosurgery at Stony Brook Medicine. In addition to a full-time neurosurgical practice, he directs a research program on intracranial dynamics, cerebral blood flow and hydrocephalus and has lectured at scientific meetings worldwide and published in leading medical journals including the Journal of Neurosurgery and Cerebrospinal Fluid Research. He has a strong interest in Thomistic philosophy, philosophy of mind, neuroscience, evolution and intelligent design, and bioethics, and has published and lectured extensively on these topics.

Dr. Egnor was named one of New York's best doctors by New York Magazine in 2005.