Dr. Gardner Bio

Dr. Paul Gardner is the Peter J. Jannetta Endowed Chair of neurological surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and director of the Center for Skull Base Surgery. He specializes in endoscopic endonasal skull base surgery, pituitary tumors, Neuroendoport brain surgery, and vascular neurosurgery.

Other areas of specialty include: cranial nerve disorders; minimally invasive surgery; peripheral nerve surgery.

Dr. Gardner received his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he also completed his residency and a two-year fellowship focusing on endoscopic endonasal pituitary and open skull base surgical techniques. His research has focused on evaluating patient outcomes following these surgeries, as well as exploring molecular analysis in rare tumors.

Dr. Gardner has been the neurosurgical director of the Center for Cranial Base Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center since April of 2008, and leads a renowned course on endoscopic endonasal surgery three times a year.

Dr. Gardner is a also member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, and North American Skull Base Society.

Although I shadowed Dr. Gardner at UPMC Prebyterian, Dr. Gardner has Hospital Privileges at UPMC Mercy and UPMC Children's Hospital.

Neurosurgeons treat disorders of the brain and nervous system, meninges, skull, pituitary gland, spinal cord, meninges and vertebral column, and cranial and spinal nerves. They use minimally invasive surgery, neuroradiology imaging like CT, MRI, PET, MEG. Patients may go to a neurosurgeon for conditions like hemorrhages, hydrocephalus, head or spinal cord trauma, spinal disc herniation, infections and tumors.