Dr. Carolina Gesteira BenjaminUSA
University of Miami
Current Position
2019 to present University of Miami
Specialty & Expertise
Skull Base, Complex Cranial, Neurooncology, Radiosurgery
About Me
Dr.Carolina Benjamin is a neurosurgeon at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine who specializes in cranial neurosurgery, with a particular interest skull base surgery. She treats all aspects of skull base pathology (including meningiomas, pituitary tumors, schwannomas, acoustic neuromas, paragangliomas, craniopharyngiomas, etc) using both open approaches and the endoscopic endonasal approaches. She also treats all areas of neuro-oncology, including primary brain tumors as well as brain metastases and has an active radiosurgery practice. She incorporates the most novel techniques such as minimally invasive surgery, expanded endonasal approaches, awake craniotomies, fluorescence guided surgery, advanced brain mapping, augmented reality, and the use of advanced neuro-imaging, allowing a safer and more complete surgery to be achieved.
Presentation Information
Surgical Nuances of Peri-optic Meningiomas
1110 13:20-13:30
AASNS / AANS Joint Session "Spetzler Symposium"/305
Presentation Information
Management of Clival Chordomas
1108 13:00-13:10
Skull Base/304A
Presentation Information
1. Expanded endoscopic trans-clival approach for chordoma 2. Anterior trans-petrosal approach for meningioma 3. Orbito-cranial approach for lateral cavernous chondrosarcoma
1109 15:20-15:30
Video Presentation/304B