Specialty	Neurological Surgery
Clinical Interests	Pituitary Diseases
	Brain Tumors
	Acoustic Tumors
Languages	English
	Spanish
Gender	Male
E-mail	kalmon.post@mountsinai.org
Education and Training	MD, NYU Medical Center
	Residency, Surgery/Neurosurgery, Bellevue Hospital Center
Awards	2003 - 2006 Best Doctors in the New York Metro Area Castle Connolly Guide
	2003 - 2006 America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly Guide
	2000 Award for dedication to mentoring and support of women in neurosurgery Friends of WINS
	1979 Faculty teaching award from class of 1979 Tufts University School of Medicine
	1967 Alpha Omega Alpha Society

Dr. Post, the Leonard I. Malis, M.D. / Corinne and Joseph Graber Professor, was selected in 1991 as the Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai where he also chairs the Faculty Practice Associates. Dr. Post began his academic career in 1976 as an Instructor of Neurosurgery at Tufts University School of Medicine. An Associate Professor, he left Tufts four years later to join the faculty at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons as an Associate Professor. Named Vice-Chairman of that Department in 1984, Dr. Post was promoted to Professor in 1987. In 1991 he moved to Mount Sinai. He has been President of the New York Neurosurgical Society and the New York State Neurosurgical Society and is presently on the Editorial Board of Neurosurgery. Dr. Post is internationally known for his work and results treating pituitary and parasellar tumors, as well as cerebello-pontine angle tumors, particularly acoustic neuroma with hearing preservation. He is a member of the Endocrine Society as well as the Board of Directors of the Pituitary Society, and he is on the advisory board of the New York Chapter of the Acoustic Neuroma Society.

Education and Training	MD, NYU Medical Center
	Residency, Surgery/Neurosurgery, Bellevue Hospital Center
Board Certification	Neurological Surgery

Specialty	Neurological Surgery
Clinical Interests	Pituitary Diseases
	Brain Tumors
	Acoustic Tumors
Languages	English
	Spanish
Board Certification	Neurological Surgery

Long term clinical outcome studies of acoustic neuroma and pituitary tumor patients.

Laboratory studies involving the molecular biology of pituitary tumors.

Freda PU, Chung WK, Matsuoka N, Walsh JP, Kanibir MN, Kleinman G, Wang Y, Bruce JN, Post KD. Analysis of GNAS mutations in 60 GH secreting pituitary tumors: correlation with clinical and pathological characteristics and surgical outcome based on highly sensitive GH and IGF-1 criteria for remission. Pituitary 2007; 10: 275-282.

Puder JJ, Nilaver S, Post KD, Freda PU. Relationship between disease-related morbidity and biochemical markers in patients with acromegaly. JCEM 2005; 90: 1972-1978.

Benveniste RJ, King WA, Walsh J, Lee JC, Delman B, Post KD, . Transsphenoidal reoperation to treat recurrent or residual pituitary adenoma. J Neurosurg 2005; 102: 1004-1012.

Shrivastava RK, Epstein FJ, Perin NI, Post KD, Jallo GI. Intramedullary spinal cord tumors in patients older than 50 years of age: management and outcome analysis. J Neurosurg Spine 2005; 2: 249-255.

Betchen SA, Walsh J, Post KD. Long-term hearing preservation after acoustic neuroma surgery. J Neurosurg 2005; 102: 6-9.

Benveniste RJ, King WA, Walsh J, Lee JC, Naidich TP, Post KD. Surgery for Rathke's cleft cysts: Technical considerations and outcomes. J Neurosurg 2004; 101: 577-584.

Freda PU, Nuruzzaman AT, Reyes CM, Sundeen RE, Post KD. Significance of abnormal nadir GH levels after oral glucose in postoperative patients with acromegaly in remission with normal IGF-1 levels. JCEM 2004; 89: 495-500.

Betchen SA, Walsh J, Post KD. Self-assessed quality of life after acoustic neuroma surgery. J Neurosurg 2003; 99: 818-823.

Freda PU, Wardlaw SL, Post KD. Long-term endocrinologic follow-up of 115 patients after transsphenopidal surgery for acromegaly. J Neurosurgery 1998; 89: 353-358.