John Strugar, MD

Dr. Strugar’s areas of neurosurgical expertise are comprehensive and his thirty years of experience extends to intracranial and spine tumors, cervical and lumbar spine disorders and spine and brain injuries. Fellowship-trained in skull base surgery, Dr. Strugar has profound insight into complex neurosurgical challenges. He has a prodigious experience in the surgical treatment of the spine, having performed thousands of both maximally and minimally invasive procedures.

Dr. Strugar has published and presented on a wide range of topics, including brain tumors, spine tumors, acute spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury. A caring, dedicated and respected neurosurgeon, he is also highly experienced and sought after as a diagnostician and as an independent expert medical evaluator. He has been selected as “Connecticut Magazine’s Best Doctors” for nine years in a row.

Clinical Interests: Lumbar Disc Herniation, Lumbar Degenerative Disc Disease, Lumbar Stenosis, Cervical Degenerative Disc Disease, Cervical Disc Herniation, Cervical Stenosis, Cervical Artificial Discs, Degenerative Spondyloisthesis, Cervical Degenerative Disc Disease, Stereotactic Computer Assisted Navigation: Image Guided Spine Surgery, Vertebral Compression Fracture, Isthmic Spondylolisthesis, Neck Sprain, ALIF, DLIF, PLIF, TLIF, RobotiSurgery.