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Maxwell Laurans, MD, MBA, FAANS

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
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Senior Vice President, Neurosciences, Orthopaedics, and Surgical Services, Yale New Haven Hospital

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Neurosurgery

333 Cedar Street, TMP 4, PO Box 208082

New Haven, CT 06520-8082

United States

About

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Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Senior Vice President, Neurosciences, Orthopaedics, and Surgical Services, Yale New Haven Hospital

Biography

Maxwell Laurans is an assistant professor of Neurosurgery at the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Laurans received his M.D. with honors from the Yale School of Medicine where he was a Howard Hughes Fellow. After a neurosurgical residency at Yale, he joined the Yale faculty in 2010. He specializes in minimally invasive spine surgery, spine tumor surgery, and spine radiosurgery. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgeons.

Dr. Laurans is also Vice President of Surgical Services and Clinical Chief of Perioperative Services at Yale-New Haven Hospital and provides leadership and direction for all aspects of surgical services for the hospital and the health system. He is an Advisory Board Member of the Center for Biomedical Innovation and Technology (CBIT) at Yale and the YNHH Innovation Executive Committee.

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Education & Training

Residency
Yale-New Haven Hospital (2009)
MBA
Harvard Business School, Business (2007)
MD
Yale University School of Medicine (2003)

Research

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Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Maxwell Laurans's published research.

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2022

2021

Clinical Care

Overview

Maxwell Laurans, MD, is a neurosurgeon at Yale Medicine who specializes in spine tumors and degenerative spine conditions. He begins each patient interaction by asking in-depth questions about symptoms, complaints and patient history to figure out the source of the problem. Dr. Laurans believes in taking his time to get to know his patients, who might require several visits.

In addition to understanding his patients’ conditions, Dr. Laurans works with his patients to define their personal goals, which he uses to develop a treatment plan that is more minimally invasive and maximally effective for the situation. “When people focus on something important to them, it allows them to take those next steps and to recover from their operations,” he says.

For Dr. Laurans, spine surgery is not just a procedure, it’s a passion, one that he identified early in medical school. “I love the excitement of discovering a new problem, identifying the issue, trying to design and execute the best intervention possible, and then, in the long run, helping people recover from that intervention to become more mobile, healthy, and able to enjoy their lives afterwards,” he says.

Clinical Specialties

Spine Surgery; Neurosurgery

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Board Certifications

  • Neurological Surgery

    Certification Organization
    AB of Neurological Surgery
    Original Certification Date
    2015

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Neurosurgery

333 Cedar Street, TMP 4, PO Box 208082

New Haven, CT 06520-8082

United States

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