David P. Bray, MD

David P. Bray, MD, MSc is a fellowship-trained neurosurgeon specializing in minimally-invasive/endoscopic cranial base and spine surgery, neurosurgical oncology, and pituitary surgery. He works with a multidisciplinary team of oncologists, ENT surgeons, neurologists, and radiation oncologists. He has expertise in treating disorders of the skull base, including pituitary tumors, meningiomas, acoustic/vestibular schwannomas, cranial nerve disorders (trigeminal & glossopharyngeal neuralgia and hemifacial spasm), normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH), as well as metastases to the brain and gliomas. Dr. Bray has expertise in treating patients with spine tumors and degenerative disease of the spine (neuroforaminal and spinal stenosis). He also performs radiosurgery where benign and malignant tumors of the brain are treated without incisions.

Dr. Bray graduated from the University of Notre Dame Magna Cum Laude where he was a double major in pre-medicine and history. When he graduated from medical school, he was an inductee in the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, an honor bestowed upon the highest achieving members of a medical school class.

During his fellowship training, he earned a master's degree in clinical research at the Emory Laney Graduate School through a grant issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). After residency, he completed a CAST-accredited fellowship in neurosurgical oncology and minimally invasive cranial base surgery at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He has published numerous scientific articles in peer-reviewed medical journals and has presented at national neurosurgical meetings.

Dr. Bray is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the North American Skull Base Society, and the Dr. Tom Dooley Society Medical Alumni of the University of Notre Dame.

In his free time, he enjoys reading literature, hiking, skiing, exercising, playing/watching sports, cooking, and spending time with his family.