Edward J. Zampella, MD is recognized as a leader in neurological surgery in the Northeast region and has been recognized as one of New Jersey’s "Top Docs" in New Jersey Monthly Magazine. Dr Zampella served as the Managing Partner of ANS and is a past President of the New Jersey Neurosurgical Society. Recently, after spending a few years focusing on practice management, Dr. Zampella has returned to being in full-time practice and offering a full range of services to his patients.
Dr. Zampella’s areas of clinical expertise include: Functional, Restorative and Stereotactic Neurosurgery; Stereotactic Radiosurgery; Brain/Spinal Tumors; Spinal Cord Stimulation/Intraspinal Drug Infusion; Trigeminal Neuralgia; Neurosurgical treatment of movement disorders/ tremor/spasticity; treatment of refractory epilepsy; Hydrocephalus, Endoscopic Surgery and much more.
Board Certified in 1991, Dr. Zampella is always well versed about new and innovative procedures that can benefit his patients. Dr. Zampella brought new and innovative technologies into the practice, as well as increased the number of neurosurgeons necessary to deliver access to the many surrounding communities.
Dr. Zampella is one of the few doctors on the East Coast to work with the revolutionary tool, the CyberKnife®. The CyberKnife® enables physicians to treat certain previously inoperable tumors with precise accuracy and non-invasively.
Dr. Zampella’s excellent reputation within the community and with his peers has helped make ANS the largest neurosurgical group in New Jersey and the fifth neurosurgical practice in the country.
Dr. Edward Zampella received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and his MD from the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham, Alabama. His post-graduate training was completed at The Graduate Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and his residency training was completed at the University of Alabama Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, as well as the Children’s Hospital of Alabama (pediatric neurosurgery). He completed post-doctoral neurology training at the Hospital for Nervous Diseases: Queen Square in London, England.
