Benjamin Rush Hartley, M.D.

Dr. Benjamin Rush Hartley grew up in Central Oregon, graduating from the University of Oregon with Honors in Neuroscience, where he studied computational neurobiology. Thereafter, he moved to New York City in 2009 to serve with the Teach for America Corps as a middle school science teacher in the South Bronx, earning his Master’s Degree in Science Education in 2011.

Dr. Hartley earned his medical degree from SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, and completed his residency in Neurological Surgery at Weill-Cornell Medical College and Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital. Following residency, he completed a fellowship in Neurosurgical Oncology at Northwell Health and the Northshore University Hospital. Dr. Hartley’s primary interest areas are in the surgical management of brain tumors, trauma, radiosurgery, neurosurgical device development, and medical education.

Outside of the operating room, Dr. Hartley spends his time running the PrIMES Mentorship Program (www.primesmentorship.org), combating racial and ethnic disparities in medicine, which he co-founded in 2018, and playing music.