Dr. Bendok graduated from the Feinberg School of Medicine and completed his neurosurgical training at Northwestern Memorial Hospital with a focus on microsurgery for neurovascular diseases. He received the AANS/CNS Mullan Neuroendovascular Surgery Fellowship Award and completed a neuroendovascular surgery fellowship at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is a member of the Neurovascular Surgery Program and co-director of the Neuroendovascular Program at Northwestern. Dr. Bendok’s practice focuses on microsurgical, endovascular, and interventional treatment of diseases of the brain and spine. His medical society memberships include the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the Executive Council of the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Cerebrovascular Surgery, the American Society of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology, the Neurocritical Care Society, the American Society of Neuroradiology, and the Society of Endovascular Neurosurgeons

Dr. Bendok's expertise and special clinical interests include the following:

1. Brain aneurysm microsurgery and endovascular treatment

2. Brain and spinal cord vascular malformation and fistula treatment

3. Carotid endarterectomy and stenting

4. Angioplasty and stenting of vertebral and intracranial atherosclerosis

5. Surgical and endovascular management of acute stroke and vasospasm

6. Brain tumor surgery and embolization

7. Kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty for osteoporotic and metastatic compression fractures

8. Cervical and lumbar discectomy

9. Chiari malformation

10. Vascular malformation of the head and neck in coordination with plastic surgery

Comprehensive, state-of-the-art care for Dr. Bendok’s patients is provided by a multidisciplinary team with specialists in physiatry, neurology, oncology, radiation oncology, plastic surgery, gamma knife, and interventional pain management. Dr. Bendok may be reached for consultations at (312) 695-2633.  His nurse, Suzanne Matney, can be reached at (312) 695-1431.