Wellstar Neurosurgery

Hilarie C. Tomasiewicz, MD, PhD, is a functional neurosurgeon who specializes in the surgical treatment of movement disorders, epilepsy and pain. She joined the Wellstar Neurosurgery Group in November 2022 after serving as an assistant professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology and Neuroscience at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

Dr. Tomasiewicz obtained her bachelor’s degree in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA. She received both her medical degree (MD) and her doctorate in neuroscience (PhD) from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, where she was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. Dr. Tomasiewicz completed her neurosurgical residency training at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Hospital in New York, NY. She then completed a fellowship in stereotactic and functional neurosurgery and surgical epilepsy at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, GA.

Dr. Tomasiewicz has specific expertise in caring for patients with movement disorders, seizures and chronic pain.

Areas of Focus

• Dystonia
• Epilepsy
• Essential tremor
• Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH)
• Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
• Pain
  • Cancer/palliative
  • Chronic pain
  • Facial pain
  • Trigeminal neuralgia
• Parkinson’s disease
• Post-laminectomy syndrome
• Seizures
• Spasticity
• Tourette’s Syndrome

Dr. Martinez is a Vascular and Interventional Neurologist who specializes in treating blood vessel disorders of the brain and spine. His focus is on providing the best medical or minimally invasive surgical treatments for patients suffering from stroke, carotid stenosis, aneurysms, vascular malformations, and brain bleeding, among other disorders. He has a special interest in treatment of complex CSF disorders including idiopathic intracranial hypertension and spontaneous CSF leaks, as well as pulsatile tinnitus.

After graduating Magna Cum Laude from medical school, Dr. Martinez completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at Johns Hopkins in Neuroscience developing novel patented technologies for treatment of brain disease. He then pursued Neurology residency at Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston where he continued as a Vascular Neurology Fellow focusing on stroke and cerebrovascular diseases. He then completed a second fellowship in Endovascular Neurosurgery / Interventional Neurology at UT Houston Memorial Hermann Hospital, one of the busiest Level 1 Trauma and Comprehensive Stroke Centers in the country. During his training he has been heavily involved in research with focus on genetics, AI in stroke, idiopathic intracranial hypertension or pseudotumor, brain aneurysms and minimally invasive treatments for brain bleeding, publishing numerous innovative manuscripts, book chapters and patents. He has also been part of many national clinical trials and was recruited to spearhead new innovative initiatives for clinical trial research at Wellstar. He practices at both Wellstar Kennestone and North Fulton medical centers.

Areas of Focus

• Aneurysm
• Arteriovenous malformation
• Arteriovenous fistula
• Intracranial atherosclerotic disease or stenosis
• Carotid stenosis
• Stroke
• Vasculopathy / Vasculitis
• Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome (RCVS)
• Subdural hematoma
• Intracranial hemorrhage
• Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension or Pseudotumor
• Pulsatile tinnitus
• CSF Venous Fistula or Intracranial hypotension

Dr. Franklin Lin received his bachelor’s degree in engineering from Duke University in Durham, NC. He received his medical degree from the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, FL. Dr. Lin completed his internship and neurosurgery residency at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA.

Dr. Lin is a diplomate of the American Board of Neurological Surgeons. He is a fellow of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, a member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and a board member of the Georgia Neurological Society.

I joined Wellstar in August 2010, after spending three years as an assistant professor of neurosurgery at Emory University. I attended medical school at Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine. I completed my internship in general surgery at Loyola University Medical Center, where I was named Resident of the Year in 2001. I completed my six year neurosurgery residency at Loyola University Medical center. I have specialty training in complex spinal disease, adult spinal deformity, and spinal oncology. I have training In advanced neuro-oncology techniques for removing brain tumors safely, and In some patients, without making a large incision. I use high definition scopes and video to remove some tumors through small "key-hole" openings in the skull or sinuses. My approach to neurosurgery is best described as patient-centered. I spend time with my patients, and I talk to them, not at them.

Areas of Focus