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Neurosurgeon Dorothy Klenke Nash (October 24, 1898 – March 5, 1976) was an American surgeon based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . She was considered the first American woman to become a neurosurgeon , and the only American woman neurosurgeon from 1928 to 1960.
Ruth Kerr Jakoby (born September 2, 1929) is an American neurosurgeon. Biography. Ruth Kerr Jakoby was born on September 2, 1929, in Palo Alto, California. [2]
Neurosurgery or neurological surgery, known in common parlance as brain surgery, is the medical specialty that focuses on the surgical treatment or rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nervous system, and cerebrovascular system. [1]
Ralph Bingham Cloward (September 24, 1908 — November 13, 2000) was an American neurosurgeon, best known for his innovations in spinal neurosurgery.Cloward is known for the development of the Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion and Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion. [1]
The Neurosurgery Residency Program at Barrow is the largest in the United States, training four residents per academic year, [2] for a total of 28 residents. In 2009 he became the Chief of the Spine Section at the Barrow Neurological Institute and was appointed the Volker K.H. Sonntag Chair in 2015.
John A. Jane, Sr. (September 21, 1931 – September 18, 2015) was an American neurosurgeon, and Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Virginia. [1] He was Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Virginia from 1969 to 2006. [2]
Ricardo Jorge Komotar is an American neurosurgeon who specializes in the field of brain tumors. He serves as director of the University of Miami Brain Tumor Initiative, [ 1 ] director of the UM Neurosurgery Residency Program, and director of the UM Surgical Neurooncology Fellowship Program.
He was named professor and chairman of the Division of Neurosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco in 1968. [3] According to Dr. Susan Chang, director of UCSF's neuro-oncology division, “[Wilson] was a visionary in how he built a multidisciplinary approach to studying brain cancer, linking basic science and clinical research ...