Distinguished Panel Throws Down the Concussion Gauntlet: AANS Opening Ceremonies
Guest post from Brent R. O’Neill, MD Pediatric Neurosurgeon University of Colorado, Children’s Hospital Colorado Aurora, CO A retired pro-linebacker, an army general, a cable news personality, and a neurosurgeon walk into a bar . . . Actually, on May 1, 2016, they walked into Chicago’s McCormick Place for the Opening Ceremonies of the 84th […]
Cross Post – A Brain Surgeon’s Long Journey Home from the Iraq War
From time to time on Neurosurgery Blog you will see us cross-posting or linking to pieces from other places when we believe they really hit the mark on an issue. Today, in honor of Memorial Day, we wanted to take the time to highlight an article which originally appeared in the Spring Congress Quarterly (cnsq) […]
Military Faces of Neurosurgery – A Hero So Named
Carlos A. David, MD, FAANS Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Tufts University School of Medicine Director of Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Surgery, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center Burlington, MA It is shortly after midnight, April 17, 1961. The paratroopers of “A” company, 1st Battalion anxiously await the moment their C-46 plane will be airborne. One paratrooper […]
Military Faces of Neurosurgery – Silver Lining in the Black Cloud of the Civil War: Improved Medical Education
Guest post from Michael Schulder, MD, FAANS Residency Program Director Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery Director, Brain Tumor Center Hofstra North Shore LIJ School of Medicine North Shore University Hospital Lake Success, NY This year marks the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War. While neurosurgery was not yet a […]
Service as a Neurosurgeon: My Mentors as the Military Face of Neurosurgery
Col (ret) Rocco A. Armonda, MD, FAANS; Director of Neuroendovascular Surgery for MedStar Washington Hospital Center and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital; Director of Neurosurgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Washington, DC A man should be judged by the “dust on his sandals and not the polish on his boots.” During the […]
Military Faces of Neurosurgery – Vietnam 1968-1969: A Place and Year Like No Other
Guest Post from Deborah L. Benzil, MD, FACS, FAANS Vice President, AANS Chair, AANS/CNS Communications and Public Relations Committee MKMG Columbia University Medical Center Mt Kisco, New York Their backgrounds couldn’t have been more divergent, yet fate brought the lives of Stan Pelofsky, MD, FAANS and Patrick Kelly, MD, FAANS together in the Da Nang field hospital during […]
The Military Faces of Neurosurgery
Guest Post from Deborah L. Benzil, MD, FACS, FAANS Vice President, AANS Chair, AANS/CNS Communications and Public Relations Committee MKMG Columbia University Medical Center Mt Kisco, New York For the past year, we have regularly shown the many Faces of Neurosurgery. We have featured many wonderful stories that exemplify the courage, dedication, ingenuity and generosity […]