Author: Brian

Fourth year Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis student Amar Shah won a trainee award at the 2018 Congress of Neurological Surgeons Meeting October 6-10 in Houston.

Neurosurgeon Gregory J. Zipfel, MD, co-director, Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center, provided a second opinion to Krysta Owings, a 25-year-old woman who suffered a stroke.

Ralph G. Dacey, Jr., MD, the Henry G & Edith R Schwartz Professor and Chairman of Neurological Surgery, gave opening remarks at the “Update on the Management of Pituitary Tumors 2018,” held on September 15, 2018 at the St. Louis College of Pharmacy.

Jin Vivian Lee, soon a second-year medical student at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is one of 60 recipients to receive a $5,000 summer research fellowship from the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Medical Society.

Adding to the many honors Ralph G. Dacey Jr., MD, has received over his career, the neurosurgeon is now the namesake for an award that pays tribute to his spirit and accomplishments in the area of cerebrovascular research, his myriad contributions to neurosurgery, and his unwavering leadership in the area of resident training and education.

T.S. Park, the Shi H. Huang professor of neurosurgery, is a pioneer in the use of selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR), a spinal surgery that he performs at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. In the procedure, Park severs the nerves that cause spasticity. Park has been performing SDR for 30 years, treating more than 3,700 patients from […]

Neurosurgery resident Jacob Greenberg, MD, PGY3, was interviewed for an article in The New York Times on managing head trauma in children. Dr. Greenberg was first author and David Limbrick, MD, PhD, professor of neurological surgery and neurosurgeon-in-chief at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, was senior author of an article in JAMA Pediatrics on developing a […]

David Limbrick, MD, professor of neurological surgery and neurosurgeon-in-chief at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, was senior author of a paper that won the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and NEUROSURGERY® Paper of the year award in Pediatrics. The paper will be recognized at the CNS 2017 Annual Meeting in Boston on October 7-11, 2017. The goal […]

The Joint Congress of the International Children’s Continence Society (ICCS) and The Society For Research Into Hydroephalus And Spina Bifida (SRHSB) will meet at Washington University School of Medicine from  Wednesday, June 21, to Saturday, June 24. David D. Limrick, MD, PhD, professor of neurological surgery and pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine; James P. […]