The Neurosurgery Research & Education Foundation and American Academy of Neurological Surgery (AAcNS) have presented the 2019-2020 NREF Research Fellowship Grant to Washington University neurosurgery resident Bhuvic Patel, MD. Dr. Patel will investigate biomarkers and mechanisms of radiation resistance in Grade II meningiomas. Patel will report on his research progress at the 2020 AAcNS meeting.
Pediatric neurosurgeon David D. Limbrick Jr., MD, PhD, a professor of neurosurgery and of pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named the T.S. Park, MD, Chair in Pediatric Neurosurgery at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. See Washington University School of Medicine press release.
Gregory J. Zipfel, MD, a noted expert on aneurysms and other disorders of blood vessels in the brain, has been named head of the Department of Neurosurgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Zipfel also will become neurosurgeon-in-chief at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He will begin his new roles July 1. Read medical school press […]
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.
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.
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 […]
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. […]
David D. Limbrick, MD, PhD, an associate professor of neurological surgery and of pediatrics, received a Distinguished Service Teaching Award on Oct. 27 in a ceremony on the Medical Campus. He was the students’ nominee for the national Humanism in Medicine Award, which is presented annually by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).