Twelve-year-old Jackson Scharf sustained a devastating hemorrhage in his cerebellum, the lowest portion of the brain towards the back of the skull. He had an arteriovenous malformation (AVM) and was saved by the efforts of David Limbrick, MD, chief of pediatric neurosurgery, and the neurosurgical team at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. See Fox2 news story.
Washington University spinal neurosurgeons at Barnes-Jewish Hospital performed the first navigated robotic-assisted minimally-invasive spine surgery in Missouri on Tuesday, July 23, 2019. Wilson Zachary Ray, MD, and Ammar H. Hawasli, MD, PhD, used the technique for a spinal fusion procedure on a 79-year-old patient from St. Louis. The operation took less than 2 hours, and […]
Washington University’s Outlook magazine features the groundbreaking research of neurosurgeon Eric Leuthardt, MD, focusing on the brain’s capacity to rewire itself. See article.
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 […]