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4 unusual facts about neurosurgery


Charles Alfred Ballance

For much of his professional life he was associated with St. Thomas' Hospital and National Hospital, Queen Square in London.

Muhammad Afrizal

He was taken to Royal Hospital in Jakarta, and later transferred to Christian University of Jakarta UKI Hospital, where he died four days after brain surgery to remove a blood clot.

Portrait of a Hitman

A professional hitman who doubles as a painter is hired to kill a brain surgeon.

Richard Béliveau

Richard Béliveau (born 1953 in Trois-Rivières, Quebec) is currently the director of the Molecular Medicine Laboratory and a researcher in the Department of Neurosurgery at Notre-Dame Hospital.


Axel Perneczky

Dr. Perneckzky was the editor of the journal Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, published by Thieme.

Brian Vala Nahed

He is a graduate of the Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard School of Public Health and is actively engaged in research studying the socioeconomic aspects and outcomes in neurosurgery.

Bustamante Hospital for Children

The hospitals deals with General Medicine, Cardiology, Neurology, Asthma and Respiratory ailments, Nephrology, Dermatology, Rheumatology, General Surgery, Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Urology, Ears, Nose and Throat (ENT), Plastic and Burns, Ophthalmology and more.

Cynthia Brooke, Viscountess Brookeborough

Following her death Lord Brookeborough married Sarah Eileen Bell, daughter of Henry Healey, of Belfast, and widow of Cecil Armstrong Calvert FRCS, director of neurosurgery at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast.

Dong Kim

Dr. Kim has authored studies in journals including Nature Genetics, Brain Research, International Journal of Cancer, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Journal of Neurosurgery and Genes, Chrom, Cancer.

Geoffrey Jefferson

By 1934, he was a neurosurgeon at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, becoming the UK's first professor of neurosurgery at the University of Manchester five years later.

Geraint the Snakeman

Hopkins has been a controversial figure politically standing up for local causes including the fight to save the Prince Phillip Hospital A&E department and the neurosurgery at Morriston Hospital.

Glasgow Coma Scale

The scale was published in 1974 by Graham Teasdale and Bryan J. Jennett, professors of neurosurgery at the University of Glasgow's Institute of Neurological Sciences at the city's Southern General Hospital.

Gopal Baratham

In 1954 he registered at the Medical College of the University of Malaya, Singapore, and, after studying at the Royal London Hospital in 1965, he entered the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Edinburgh in 1969.

Grady Memorial Hospital

CNN's medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who is Associate Chief of Neurosurgery at Grady, filmed a documentary at the hospital called Grady's Anatomy (a play on Grey's Anatomy) that aired in 2007 for CNN Special Investigations Unit.

Hemispherectomy Foundation

Ben Carson, M.D., Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland is the Honorary Chair of the foundation's Medical Advisory Board.

Michael K. Morgan

Following completion of his neurosurgical training in 1986 at Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Morgan undertook a Fellowship in Neurosurgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, under the mentorship of Thoralf M. Sundt.

Michael Meaney

Meaney is Associate Director of the Research Centre at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Director of the Program for the Study of Behaviour, Genes and Environment, and James McGill Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University.

Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital

Penfield's technique for epilepsy neurosurgery became known as the Montreal procedure.

Nikolay Burdenko

The following were named after Burdenko: SRI of the neurosurgery in Moscow, Сentral military hospital, the faculty of the surgical clinic of the Sechenov's medical academy, Penza provincial clinical hospital, streets in Moscow and Voronezh, an asteroid (6754 Burdenko)

Radiosurgery

It was invented by John R. Adler, a Stanford University Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology and Russell and Peter Schonberg at SCHONBERG RESEARCH, and is sold by the Accuray company, located in Sunnyvale, California.

Richard B. North

He was Professor of Neurosurgery, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins for 10 years, and a member of the full-time faculty for 25.

Richard Béliveau

Additionally, he holds the Claude-Bertrand Chair in Neurosurgery at the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal.

Roy Glenwood Spurling

He was posted to London in March 1944 with responsibility for neurosurgery in the European theatre.

Seoul National University Bundang Hospital

Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, consists of 6 departments : the Geriatric Medical Centre, Heart Centre, Cranial nerve Centre, Lung Centre, Articulation Centre, and the Health Improvement Centre, and 23 departments, such as Internal Medicine, Surgery, Chest Surgery, Neurosurgery, Orthopaedics, Plastic Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Pediatrics.

St. Cloud Hospital

Inpatient and outpatient surgery serves patients requiring trauma, orthopedic, urological, ear/nose/throat, retina, cardiovascular, neurological, plastic and bariatric surgery.


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