Former resident Vijay Ravindra received the Bobby Jones CSF Chiari research award at the AANS/CNS Section on Pediatric Neurological Surgery annual meeting for a paper he published with Drs. Douglas Brockmeyer and Robert Bollo and other department members. Their paper described the condylar–C2 sagittal vertical alignment (C-C2SVA) measurement, which they developed as a tool for assessing Chiari I malformation. This measurement may be useful for screening Chiari I malformation patients to identify those at greatest risk for requiring ventral decompression/occipitocervical fusion.
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University of Utah Health's Center for Medical Innovation Bench To Bedside Competition 2020 has announced that the Vizport device took Best in Engineering. 2020 resident graduate Michael Karsy, resident Brandon Sherrod, and medical students---Brandon Pope at the U and Brian Farnsworth at Ohio State---developed the device under the mentorship of Dr. Richard Schmidt from Neurosurgery and engineer Govind Subramanian. The Vizport device is designed to assist with visualization during shunt placement for hydrocephalus surgery....
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John Rolston, MD, PhD, and patient Mark Armstrong discuss the use of MRI-guided Focused Ultrasound for the treatment of essential tremor. https://t.co/7TKoW4efZs?amp=1
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An article first-authored by Neurosurgery resident Jeffery Nadel MD, MS, has recently been selected as Editor's Choice in the June 2020 edition of NEUROSURGERY. ...
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An article written by Resident Bornali Kundu and coauthors Wala Awad, Min Park, Ramesh Grandhi, Toby Eniss, and Gregory Hawryluk has been selected as a World Neurosurgery journal Editor’ Choice article for March 2020....
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A paper that used the University’s Value Driven Outcomes database to evaluate factors that cause cost variation in neurosurgical procedures was chosen as one of the Editor’s Choices articles for the June 2019 issue of World Neurosurgery. Residents Michael Karsy and Jian Guan worked with medical students under the supervision of Dr. William Couldwell on this research....
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Resident alum Vijay Ravindra's paper on the global incidence of degenerative spine disease named best/most downloaded for 2018 by Global Spine Journal ...
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Dr. John Rolston is in the middle of conducting a delicate, life-changing brain surgery, but there is no inflection of anxiousness in his voice, no sign of tension in his demeanor....
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This year, the Neuroscience Initiative at the University of Utah funded five one-year pilot collaborative seed grant projects for up to $50,000 in research areas that align with the Neuroscience Initiative mission of deepening our understanding of the brain and transforming this knowledge into innovative solutions for patient care. The Neuroscience Initiative links basic, translational, and clinical research in five disease pillar areas:...
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Each year, the Neurosurgery Research & Education Foundation provide Research Fellowships and Young Clinician Investigator Awards to fund basic, translational, and patient-oriented clinical researchers. This year, fourth-year resident Bornali Kundu, MD, PhD, was awarded the NREF and AANS/CNS Section on Neurotrauma & Critical Care 2018-19 Research Fellowship Grant...
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How do you recover from a concussion? There’s a process to follow. Not following doctors’ recommendations can lead to bigger problems in the future. Neurosurgeon Dr. Greg Hawryluk covers the six steps doctors prescribe to athletes for concussion recovery. The steps also work if you aren’t an athlete. Most important: If you think you have suffered from a concussion, you still should see a doctor....
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