Our residency program is the home of leaders in
#neurosurgery
, diversity in training and operative elegance! Our residents are trained to stand out! Check out this video highlighting what makes training at our institution unique!
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Congratulations to Dr. Adam Arthur
@AdamArthurMD
for becoming the new Chair of our UTHSC Department of Neurosurgery! We are beyond lucky to have his leadership and very excited for a brilliant future ahead for our department!
Our PGY-3 resident Dr. Kara Parikh had a great time in the OR clipping a middle cerebral artery aneurysm! Our residents get excellent microsurgical experience early in their training!
With only 62 days to go before starting her pediatric neurosurgery fellowship at Vanderbilt, our talented chief Dr. Dacus is still full steam ahead making easy work of a ventral thoracic meningioma with Dr. Fountain. Proud of you, Mallory!
Exciting news— our VLSO application is now open. If you are interested in a sub-I at a program with an ‘early & often’ approach to operative exposure, diverse faculty, and great camaraderie, you should apply! Dates are flexible to fit your schedule. The rotation will include…
We had the honor of celebrating the graduation of super star chiefs Dr. William Mangham
@wmmangham
and Dr. Garrett Venable! Both fellowship trained spine neurosurgeons, both starting their careers in Louisiana! We are very proud of you and excited for your future careers!
We had the honor of celebrating the graduation of super star chiefs Dr. Kenny Moore and Dr. Vince Nguyen
@vnnguyen
! Budding dual trained cerebrovascular neurosurgeons, Dr. Nguyen will pursue his fellowship
@NeurosurgeryUSC
, while Dr. Moore will complete his fellowship in Memphis!
Here is our PGY-6 Resident Dr. Vince Nguyen
@vnnguyen
, chief of service at Methodist University Hospital, clipping a ruptured Posterior Communicating Artery Aneurysm!
Join us on Tuesday, September 26th at 5PM CST/6 PM EST for a
#Virtual
Introduction and Open House to our residency program!
Hear from our program leadership and residents in what makes training in Memphis exceptional! Q&A to follow!
Sign-up here:
We are now accepting visiting sub-I rotators at our department starting in June! Applications accepted via
#VLSO
. We are flexible with off-cycle scheduling and are taking 5 students per block! Further inquiries per welliot3
@uthsc
.edu
#neurosurgery
#subinternship
#Match2024
We are now accepting Sub-I rotators at our Neurosurgery Department starting in June! Applications accepted via
#VLSO
. We are flexible with off-cycle scheduling and are taking 5 students per block! Further inquiries per welliot3
@uthsc
.edu
#neurosurgery
#subinternship
#Match2023
Our department prides itself in having residents who push themselves to achieve both personal and professional goals. Our PGY-4 resident Kara Parikh ran her first full
@StJude
marathon while service chief at
@Lebonheur
Children’s, in support of her brain and spine tumor patients.
As we conclude our neurosurgery resident interviews for this cycle, we are thankful for meeting such extremely talented applicants! Our PGY-4 residents, Dr. Kara Parikh and Dr. Jock Lillard, set the stage for another successful year of interviews!
#neurosurgery
#match2022
All smiles and hard work at our recent spine deformity lab. With the help of our faculty and a few T10-pelvises later, we learned about osteotomies, AI-assisted correction, and robotic pedicle screw placement
We wish the best of luck to all the residents taking the ABNS
#Neurosurgery
Written Boards tomorrow! We are thankful for our PGY-3 residents for helping our PGY-2s and interns get ready for the test!
For this month's Virtual Visiting Professor Lecture, we had the pleasure to host Dr. Paul Park of
@umichneuro
! Dr. Park gave an excellent talk on Spinal Deformity Management!
We are proud to have won the first ever
@NREFORG
#CushingBowl
at the 2022
@AANSNeuro
. Our residents enjoyed celebrating this achievement, and were very excited to hold the inaugural
#trophy
.
We had the pleasure of having Dr. Praveen Mummameni of
@NeurosurgUCSF
to give a Visiting Professor Lecture this week on the topic of Spine Neurosurgery!
Congratulations to our graduating residents and super chiefs Dr. Jaafar Basma, will be doing a Skull Base Fellowship with Dr. Ali Krisht, and Dr. Doug Taylor, who will be staff at Jackson-Madison General! We are looking forward to hearing about your success and achievements!!
Our past two Monday night conferences we had a spine lab focused on cervical approaches and a skull base lab focused on the Middle Fossa Kawase approach! Excellent learning opportunities for our residents and medical students!
We are happy to host the
@AANSNeuro
@NREFORG
‘Endovascular and Vascular Techniques Course for Senior Residents’ starting later today at the
@MERIofMemphis
! Highlighted are our junior residents practicing pterional craniotomies to help prep for the course!
Our residents enjoy early and broad operative experience! Highlighted is our PGY-2 resident
@emal_lesha
assisting staff Dr. Andrew Boucher during the endoscopic fenestration of an intracranial cyst!
This week’s conference focused on
#endoscopic
endonasal pituitary approaches! Thank you to
@SanjeetR
and
@uthscent
residents for sharing your experience!
For medical students interested in
#neurosurgery
and who want to learn more about our department, staff and residents, we invite you to join our weekly virtual teaching conferences! Sign up below!
#medtwitter
#Match2022
We are excited to participate at this year's
@CNS
Virtual Residency Fair! Our designated session will be tomorrow August 2nd at 10:45 am CST. Any questions will be welcomed! Looking forward to seeing you there!
Great to see Dr. Robertson, Dr. Sorenson and our chief resident Dr. Kenneth Moore perform last night with their band Memphis Soul Remedy at LaFayette's Music Room in Memphis!!
Our intern Dr. Camille Milton assisting Chief Resident Dr. Mangham
@wmmangham
on an ACDF at our trauma hospital! Our residents get surgical experience since day 1 of training!
UTHSC Neurosurgery is excited to invite prospective resident applicants to learn more about our program by joining resident conferences, grand rounds, and other virtual events!! For anyone interested, please fill out this survey:
We were excited to host Dr. Sonia Eden
@soniaedenmd
, Chief of Neurosurgery
@DMC_Heals
and our former
#MIS
Fellow, for the annual DeSaussure Lecture! Honored to have Dr. Eden share her experience with our resident team, especially with our stellar female
#neurosurgery
residents!
An exciting past few weeks for our residents as they get to use virtual reality assisted technologies during spine and cranial procedures, followed by a Monday night conference on cranial applications of VR by
@Brainlab
!
We are extremely excited to be accepting on-site Sub-I rotators at our Neurosurgery Department starting this June. Applications accepted via
#VLSO
. We are flexible with off-cycle scheduling and are taking 5 students per block!!
#neurosurgery
#subI
#Match2022
For this year’s Dr. Jon Robertson Lecture Series, we had the honor to host Dr. John Wilson, Past President of
@AANSNeuro
and staff at Wake Forest Neurosurgery. Dr. Wilson gave his lecture on ‘Carotid Artery Disease’.
For this year’s Dr. Jon Robertson Visiting Professor Series, we had the honor to host Dr. Regis Haid, Past President of AANS, who talked to our residents about Culture and Leadership! We were lucky to have past, current and future
@AANSNeuro
presidents join the dinner!
Microsurgical Clip Ligation of Ruptured, Previously Coiled A2-A3 Aneurysm In a Pediatric Patient
@KhanNickalus
@AdamArthurMD
@cvsection
Lucky to have excellent open cerebrovascular training in Memphis
Wonderful times last night as we celebrated the baby shower of our chief resident Dr. Mallory Dacus, hosted by staff Dr. Einhaus! Excited to have a new member join our big family!!
Dr. Jock Lillard, PGY3 resident, removing a motor strip metastatic lesion with Dr. Jeff Sorenson! A great case and another demonstration of the excellent microsurgical training our residents get through the 4 handed technique!
We were thrilled to have our Chairman
@AdamArthurMD
speak to
#neurosurgery
applicants, highlighting the sub specialty of Vascular Neurosurgery and the involvement of our department in advancing the field.
#Match2022
UTHSC Neurosurgery has joined
#neurosurgerytwitter
!! We are excited to share more about our department and outstanding training program! Follow us to learn about our residents, attendings and developments!
@CNS_Update
@AANSNeuro
To all interested
#Neurosurgery
applicants: sign up below to learn about our program, get to know our faculty and residents, and learn a ton from our weekly resident conferences and grand rounds:
@UncleHarveyNSG
@BrainSpineGroup
UTHSC Neurosurgery is excited to invite prospective resident applicants to learn more about our program by joining resident conferences, grand rounds, and other virtual events!! For anyone interested, please fill out this survey:
Thank you Dr. Lee Tan from
@NeurosurgUCSF
for an excellent lecture to our resident and faculty! Timely discussion on an important topic in Neurosurgery. Another superb Visiting Professor Grand Rounds at our department!
Groundbreaking publication from our institution focused on BCVI grading scale published
@NeurosurgeryCNS
! Congratulations to senior resident
@MMotiwalaMD
, staff
@KhanNickalus
and the rest of the team for the work!
The AANS is thrilled to debut its new podcast series It’s Not Brain Surgery, which highlights neurosurgeons and their experiences from their time in the industry. In episode 1,
@AdamArthurMD
discusses how he navigates interdisciplinary teams.
Our PGY4 residents getting their personalized, annual MIS TLIF laboratory at the Medical Education and Research Institute, taught by chief resident Dr. Venable!
Journal Club this month was hosted by our staff Dr. Chris Nickele
@DrNickele
! Excellent discussions, great food and a great time between residents and attendings!
Just a reminder to
#Neurosurgery
applicants to join our
#Virtual
Open House tomorrow at 5 PM CST/6 PM CST. For those who dogn up, you will receive an event link shortly before the start! Looking forward to seeing you all there.
Join us on Tuesday, September 26th at 5PM CST/6 PM EST for a
#Virtual
Introduction and Open House to our residency program!
Hear from our program leadership and residents in what makes training in Memphis exceptional! Q&A to follow!
Sign-up here:
Our amazing neurosurgery residents, PGY1 through 7, gathered to welcome the incoming residents at the beginning of the academic year!!
#neurosurgery
#residency
#teammates
We are very excited to lead this online journal club discussion through the
@NEJMres360
with the authors of the Trial of Dexamethasone for Chronic Subdural Hematoma published in
@NEJM
! Make sure to follow the discussion in the following days!
Join the residents and faculty from
@MemphisNSGY
in a Resident360 Journal Club discussion about this
@NEJM
article. The authors will be on hand to answer questions about their research. Be a part of the conversation now!
#MedEd
#neurosurgery
With
#ERAS
deadlines fast approaching, our superb residents came together to create this short film for interested
#neurosurgery
applicants, highlighting what makes our residency program so special! Check it out!
Join us on September 29th at 7AM CST for a
#Virtual
Introduction to our residency program!
Hear from our Chairman, Program Director and residents in what makes training in Memphis exceptional! Q&A to follow!
Sign-up here:
#Neurosurgery
#Match2022
Another round of resident interviews completed! It has been a pleasure to virtually meet such excellent and talented medical students from all over the country!
#match2021
#neurosurgery
Very proud of how our residents represent and advocate for diverse patient populations! Our PGY-2
@emal_lesha
was interviewed by the Albanian network Dritare TV, discussing mental health and his involvement with NGOs serving the the Albanian community!
#Neurosurgery
#mentalhealth
Dr. Mallory Dacus, PGY4 resident, ready and excited for another round of neurosurgery resident interviews! We are thankful for meeting yet another group extremely talented applicants!
#neurosurgery
#match2021
Our program will join the
@NREFORG
inaugural
#CushingBowl
at
#AANS2022
. Starting tomorrow, you can join our team at and help
#NREF
by donating while having some fun answering trivia questions!
Microsurgical dissection and cadaveric skills labs are key in surgical training and highlights of our
#neurosurgery
program! In the past month, our residents had dedicated labs focused on ALIF and Orbitozygomatic craniotomy approaches!
The
#CushingBowl
fundraising competition is going strong! Our team is currently leading the efforts with over 1000$ in donations collected. Join us at and help
@NREFORG
and
@AANSNeuro
by donating for the future of neurosurgery!
Our amazing residents will be holding a virtual
#meetandgreet
with interested applicants this Saturday, September 4th at 2PM CST via
#InstagramLive
! Stay tuned for more info!!
Here is a link to our Instagram account!
#Neurosurgery
#Match2022
Dr. William Mangham
@wmmangham
, PGY 5 neurosurgery resident, performing a posterior fossa decompression for resection of a 4th ventricular web with Dr. Michael!
Latest publication from our department as our staff Dr. Paul Klimo
@KlimoJr
and resident Dr. Motiwala
@MMotiwalaMD
provide important clinical insight into pediatric abusive head trauma!
#pedsneuro
#AHT
We are excited to participate in this year's
@NREFORG
Cushing Bowl! As winners of the first edition, we are aiming to earn the trophy back! Follows us during these next few weeks, tag us through
#CushingBowlUT
, and please donate using our program's link.
Congratulations to our PGY-3 resident Dr. Motiwala for his oral presentation at
@CNS_Update
focused on Knowledge Silos in the Craniosynostosis Literature!
#CNS2021
#pedssection
For students and applicants who were not able to attend our Virtual Open House, you can now find the recording of our event uploaded in our YouTube channel!
Check out this superb article on high resolution CT in Mobile Stroke Units by our own
@AdamArthurMD
and the UTHSC Dep. Of Neurology
@uthscneurores
published
@JNIS_BMJ
!
Don't miss this episode of the TNJ podcast featuring our staff Dr. Arthur
@AdamArthurMD
and Cerebrovascular Fellow Dr. Dornbos
@DornbosIII_MD
as they discuss about becoming a vascular neurosurgeon!
Check out this recent publication highlighting the use of Woven EndoBridge
#WEB
device for ruptured aneurysms, a great collaboration including our own
@AdamArthurMD
!
We are proud to contribute to the neurosurgical literature with another great publication by our residents and department! Thank you
@UMDNeurosurgery
for the shoutout!
@wmmangham
@TheJNS
Another terrific visiting professorship lecture at our department by Dr. Knightly, Director of ABNS. Thank you for the excellent lecture and important teaching points to our residents and faculty!