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Academics : Research Opportunities | Awards | Resources
| Research Opportunities |
Each resident is encouraged to direct his or her interests and talents toward the development of an original research project, and each has the opportunity to spend at least 24 months pursuing laboratory investigation. The residency training program can be tailored to allow for additional laboratory time, with the research discipline and topic selected by the individual resident. On completion of the training program, residents will be capable of independent research in both laboratory and clinical environments.
Many of our residents have successfully competed for research fellowships
from the NIH, AANS, AHA, ACS and other funding agencies (see
Awards section below).
The Department offers extensive laboratory research resources in multiple areas, including neurophysiology, cerebrovascular and vascular smooth muscle physiology, transplantation, neuro-oncology, neurohistology (including electron microscopy), behavioral physiology, developmental biology and molecular neurobiology. Should a resident's research interests be in other areas, the comprehensive program in the neurosciences at this institution permits arrangements to be made for laboratory experience in other University departments. Close associations are maintained with the Departments of Pathology, Neurology, Pharmacology, Radiology and Radiation Therapy, Physiology and Biophysics, Bioengineering, and Biological Structure.
Studies are underway in the Department of Neurological Surgery in the following areas:
- Behavioral Physiology
- Central Nervous System Oncology
- Cerebral Ischemia and Neuroprotection Research
- Cerebrovascular and Vascular Smooth Muscle Physiology
- Cerebrovascular Laboratory
- Cortical localization
- Epilepsy
- Neuroanatomic Studies
- Neurophysiology
- Pain
- Pediatric Neurosurgery
- Peripheral Nerves and Spinal Cord
- Skull Base Clinical Research
- Stereotaxic Localization of Human Brain
- Trauma of the Central Nervous System
Awards
- AANS Award
- AANS Young Investigators Award
- American Brain Tumor Foundation
- American Cancer Society Fellowship
- American Heart Association Fellowship
- American Philosophical Society Daland Fellowship for Research in Clinical Medicine
- CIDA/KO-8 Award
- Clinical Neurosciences Training Grant
- Congress of Neurological Surgeons Dandy Fellowship
- Congress of Neurological Surgeons Functional Neurosurgery Fellowship
- Congress of Neurological Surgeons Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Resident
- Elsberg Prize
- Grass Prize
- Howard Hughes Investigator Award
- Klingenstein Award
- Multiple Sclerosis Society Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship
- NIH-Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship
- NSF Washington Biomedical Engineering Award
- New Medico Foundation
- Optimedx, Inc.
- Paralyzed Veterans of America/Spinal Cord Research Foundation
- Pfizer Prize
- Robert S. Morrison Fellowship
- Sanford Larson Award - American Associatoin of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons
- Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Award
- Van Wagenen Traveling Fellowship
Resources
Award, Publication, and Grant SubmissionThe Department of Neurological Surgery provides residents with guidance and assistance in submitting their research papers for publication and their grant proposals for funding to federal and other agencies. In addition, the department facilitates the identification of awards and funding opportunities for residents. Because many faculty members sit on editorial boards for peer-reviewed journals, serve as editors for textbooks, and are actively involved with various neurosurgery and neuroscience societies, residents have many unique opportunities to write book chapters, present at and attend national and international meetings and participate in the development of new technologies.
"Personal Preferences in Neurosurgery"
Emeritus Clinical Professor, David Pitkethly, M.D. has created a teaching tool for residents, called “Personal Preferences in Neurosurgery” (pdf file 2 mb). This simple illustrated guide is an instructional description of how to do basic neurosurgical procedures that trainees in quaternary medical centers sometimes don’t see much, but will in other settings.
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