Residency Program
Target Audience
Neurosurgery & Orthopedic Spine Attendings, Fellows, Senior Residents interested in spine.
Capacity
8 stations with 4 attendees at each station. 1-2 Faculty/Station
Learning Objectives
• Understand the surgical anatomy and approaches to the operative spine from occiput to the pelvis
• Describe indications for surgical stabilization and instrumentation in patients with trauma, deformity, tumor and degenerative diseases of the spine
• Compare & contrast minimally invasive and traditional open approaches to spine surgery
• Outline the diversity of surgical treatment of spinal disorders & promote evidence-based strategies toward understanding of how surgical intervention effects pain & functional outcomes in spine patients
Brown-Harvard-Yale Neurosurgery Orthopedics Cadaveric Spine Course Comprehensive Technical Review Faculty 2019:
Khalid M. Abbed, MD Associate Professor of Neurosurgery Chief, Neurosurgery Spine | Yale School of Medicine Director, Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Director, Spine Tumor Surgery Co-Director, Yale-New Haven Hospital Spine Center Yale Spine Center | New Haven, CT
John H. Chi, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery | Harvard Medical School Director, Neurosurgical Spine Cancer Brigham & Women’s Hospital | Boston, MA
Craig P. Eberson, MD Associate Professor of Orthopaedics Director, Orthopedic Residency Program and Pediatric Orthopedic Fellowship Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Chief, Division of Pediatric Orthopedics Hasbro Children’s Hospital | Providence, RI
Jared Fridley, MD Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Director, Spinal Surgical Outcomes Laboratory Rhode Island Hospital | Providence, RI
Ziya L. Gokaslan, MD Gus Stoll, MD Professor & Chair of Neurosurgery Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Neurosurgeon-in-Chief Rhode Island Hospital & The Miriam Hospital Clinical Director, Norman Prince Neurosciences Institute President, Brown Neurosurgery Foundation | Providence, RI
Michael W. Groff, MD Director, Neurosurgical Spine Service Brigham & Women’s Comprehensive Spine Center Brigham & Women’s Hospital | Boston, MA Chair, National Neurosurgical Spine Society
Phillip R. Lucas, MD Clinical Associate Professor of Orthopaedics Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Rhode Island Hospital | Providence, RI
John H. Shin, MD Director, Metastatic Spine Oncology and Spinal Deformity Surgery Spinal Reconstruction Surgery Brigham & Women’s Comprehensive Spine Center Massachusetts General Hospital | Boston, MA
Albert E. Telfeian, MD, PhD Professor of Neurosurgery, Clinician Education Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Director, Center for Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Spinal Surgery Rhode Island Hospital | Providence, RI