Minimum Qualifications
Qualified applicants will have graduated from an ACGME-accredited neurosurgery residency program. In addition, candidates must have completed a prepatory year of diagnostic neuroangiography training under an ACGME accredited program, performing and interpreting a minimum of 100 supervised neuroagniograms. Senior level residents training in an ACGME-accredited neurosurgical residency program may apply for a year of training in diagnostic neuroangiography.
Program Description
This one-year fellowship is comprised of research and clinical training in the diagnosis and treament of neuropatients using endovascular surgical neuroradiology. Fellows are expected to participate in both of these areas. The fellowship is ACGME accredited and accepts 2 fellows a year.
Goals
To specialize and develop advanced technical skills using minimally invasive catheter-based technology and imaging to diagnose and treat diseases of the central nervous system, head, neck and spine.
Clinical Duties
Fellows become an integral part of the Division of Neurosurgery and are to actively participate in the training and education of residents and medical students. While strictly adhering to the ACGME's Duty Hour Policy, fellows will take home call and are expected to be on call for complicated cases and/or post-operative complications. Fellows will work with the clinical neurosurgery service and in the outpatient clinic managing and treating all disorders of the head, neck and spine where endovascular techniques may be employed.
Contact
Reina Cordova
Head Medical Secretary
(602) 406-3964
Reina.Cordova@bnaneuro.net
Learn More
Read more about Endovascular Neurosurgery at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center.
