The Barrow Neurological Institute Neurosurgery Residency Program is rigorous and fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Residents develop their clinical skills by caring for patients in need of the entire spectrum of neurological surgery: trauma, cerebrovascular, spine, neoplastic, functional, and pediatric. The breadth of clinical experience available to residents is reflected by the volume of patients at the Barrow. After completion of the residency program, there are a variety of careers available. Please see our graduate list below for an example of careers after residency:
Brendan Killory, MD
6/30/11
Director, Epilepsy and Functional Neurosurgery, Hartford Hospital
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Connecticut Medical School
Hartford, CT
Francisco Ponce, MD
6/30/11
Director, Center for Neuromodulation
Barrow Neurological Institute
Phoenix, AZ
Scott Wait, MD
6/30/11
Pediatrics Fellowship
LeBonheur Children's Hospital/St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, TN
Kumar Kakarla, MD
6/30/10
Staff Neurosurgeon
Barrow Neurological Institute
Phoenix, AZ
Andrew Little, MD
6/30/10
Staff Neurosurgeon
Barrow Neurological Institute
Phoenix, AZ
Steve Chang, MD
6/30/09
Staff Neurosurgeon
Barrow Neurological Institute
Phoenix, AZ
Elisa Kucia, MD
6/30/09
Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellowship
Denver Childrens Hospital
Denver, CO
Peter Maughan, MD
6/30/09
Staff Neurosurgeon
Neurosurgical Associates
Salt Lake City, UT
Fernando Gonzalez, MD
6/30/08
Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology Fellow
Barrow Neurological Institute
Pankaj Gore, MD
6/30/08
Private Practice
Microneurosurgical Consultants Providence Brain Institute
Portland, Oregon
Gregory Lekovic, MD
6/30/08
House Clinic
Staff Neurosurgeon
Los Angeles, CA
Ruth Bristol, MD
6/30/07
Staff Neurosurgeon
Barrow Neurological Insitute
Phoenix, AZ
Iman Feiz-Erfan, MD
6/30/07
Staff Neurosurgeon, Maricopa Integrated Health System
Phoenix, AZ
Eric Horn, MD, PhD
6/30/07
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of Spinal Neurosurgery
Indiana University
Indianapolis, IN
Louis Kim, MD
6/30/06
Assistant Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine
Attending neurosurgeon at Harborview Medical Center
Jeffrey Klopfenstein, MD
6/30/06
Faculty, Cerebrovascular/Skull Base, University Illinois-Peoria
Vivek Deshmukh, MD
6/30/06
Faculty at George Washington University Washington, DC
Jonathan Hott, MD
6/30/05
Neurosurgeon at John C. Lincoln Hospital Phoenix, AZ
Patrick Han, MD
08/30/04
Faculty at St. John's Hospital
Tulsa, OK
Sam Javedan, MD
06/30/04
Private Practice in Fort Meyers, Florida
Mark Gerber, MD
06/30/03
Private Practice in Honolulu, Hawaii
Wendy Spangler, MD
06/30/03
Private Practice in Omaha, Nebraska
Geoffrey Zubay, MD
06/30/03
Private Practice in San Diego, California
Jeffrey Henn, MD
06/30/02
Faculty at University of Florida at Gainesville
Michael Lemole, MD
06/30/02
Faculty at University of Illinois-Chicago College of Medicine
Nicholas Theodore, MD
06/30/01
Associate Program Director, Neurosurgery Residency
Director, Neurotrauma
Barrow Neurological Institute
Jeffrey Thramann, MD
06/30/01
Private Practice in Boulder, Colorado
Randall Porter, MD
06/30/00
Chief, Interdisciplinary Skull Base Section
Co-Director, Gamma Knife
Barrow Neurological Institute
Paul Detwiler, MD
06/30/00
Private Practice in Tyler, Texas
