Faculty
Course Faculty, Advisors and Mentors:
Ossama Al-Mefty, MD
Professor of Skull Base Surgery
Department of Neurosurgery
Brigham &Women's Hospital
Boston, MA
Juan Alzate, MD
Advocate Health Care
The American Center for
Spine & Neurosurgery
Issam Awad, MD
Professor of Surgery, Neurology &
The Cancer Center
Director of Neurovascular Surgery Program
University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago, IL
Greg J. Bailey, MD, PhD
Neurosurgeon
St. Louis, Missouri
Fred D. Brown, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Neurosurgery
University of Chicago Medical Center
Robert K. Erickson, MD
Neurosurgeon
Advocate Condell Center, Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital,
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
Libertyville, IL
Hamad I. Farhat, MD
Neurosurgeon
Northshore University Health System
Evanston, IL
David M. Frim, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
Chief, Section of Neurosurgery
University of Chicago Medical Center
Patrik Gabikian, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
University of Chicago Medical Center
Jaime Gasco, MD
Assistant Professor
Director of Resident Education
Division of Neurosurgery
University of Texas Medical Branch
Roberta Glick, MD
Neurosurgeon
Mt Sinai Hospital
Chicago, IL
Javad Hekmat-panah, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery,
Neurology and Cancer Research
University of Chicago Medical Center
Tamir Hersonskey, MD
Neurological Surgery
Provena Saint Joseph Medical Center
Dean G. Karahalios, MD
Neurosurgeon
Northshore University Health System
Evanston, IL
Amin Kassam, MD
Chief of Neurosurgery Department
The Ottawa Hospital
Canada
Leila Khorasani, MD
Instructor in Surgery
Neurosurgery
University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago, IL
Leonard I. Kranzler, MD. FACS
(Course Director) Clinical Professor of Surgery (Neurosurgery)
University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago, IL
Sandi Lam, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago, IL
Shaun T. O'Leary, MD, PhD, FAANS
Attending Neurosurgeon
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Assistant Professor
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, IL
Nassir Mansour, MD
Neurosurgical Resident
University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago, IL
Roham Moftakhar, MD
Assistant Professor
Neurological Surgery
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, IL
Thomas P. Naidich, MD
Professor of Radiology and
Neurosurgery
Director of Neuroradiology
Mt. Sinai Medical School
New York, NY
Sergey Neckrysh, MD
Neurosurgeon
University of Illinois Hospital &
Health Sciences System
Chicago, IL
Ben Z. Roitberg, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Department of Surgery
University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago, IL
Robert Spinner, MD
Professor of Neurological Surgery,
Orthopedics and Anatomy
Mayo Clinic
College of Medicine
Rochester, MN
Noam Stadlan, MD
Neurosurgeon
Northshore University HealthSystem
Evanston, IL
Michael Sturgill, MD
Neurosurgeon
Mt. Sinai Hospital
Chicago, IL
Axel Vargas MD
Anesthesiologist, Pain Medicine &
General Surgery
River North Pain Management
Chicago, IL
Peter Warnke, MD, FRCS
Associate Professor of Surgery
University of Chicago Medical Center
Ricky Wong, MD
(Co-Coordinator) Neurosurgical Resident
University of Chicago Medical Center
Bakhtiar Yamini, MD
Associate Professor
Pediatric Neurosurgery
University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago, IL
Paul Young, MD
Neurosurgeon
St. Louis, MO
Jin-cheng Zhao, MD
Minimally Invasive Surgery Training &
Innovation (MISTI) Laboratory,
Department of Surgery
Director, Surgical Simulation Laboratory,
Division of Neurosurgery
NorthShore University HealthSystem
Clinical Associate Professor
University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine
Invited faculty revised as of July 17, 2012.