1. The Neurological Surgery Residency Training Program at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte is a subspecialty-based program designed to train skilled and compassionate neurological surgeons. The very fist resident of the program will begin training this summer.
2. Surgeons from Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Associates will serve as the core faculty. They represent a full range of subspecialty areas, including spine surgery, vascular neurosurgery, endovascular surgery, skull base neurosurgery, pediatric neurosurgery, peripheral nerve surgery, radiosurgery, epilepsy surgery and neurotrauma.
According to an article examining the current state of spine surgery residency and fellowship training in the United States, which was published in Spinal Deformity, 40 percent of neurological surgery programs have residents spending more than 12 months dedicated to the spine service. Also, 100 percent of the neurological surgery residency program directors said their residents were highly confident in performing spinal instrumentation and decompression, according to the article.
3. The program will be located at Carolinas Medical Center, where approximately 3,500 operative neurosurgical procedures are performed each year. The 874-bed Carolinas Medical Center is one of five teaching hospitals in North Carolina, and it currently conducts residency programs in 28 medical and dental specialties.
4. Established in 1940, Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Associates includes 44 board-certified or board-eligible physicians in neurosurgery, physical medicine and rehabilitation, orthopedic spine surgery and pain management. The practice has office locations in Ballantyne, Burlington, Charlotte, Concord, Greensboro, High Point, Huntersville and Rock Hill.
5. Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Associates neurosurgeon Anthony Asher, MD, will serve as the residency program director. He also serves as co-medical director of the Neuroscience Institute at Carolinas HealthCare System. “I believe we’re positioned to develop one of the premier residency programs for neurological surgery in the country,” he said.
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