Alpert Medical School appointed Ziya Gokaslan, MD, as chairman of the neurosurgery department, according to a Brown Daily Herald report.
Dr. Gokaslan was also named chief of neurosurgery at Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital as well as clinical director of the Norman Prince Neurosciences Institute. He will assume these positions on July 1.
Dr. Gokaslan is currently the director of the Neurosurgical Spine Center and vice chairman of neurosurgery at the John Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore. He'll leave these posts for his new positions.