Here are five highlights:
1. The VA medical center hopes filling this neurosurgery position will decrease wait times.
2. The neurosurgery chief position has been unoccupied for two years.
3. As chief of the VA medical center’s neurosurgery section, Dr. Shakir is seeing approximately 35 patients to 40 patients weekly. He estimates he will be able to push that number to 50 patients, eventually.
4. Veterans may now receive brain surgery, spine surgery and peripheral nerve surgery at the VA medical center.
5. Dr. Shakir received his medical degree from University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in Oklahoma City.
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