Endovascular & Operative Neurovascular Surgery Fellowship
Training in Neurovascular Procedures
The BIDMC Brain Aneurysm Institute offers a two-year clinical fellowship for training in both endovascular and open operative neurovascular procedures. One fellow per year is selected for the two-year fellowship. The Fellowship Director is Christopher S. Ogilvy, MD, who is also Director of the Brain Aneurysm Institute.
The applicant should have satisfactory ACGME accredited (or Canadian equivalent) residency or training in neurological surgery or be at a level of senior resident. Senior-level residents may be considered if they are in an accredited neurosurgery program that offers a broad exposure to the full spectrum of neurosurgery as well as intensive care unit experience.
It is beneficial if the applicant has some level of endovascular experience. To date, many applicants have completed 100 catheter-based diagnostic cerebral angiograms.
If an applicant has no prior endovascular experience, the initial four-month interval of the fellowship is spent in the angiography suite. Following this interval, there is an 18-month interval during which the fellow performs both endovascular and open operative neurovascular procedures on a weekly basis.
Typically, two days a week are spent in the endovascular suite and two days a week are spent in the neurosurgical operating room. One day a week is set aside for clinic, which is attended by the fellows as well as attending staff.
There is a weekly neurovascular conference where new patients are reviewed and follow-up studies on existing patients are discussed with recommendations of treatment/follow-up plans. The neurovascular fellow is involved with presentation of patients and provides input on decision-making and management.
Throughout the training, the neurovascular fellow is given an increasing amount of supervised procedural responsibilities in both the endovascular suite and the operating room. It is expected that by the end of the training, the fellow will be ready to run a neurovascular practice with both endovascular and open operative neurovascular skills.
In addition to our fellowship opportunities, the department also offers a variety professional development programs for further career training.
To Apply
Interested individuals should submit a letter of intent along with a current Curriculum Vitae (CV) to the Fellowship Director:
Christopher S. Ogilvy, MD
BIDMC Brain Aneurysm Institute
Lowry 3B, 110 Francis Street
Boston, MA 02215
cogilvy@bidmc.harvard.edu
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Abdulrahman Y. Alturki, MBBS, MSc, FRCSC
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ulas Cikla, MD
Endovascular and Operative Neurovascular Surgery Fellow
BIDMC Brain Aneurysm Institute
Boston, MA 02215
Parviz Dolati-Ardejani, MD
Director of Cerebrovascular Surgery
Department of Neurological Surgery
Golsar Hospital
Rasht, Iran
Matthew R. Fusco, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, Department of Radiology and Radiologic Sciences
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN
Christoph J. Griessenauer, MD
Department of Neurosurgery
Geisinger Health System
Danville, PA
Dominic A. Harris, MD
Department of Neurosurgery
University of New Mexico Hospital
Albuquerque, NM
Lucy He, MD
Resident
Department of Neurological Surgery
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN
Kimberly Kicielinski, MD, MSPH
Department of Neurologic Surgery
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
Justin Moore, MD, PhD
Department of Neurosurgery
Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA
Timothy M. Robinson, MD
Department of Neurosurgery
Baylor Scott and White Medical Center
Texas A&M College of Medicine
Temple, TX
Philip Schmalz, MD
Resident
Department of Neurological Surgery
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
Max Shutran, MD
Nimer A. Abushehab, MD
Resident
Department of Neurosurgery
Louisiana State University
Shreveport, LA
Luis Ascanio, MD
Universidad de Carabobo, Campus Aragua
Carabobo, Venezuela
Abdulrahman Y. Alturki, MBBS, MSc, FRCSC
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Kohei Chida, MD
Department of Neurosurgery
Iwate Medical University
Morioka, Japan
Anu Chinnadurai
Undergraduate Student, University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Michelle Chua, MD
Resident
Barrow Neurological Institute
Phoenix, AZ
Berkan Darbaz
Medical student, Bezmialem Vakif University
Istanbul, Turkey
Alejandro Enriquez, MD
Universidad ICESI
Fundacion Valle del Lili Hospital
Cali, Colombia
Santiago Gomez-Paz, MD
Universidad Latina de Panama
Panama City, Panama
Christoph J. Griessenauer, MD
Department of Neurosurgery
Geisinger Health System
Danville, PA
Raghav Gupta
Medical Student, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University
Newark, NJ
Gao Junwei, MD
Co-Director of Neurovascular Surgery
Department of Neurological Surgery
Lanzhou University Second Hospital
Lanzhou, China
Kimberly Kicielinski, MD, MSPH
Department of Neurologic Surgery
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
Maddie Leadon
Medical Student, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
George Maragkos MD
School of Medicine, Aristotle University
Thessaloniki, Greece
Julie Mayeku, MD
Postgraduate pre-medical residency fellow
Department of Neurosurgery
Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA
Justin Moore, MD, PhD
Department of Neurosurgery
Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA
Rouzbeh Motiei-Langroudi, MD
Clinical Fellowship in Spine Surgery
Department of Neurosurgery
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA
Apar S. Patel, MBBS, MPH
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
Mohammad Salem, MD
Faculty of Medicine
Alexandria University
Alexandria, Egypt
Anna Schneider
Medical student, Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität
Lech, Austria
Siyu Shi, BSc, MD PhD
Medical Student, Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA
Yaw Tachie
Medical student, Tufts University
Boston, MA
Ranjith Thomas
Undergraduate student, Tufts University
Boston, MA, United States
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