Congratulations Drs. Forseth and Ryba on your success to date and welcome to our UC San Diego Neurological Surgery Family! Kiefer Forseth, MD PhD (McGovern Med School) Bryan Ryba, MD (UC San Diego School of Medicine) #Match2021 #MatchDay2021 #medtwitter #neurosurgery

Happy #ANAwarenessWeek! Today we shine the #SpotlightOnAN and our #AcousticNeuroma team, led by Rick Friedman, MD, PhD and Marc S. Schwartz, MD. Both internationally recognized experts, they perform every surgery together to ensure the best possible patient outcomes: bit.ly/3uLsQr5

500 surgeries. 500 families. 500 lives changed. Thank you to our #AcousticNeuroma team, who officially performed 500 operations UC San Diego Health this month, for always keeping people at the center of your work. Marc S. Schwartz, MD Rick Friedman, MD, PhD ANAssociation #BTAM

What’s a typical day like as a #neurosurgery resident? Now-faculty member Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg (Jeffrey Steinberg, MD) shared his experience while training in our program: bit.ly/384Q1TJ #NeurosurgeryAwarenessMonth #ResidentLife #Match2022 #MedStudentTwitter

Our residency program is designed to train residents in all aspects of modern #neurosurgery while allowing flexibility for specialized research or clinical interests. Learn more: bit.ly/3zejwy6 #MedTwitter #MedStudentTwitter #Match2022

Congrats to all authors on this advance, including our chair Dr. Alexander Khalessi (Alexander Khalessi, MD, MBA) and faculty member Dr. David Santiago-Dieppa (David Rafael Santiago-Dieppa, MD, FAANS). Read the study: bit.ly/3DJmm0M #Neurosurgery #MedTwitter #aneurysm #endovasular Science Robotics

We are honored to share that Don and Karen Cohn have given $2.5 million to establish the Don and Karen Cohn Chancellor’s #EndowedChair in #Neurosurgery, with Dr. Alexander Khalessi (Alexander Khalessi, MD, MBA) named inaugural holder. Full story: bit.ly/2WRHh0x #Philanthropy

Great news and well deserved. UC San Diego Neurological Surgery has flourished under Dr. Khalessi’s leadership and it is not even the end of the beginning. #Neurosurgery

Our brainstem cavernous malformation patients are literally entrusting their lives to our hands — it is both humbling and elevating to get to bring all of the knowledge and technique we learn to this most delicate surgery. UAZ Medicine - Phoenix María José Cavagnaro Usman Khan, MD, PhD

Many thanks to Dr. Charlie Teo for swinging by #UCSDNeuroSurg’s NeuroHub for a special educational lecture about creating personalized, patient-specific maps of the brain connectome that could help improve patient outcomes. #Neurosurgery #NSGY

.Rick Friedman, MD, PhD, neurotologist, shares why the #AcousticNeuroma program at #UCSDHealth leads the nation in the number of patients and positive treatment outcomes for this rare benign tumor. More about our acoustic neuroma care: go.ucsd.edu/39oxFAK youtube.com/watch?v=uahfUI…

Happy #ANAwarenessWeek2022! Today we highlight Drs. Marc Schwartz and Rick Friedman, internationally renowned experts on #AcousticNeuroma and #SkullBase tumors who are working to #UnderstandAN and improve care. Learn more: go.ucsd.edu/3Njliou / go.ucsd.edu/3wyC1xd

Watch one of their recent surgeries, a combined right translabyrinthine and anterior petrosal approach for resection of a petrous apex meningioma in collision with a vestibular schwannoma in a young male with NF2: bit.ly/3rMsYak #ANAwarenessWeek2022 #ANAwarenessWeek

As we close out #BrainTumorAwarenessMonth, learn how new innovations have improved the treatment of #BrainMetastases and other neurological conditions by watching this Neurosurgical Atlas (Aaron Cohen-Gadol, MD) presentation by our chair, Alexander Khalessi, MD, MBA: bit.ly/3fZkHJB

A proud day as our chief residents give their final presentations reflecting on personal and professional accomplishments over the past 7 years. Themes: Mentorship, new technologies transforming the specialty and the privilege of restoring peoples' lives through #neurosurgery.

Continuing our #NationalMentoringMonth celebration, we’re shining the spotlight on mentoring pair Dr. Usman Khan (Usman Khan, MD, PhD, PGY-7) and Dr. Marc Schwartz (Marc S. Schwartz, MD)! They are both pictured with Dr. Schwartz’s family at our annual holiday party. #Neurosurgery #Mentor