Why select the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine's Department of Neurological Surgery for advancing your medical education, experience and research efforts?
- The Case Western Reserve University Department of Neurological Surgery has a rich academic history with ties to George Crile, MD, Elliot Cutler, MD, Frank Nulsen MD and Claude S. Beck, MD.
- The University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center is the only Neuroscience Center of Excellence in the State of Ohio with a Stage 4 - Institute designation.
- Case Western Reserve University is an affiliate of University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, consistently ranked as one of the nation's leading academic medical centers.
- Our neurosurgery program combines the power of a large bustling academic medical center with the intimacy of in-depth, one-on-one, apprenticeship training supervised by national leaders in virtually every neurosurgical subspecialty.
- Many of our graduates have gone on to become department chairs and leaders in their field.
- Over one third of CWRU neurosurgery graduates pursue an academic career.
- More women have graduated from the Case Western Reserve Neurosurgery Program than from any other neurosurgery program in the country.
- One of three programs in the country offering the AutoLITT (laser interstitial thermotherapy) for treating brain tumors.
- One of the nation's few neurosurgery programs with access to a virtual reality surgical simulator.
- The Department of Neurological Surgery's affiliation with UH Cleveland Medical Center provides a depth of resources and access to the latest technologies and leaders in a variety of medical disciplines.