{"id":153754,"date":"2019-09-05T07:14:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T11:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=153754"},"modified":"2019-09-06T09:24:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T13:24:42","slug":"neurosurgery-residency-places-uconn-health-exclusive-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/09\/neurosurgery-residency-places-uconn-health-exclusive-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Neurosurgery Residency Places UConn Health in Exclusive Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

UConn Health announced the launch of a seven-year residency in neurological surgery<\/a>, one of only a handful in the nation.<\/p>\n

In establishing the training program with Hartford Hospital and Connecticut Children\u2019s Medical Center, UConn joins an exclusive group \u2013 less than 2% of U.S. hospitals have such a program.<\/p>\n

The program also meets a vision of Dr. Ketan Bulsara<\/a>, chief of the UConn Health Division of Neurosurgery, who will oversee the process as the residency program director.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believed we could acquire such an elite residency program because the environment was right at UConn Health,\u201d Bulsara says. \u201cIt takes excellence, not only in neurosurgery \u2013 cranial and spine \u2013 but it takes excellence at every single level of a medical institution.<\/p>\n

\u201cUConn Health, through this unique collaboration that we\u2019ve set up with Hartford Healthcare and Connecticut Children\u2019s Medical Center, is positioned to train the next generation of leaders in neurological surgery, who I\u2019m convinced will one day find solutions for problems that perplex us today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bulsara credits Dr. Richard Simon<\/a>, professor of surgery and neurosurgery and medical chief of staff, and Dr. Hilary Onyiuke<\/a>, neurosurgery director of UConn Health\u2019s Comprehensive Spine Center, with building a \u201cfoundation of academic excellence.\u201d He also acknowledges the UConn School of Medicine\u2019s Graduate Medical Education office<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new residency program would not have been possible without the tireless work of Graduate Medical Education Director Martha Wilkie,\u201d Bulsara says. \u201cHer passion for education, coupled with that of Dr. Jaqueline \u201cKiki\u201d Nissen<\/a>, and Dr. Steven Angus<\/a>, is truly something that should be celebrated.\u201d<\/p>\n

UConn has five dozen residency and fellowship training programs.<\/p>\n

\u201cDr. Bulsara and the new neurosurgery residency program are on a clear path to help UConn establish its position as a national leader in training the next generation of physicians,\u201d Wilkie says. \u201cWe are all very proud of him and the entire team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bulsara also credits the program’s establishment to the support of Dr. Bruce Liang<\/a>, medical dean, Dr. Andrew Agwunobi<\/a>, UConn Health CEO and executive vice president for health affairs, and Dr. David McFadden<\/a>, surgery chair, for UConn\u2019s first new medical residency program since 2006.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a major achievement for UConn Health, thanks to the leadership of Dr. Bulsara and our GME program, and it validates our excellence in clinical care, education, and research,\u201d Agwunobi says.<\/p>\n

Adds Liang, \u201cWhat a proud moment for the UConn School of Medicine, for UConn Health, and for the future of medicine. This takes us to an even greater level of medical education and is a tribute to our tremendous physician-scientist mentors.\u201d<\/p>\n

The residents will be trained on the full range of neurosurgical procedures. \u201cIf it\u2019s a surgery on the brain or spinal cord, they\u2019ll learn it, and learn it in an exemplary fashion such that they are positioned to shape the future of neurosurgery,\u201d Bulsara says.<\/p>\n

Dr. Inam Kureshi will serve as site director at Hartford Hospital, and Dr. Jonathan Martin will serve as site director at Connecticut Children\u2019s Medical Center.\u00a0 Bulsara, who attended the nation’s top neurosurgery training programs, plans to pass along what he\u2019s learned from the pioneers in the field<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want our residents to leave with the fact that there may be things today that we treat well, but I want them to treat it better tomorrow, and the day after, I want them to treat it even better,” says Bulsara. “That\u2019s the philosophy my mentors have imparted on me, and that\u2019s what I want to impart on the people we train.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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