{"id":228023,"date":"2025-04-08T10:21:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=228023"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:21:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:21:18","slug":"uconn-health-board-of-directors-honor-the-success-of-world-renowned-neurosurgeon-dr-ketan-bulsara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2025\/04\/uconn-health-board-of-directors-honor-the-success-of-world-renowned-neurosurgeon-dr-ketan-bulsara\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Health Board of Directors Honor the Success of World-Renowned Neurosurgeon Dr. Ketan Bulsara"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ketan Bulsara, MD, MBA, the inaugural chair of the newly established Department of Neurosurgery at the UConn School of Medicine, has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious 2025 UConn Health Board of Directors Faculty Recognition Award. He will be formally honored during UConn Health\u2019s 54th Commencement ceremony on May 12.<\/p>\n

A world-renowned figure in neurosurgery, Bulsara possesses elite expertise across an extraordinary spectrum of neurological surgical interventions. Having trained under pioneers of neurosurgery, he has contributed to both national and international guidelines and clinical standards. He is one of the initial neurosurgeons worldwide to have completed dual fellowship training in both skull base\/cerebrovascular microsurgery and endovascular neurosurgery, a testament to his continued desire to advance his field.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is my pleasure to celebrate and congratulate Dr. Ketan Bulsara on being prestigiously selected as the 2025 Board of Directors Faculty Recognition Award recipient,\u201d said Dr. Bruce T. Liang, dean of the UConn School of Medicine. \u201cHis strong leadership, innovative clinical care, impactful research, excellence in teaching, and devoted service to the people of Connecticut have taken neurosurgery in our state and at UConn to new heights.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dr. Ketan Bulsara in a surgical procedure in UConn Health’s high-tech hybrid operating room. (Kristin Wallace\/UConn Health Photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bulsara joined UConn Health in 2017 from Yale as chief of the then Division of Neurosurgery. Since then, he has worked tirelessly to advance neurosurgery\u2019s clinical, research, and educational initiatives.<\/p>\n

He conceptualized the newly created Brain and Spine Institute at UConn Health and partnered with the chairs of Neurology, Radiology, and Orthopedic Surgery. Since his arrival to UConn Health in 2017, Neurosurgery has seen unprecedented clinical growth.\u00a0 In addition to that, he led the establishment of a neurosurgery residency program which is among only 2% of these elite training programs nationwide. During his UConn tenure, the medical school has successfully matched more medical students into neurosurgery residencies than in any of the previous decades combined. He also established a successful research collaboration with Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am humbled and grateful to receive this award.\u00a0 UConn Health is a very special place where the faculty, staff, and leadership are committed to providing care second to none while also training the next generation of physicians and transforming healthcare for the future.\u00a0 I am grateful to be a part of this exceptional organization,\u201d says Bulsara. \u201cI sincerely thank the UConn Health Board of Directors for this special honor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bulsara has published three books and more than 220 peer-reviewed articles in some of the world\u2019s highest cited journals. His many scientific contributions include identifying the first proteins that lead to successful regeneration in the spinal cord and work on brain and spinal cord arteriovenous malformations establishing that these are not always congenital lesions.\u00a0 He was inducted into Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society; elected the 43rd<\/sup> chair of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons Joint Section of Cerebrovascular Surgery; and elected to the American Academy of Neurological Surgeons (distinction given to top 1% of academic neurosurgeons), and the Society of Neurological Surgeons (top 1% of neurosurgeon educators). He is only one of 100 advisors in the U.S. to the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Ketan Bulsara lecturing in the Academic Rotunda at UConn Health (Tina Encarnacion\/UConn Health photo).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Born in India, Bulsara grew up in Central Africa (Zambia) and immigrated to the United States in 1983. He attended Duke Medical School, where at graduation, he was unanimously awarded the \u201cIdeal Physician Award\u201d by his classmates.\u00a0 He completed his Neurosurgery Residency at Duke University Medical Center during which time he also did an enfolded fellowship in complex upper cervical spine disorder management at the University of Iowa.\u00a0 Following graduation from residency, Bulsara did further fellowship training at the University of Arkansas whose faculty included the individual designated by organized neurosurgery as the father of microneurosurgery and Neurosurgery\u2019s Man of the Century. Bulsara subsequently returned to Duke to train in endovascular neurosurgery, making him at the time among just a handful of neurosurgeons in the world with this dual training.\u00a0 In 2017, he completed his MBA at the Yale School of Management prior to joining UConn Health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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