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Robert F. Spetzler, MD

Director, Barrow Neurological Institute
J. N. Harber Chair of Neurological Surgery
Chair, Division of Neurological Surgery
Director, Neurological Research

Robert F. SpetzlerDr. Robert Spetzler is a world-renowned neurosurgeon who specializes in cerebrovascular disease and skull base tumors. He has been involved in pioneering the technique of hypothermia and cardiac arrest for the treatment of difficult brain lesions. He has been honored many times by professional societies, including the American College of Surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. In 1994 Dr. Spetzler was chosen to be the Honored Guest of Congress of Neurological Surgeons. At age 49 he was the youngest recipient of this prestigious honor.

Dr. Spetzler was born in Stierhoefstetten, Germany, and moved to the United States at the age of 11. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and his M.D. from Northwestern Medical School, Chicago, Illinois. His postgraduate training was completed at Wesley Memorial Hospital–Northwestern in Chicago, Illinois. He completed a residency in neurosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco. He received board certification in September 1979 from the American Board of Neurological Surgery.

In 1983 Dr. Spetzler left his position as Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, to assume the Chair in the Division of Neurological Surgery at Barrow. He has been the Director of Barrow since 1986. He is also a Professor of Surgery, Section of Neurosurgery, at University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson, Arizona.

Dr. Spetzler has published more than 300 articles and 180 book chapters in the neuroscience literature. He has co-edited a number of neurosurgical textbooks, including the Color Atlas of Microneurosurgery. He is on the review board of several neuroscience journals and is Editor-in-Chief of the Barrow Quarterly and Skull Base: An Interdisciplinary Approach.

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Richard G. Ellenbogen, MD

Professor and Chairman,
Theodore S. Roberts Endowed Chair in Pediatric Neurosurgery,
Chief of Neurosurgery at H.M.C.,
Residency Program Director

Richard G. EllenbogenDr. Ellenbogen is Professor and Chairman of Neurological Surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine, the Theodore S. Roberts Endowed Chair in Pediatric Neurosurgery, the Chief of Neurological Surgery at Harborview Medical Center, Professor of Radiology and Neurological Surgery Residency Program Director.

He received his medical degree from Brown University in 1983. After completing a residency in 1989 at Children’s Hospital, Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston/ Harvard Medical School, Dr. Ellenbogen then became Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery and Director of the Surgical Epilepsy Program at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. In addition, he was the Neurosurgical Director of the DOD/VA Head Injury Project. He became the Chief of Neurosurgery and Residency Program Director at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and Chairman of the National Capital Area Neurosurgery Residency Consortium prior to being recruited to The University of Washington. He joined the UW Department of Neurological Surgery in 1997/1998.

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