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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
Dr. 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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