When I was a medical student, if you told me that one day I would get to interview a Professor of Digital Neurosurgery, I don’t know if I would have believed you. Yet, here we are! Dr. Thomas Picht is the first person in the world to hold that distinguished title, and my conversation with …
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Every doctor wants the best possible outcome for the patients in their care. None of us walk into an exam or operating room hoping for a mediocre result. Yet, when it comes to the subject of quality improvement, physicians are divided at best. Not in terms of desiring a greater level of care for our …
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If knowing is half the battle, then Dr. Scott Whittemore has 40 years of knowledge to take on spinal cord injury. He first stepped into the field in 1986 by becoming one of the founding scientists of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami. There he rose to the rank of …
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Not many people would leave a promising neurosurgical career to tackle some of the medical system’s most complex and deeply held issues, but Dr. Ryan Grant isn’t most people. He’s a disrupter. He’s not satisfied with the status quo. Statements like “This is the way it has always been done.” compel him to fire back …
Seventy years ago, Dr. Irving Cooper was performing a subtemporal approach for a cerebral pedunculotomy to try and correct a Parkinson’s tremor when he accidentally damaged the patient’s anterior choroidal artery. Forced to occlude the artery, Copper feared the worst. However, when the patient gained consciousness the tremor was gone. This discovery (on the back …
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The goal of any course of study is to gain mastery over the subject. Even after “mastery” has been achieved, there is always something new to learn or something old to improve upon. The journey from novice to expert should not have an ending, but rather a hearty “to be continued” like the cliff-hanger season …
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One of the most amazing things about science is that it allows us to push the boundaries of what we know to be true into the realm of what we believed was impossible. A great example of this in medical science is the research of Dr. Susan Harkema. Her work in the field of spinal …
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As a doctor, it’s my goal to help patients as much as I can, with whatever I can, as long as they are under my care. The last thing I would ever want is to prescribe medications that cause harm rather than good. That’s why I am so grateful for the research of Dr. Sara …
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For 20 years, Dr. Vania Apkarian has dedicated his research to the study of pain and how our brain perceives that experience. More recently, his focus has shifted to how chronic pain develops in injured patients and how to better treat those affected. It’s a good thing too, because chronic pain impacts 1 in 5 …
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The field of neural prosthetics is typically associated with devices that enable patients to overcome a deficit in normal function after injury. However, Dr. Eric Leuthardt wants to challenge you to rethink how humans interact with machines. What if managing an injury is just the beginning? What if we could use neural interfaces to enhance human function? …
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