Overview
Neurosurgery residency training at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University takes place at Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children’s Hospital. Curtis E. Doberstein, MD is the vice-chair of the department and the director of the neurosurgery residency program. Resident training at Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children’s Hospital provides experience in all areas of neurosurgery including:
- pediatric neurosurgery, including fetal neurosurgery
- neurosurgical oncology, including endoscopic skull-base surgery and Gamma Knife radiosurgery
- cerebrovascular and complex skull base neurosurgery
- complex and minimally invasive spine surgery for traumatic and degenerative conditions
- complex spine surgery for spinal tumors
- functional, epilepsy and psychiatric neurosurgery, including focused ultrasound
- endovascular neurosurgery
- peripheral nerve surgery
The medical school’s Department of Neurosurgery works closely with colleagues in neurology, neuropathology, neuroradiology, interventional radiology, neuroscience, and pediatrics.
Residents gain critical care experience in the neurosurgical critical care unit (NCCU), the trauma intensive care unit (TICU), the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), and the surgical intensive care unit (SICU). They may conduct research at any of the seven Brown-affiliated hospitals or at Brown University and The Warren Alpert Medical School.