Department of Neurosurgery
Facilities
Brown Neurosurgery residents train in diverse clinical settings that offer exposure to the full spectrum of neurosurgical care.
Facilities
Brown Neurosurgery residents train in diverse clinical settings that offer exposure to the full spectrum of neurosurgical care.
Hospitals
Most of the program’s residency training occurs at Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children’s Hospital. Training in the neurosurgical care of neonates takes place at Women and Infants Hospital. Because all three hospitals are physically interconnected, residents can obtain broad training on a single medical campus.
As the state’s largest, general, acute-care hospital, Rhode Island Hospital provides comprehensive care. The 719-bed private, nonprofit hospital, part of the Lifespan system, operates one of the nation’s ten busiest emergency departments. Its Level 1 Trauma Center serves a large part of southeastern New England.
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Hasbro
Children’s Hospital, designed with input from parents, children, and health-care professionals, opened in 1994 to architectural acclaim. As Rhode Island’s premier pediatric hospital, its state-of-the-art facilities include specialized emergency services, trauma treatment, and the area’s only pediatric intensive care unit.
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Women and Infants Hospital, part of Rhode Island’s Care New England network, performs over 70% of all obstetrical deliveries in the state. Each year, the hospital cares for more than 1000 critically ill newborns. Its Special Care Nursery, a Level III neonatal intensive care unit, uses an interdisciplinary approach to treating infants with serious medical problems.
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Hospital Facilities
Our Neurosurgery Department houses an 20 bed Neuro Intensive Care/Stroke Unit and highly specialized physician and nursing teams, located on the Neuroscience Floor in the Bridge Building of Rhode Island Hospital.
Similarly, we have a dedicated Spine Floor with specialized nursing staff where we care for our patients with a whole spectrum of spinal disorders. It is located on the 6th floor in the Bridge Building.
All adult neurosurgery and neurology beds, including an 18 bed Neurological Critical Care Unit, occupy one floor of Rhode Island Hospital, facilitating care delivery. Our department uses five to eight adult neurosurgical operating/procedural rooms concurrently at the hospital.
Operating rooms are equip with state of the art technology ranging from interoperative imaging, modern operating microscopes, surgical robotics and a variety of other advance operating equipment + devices.
The hospital’s New England Gamma Knife Center, initiated in 1992, was one of the first gamma knife centers in the United States. It has offered hope to patients with previously untreatable lesions.
Hasbro Children’s Hospital
Hasbro’s four pediatric operating suites include one specially equipped for pediatric neurosurgery. The hospital is set up for long-term monitoring of epilepsy patients and for brain mapping to guide epilepsy surgery. A pediatric ICU helps care for postoperative patients after craniotomy and intraspinal surgery. Full pediatric support services are provided, including dedicated pediatric neuro-oncologists and pediatric neurologists. Dedicated multidisciplinary pediatric craniofacial and neuro-oncology clinics serve our patient population. Moreover, Hasbro is the only pediatric center in New England to successfully perform fetal repair of myelomeningocele.