Department Announcements

David J. Bonda, MD, (Pediatric) Stephanie H. Chen, MD (Endovascular), Imad S. Khan, MD (Spine), Patrick Kim, MD (Spine), and Andrew J. Montoure, MD (CV/Skull Base) 

David J. Bonda, MD

Congratulations to members of the department who were voted Top Doctors in the Puget Sound region for 2022 by Seattle Magazine. For more than two decades, “Seattle” magazine has published a list of the region’s top doctors. None paid to be included. All were nominated by their peers.

In 2015, Melissa Hunter, decided to undergo surgery for epilepsy with Dr. Jeffrey G.

Dr. Michael Levitt is among the top 100 social media influencers (#72) in Neurosurgery on Twitter.  Read the full story here.

Adriel Barrios-Anderson, who served as a student orator upon earning his bachelor’s degree from Brown in 2017, hopes to inspire newly minted M.D.s to feel confident about embracing the uncertainty of the future.

When you hear the phrase “brain aneurysm” a familiar image probably comes to mind of a medical emergency.

Congratulations to Dr. Ojemann whose proposal “Motor Recovery through Plasticity-Inducing Cortical Stimulation” has received grant in the amount of $8,000,000 from the National Institute Of Neurological Disorders And Stroke (NINDS) of the National Institutes of Health.

The team at the University of Washington’s Center for Neurotechnology is working out how best to engineer stimulation to the brain to restore tactile sensations that allow people to perform useful tasks.

Daniel Fine celebrated this 30th birthday in a hospital room with his life on the line.  No one suspected he would have a brain tumor at age 29. To make matters worse, at the time of his diagnosis, Daniel was thousands of miles from home and needed a complex surgery. 

Scientists and doctors including Dr. Melanie Walker and Dr. Michael Levitt are exploring the use mitochondria infusions to jump-start the cellular processes required to heal damaged hearts, brains, and maybe even other organs in a way that drugs haven’t been able to.