Resident

In medical school at Harvard, Brian Hanak served as President of the Cushing Neurosurgical Society. Brian won a Congress of Neurological Surgery Student Fellowship in Socioeconomic Research to study post-operative ICU requirements after elective craniotomy, as well as an AANS Fellowship used to investigate NKG2D ligand expression in human glioblastoma cells following radiation. In addition to this lab work, he was the Event Director for the John Warren Surgical Society at Harvard.

Brie was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. She completed her undergraduate training at Oberlin College with a double major in biology and biochemistry. At Oberlin, she was a member of the Varsity Women’s tennis team. She then moved to Nashville to attend Vanderbilt University where she earned her MD in 2016. Her research interests include endoscopic approaches to spinal neurosurgery and the use of intraoperative contrast-enhanced ultrasound. Brie is an avid tennis player and golfer. She enjoys completing puzzles and taking long walks on the beach.