About Ϲ Neurosurgery
Neurosurgery Historical Perspectives
1893: The College was founded as the Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons.
1913: The Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Milwaukee Medical College merged to form Marquette University School of Medicine.
1963: Neurosurgery became a Division of Surgery with full-time faculty; Dr. Sanford Larson was recruited as the first Chair of Neurosurgery.
1964: The department’s Neuroscience Research Laboratories founded by Drs. Sanford Larson and Anthony Sances, Jr., at the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center as a joint program with the Department of Biomedical Engineering of Marquette University.
1971: First neurosurgery resident completed the training program.
1987: Dr. Sanford Larson initiated the first Spine Fellowship Program in the country.
1988: Neurosurgery became a Department of the Ϲ.
1991: Dr. Frank A Pintar appointed Director of the Neuroscience Research Laboratories.
1998: The Department establishes the Vehicle Crash Lab as the only car crash facility in an academic institution in the world.
1999: Dr. Larson retired; Dr. Thomas Gennarelli was appointed as Chair of Neurosurgery. Pediatric Division created; Dr. Bruce Kaufman was appointed Chief.
2003: Neuroscience Research Laboratories at the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center established with Dr. Frank Pintar as Director.
2008: Translational Brain Tumor Research Program formed. Research Division created, Dr. Frank Pintar is appointed Chief. The Department invests $3 million to build the Neurosurgery Research Facility.
2009: Neurosurgery Research Facility opened, a state-of-the-art laboratory for neuroscience and biomechanics research. Dr. Thomas Gennarelli retired as Chair; Dr. Dennis Maiman was appointed as Chair of Neurosurgery.
2016: Dr. Shekar Kurpad appointed Interim Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery. Dr. Sean Lew appointed Chief of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery.
2017: Dr. Shekar Kurpad appointed Sanford J. Larson Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery.
Surgical Procedures
3,500+
700+
200+
Resident & Fellow Placement
The Department of Neurosurgery has placed a significant number of residents and fellows in academic positions.
46%
60%
Operative and Clinical Practices
- Our neurosurgeons staff the only two Level One Trauma Centers in southeastern Wisconsin
- NAEC Level 4 pediatric epilepsy surgery program
- Stereotactic laser ablation (Visualase)
- Combined Interventional and open operative suite
- Intraoperative O-arm (2)
- Intraoperative MRI (2017)
- 6 neurosurgical operative microscopes and 7 stealth stations
- Stereotactic radiosurgery
- 40 new pediatric brain tumors/year
- Stereoencephalography
- Magnetoencephalography
- Fetal myelomeningocele closure
- International leaders in spine surgery and spine biomechanics, brain injury, and neurotrauma
Contact Us
The Ϲ is located on the western edge of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Care for neurosurgery patients is provided at Froedtert Hospital, Children’s Wisconsin, and the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center.
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Hub for Collaborative Medicine
8701 Watertown Plank Rd.
Milwaukee, WI 53226
Scheduling
(414) 955-7188
Administration
(414) 955-0950
