“with rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others—or, in a word, partnership.”
-Paul Farmer, MD, PhD
September 2024
The MGB and Gambian neurosurgery team perform the first pituitary operation in the country’s history as a part of a new Gambia-MGB partnership (led by John Jabang and Mustapha Bittaye from Gambia, and Saksham Gupta/Tim Smith/Hinna Malik from MGB)
September 2024
Alex Golby named director of the Brigham Research Institute
July 2024
John Jabang, Saksham Gupta, Hinna Malik, and Tim Smith discuss their plans with The Gambia’s ambassador to the US, The Honorable Momodou Bah
May 2024
Alex Golby works with Abel Gizaw in Ethiopia to set-up NousNav for cranial navigation.
December 2023
Kee Park leads the WFNS Global Neurosurgery Committee in Cape Town, South Africa, through over a dozen scientific sessions and planning meetings and organizes an intimate dinner event with advocates of global health in neurosurgery with representatives from over 8 countries, including Alex Golby, Wenya Linda Bi, and Saksham Gupta.
September 2023
The Boston Globe profiles the MGB Skull Base & Cerebrovascular symposium, an international meeting of top neurosurgeons that met to discuss worldwide perspectives on the management of highly complex neurosurgical disease.
June 2023
William Butler along with Brando Bojovic (pediatric plastic surgeon at MGH) travel to Antigua with Myron Rolle’s Caribbean Neurosurgery Foundation to operate alongside Patrick Knight
August 2023
We welcome CNS/MGH/HMS fellow Arnold Bhebhe from Zambia. Arnold has gone on to develop a busy clinical practice in Zambia and has co-authored several impactful manuscripts
November 2022
Alexandra Golby teaching alongside her colleague in Rwanda, Claire Karekezi
September 2022
Nirav Patel works with Paraguay surgeon Jose Kuzli to perform three complex, curative AVM resections to help build capacity to perform this operation in this country
August 2022
We welcome CNS/MGH/HMS fellow Chrystal Calderon from Trinidad & Tobago! After her intensive clinical & research fellowship, Chrystal has gone on to publish several high-impact peer-reviewed manuscripts
April 2022
Led by Myron Rolle and his Caribbean Neurosurgery Foundation, an MGB team also including Michael Groff, William Butler, Ashley Birch, Elizabeth Lamb, and Ashley Williams help provide clinical care and build relationships in Montserrat and Antigua & Barbuda
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September 2021
Ali Aziz-Sultan’s story as a refugee from Afghanistan is profiled. His background and central motivation to expand access to healthcare worldwide forms the backbone of our group.
