The Weill Cornell Medicine Brain and Spine Center has accepted two new residents into its prestigious training program in neurological surgery. Our highly competitive program receives hundreds of applications each year, a pool from which only two are selected. Our new residents will now begin their first year of a rigorous seven-year neurological surgery training program, during which they will train under some of the top brain and spine surgeons and researchers in the world today.
Evan Bander, M.D., is a 2016 graduate of Weill Cornell Medical College, where he won the Sidney and Viola Borkon Memorial Prize, awarded annually to the student who places at the top of the class for scholastic performance upon completion of the pre-clinical curriculum. Dr. Bander was selected for membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society in 2015.
Alexander Ramos, M.D., comes to our program from the University of California in San Francisco, where was awarded a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences in 2014 and his M.D. in 2016. Dr. Ramos has been awarded an NIH Medical Scientist Training Fellowship, a California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Training Grant, and an NIH F31 Training Grant.
Our three most recent graduates of the residency program, Chief Residents Heather McCrea, M.D.,Ph.D., and Michael Virk, M.D., Ph.D., and Interventional Neuroradiology Fellow Joshua Marcus, M.D., have moved on to begin their careers as neurosurgeons. Dr. McCrea has accepted a fellowship in pediatric neurosurgery at Boston Children’s Hospital; Dr. Virk has accepted a Complex and Minimally Invasive Spine Fellowship at the University of California in San Francisco; and Dr. Marcus will join the practice of the Neurosurgical Associates of Southwest Connecticut. The Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center congratulates Dr. McCrea, Dr. Virk, and Dr. Marcus on their accomplishment and wish them the best in their careers.
