Neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
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Anatomically Inspired Three-dimensional Micro-tissue Engineered Neural Networks for Nervous System Reconstruction, Modulation, and Modeling
Published on: May 31, 2017
J A Boockvar1, A Virella, M Kotapka
1Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19104-6380, USA. boockvar@mail.med.upenn.edu
Neurosurgery
|May 12, 2000
Abstract:
The University of Pennsylvania Medical School was the nation's first medical school, and its Department of Neurosurgery is one of the nation's oldest. The history of the Department of Neurosurgery at Penn is recounted, beginning with the pioneer surgeon Charles Harrison Frazier. The evolution of the current department, its contemporary status, and its residency program are described.
