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Chiocca 1913 The Peter Bent Brigham Hospital opens with Dr. Harvey Cushing as its first surgeon-in-chief. 1913-1932 Dr. Harvey Cushing’s tenure at the Peter Bent Brigham hospital. He is a visionary who sees neurosurgery as the highest achievement of the surgeon’s art and will become one of the most respected physicians in the world during his time. 1920(s) The Boston Children’s Hospital was founded in 1848 but had very little neurosurgery as part of its early years. In the 1920s, Dr. Cushing operates on pediatric patients with brain tumors at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and transfers them post-operatively back to Children’s. By 1926, Dr. Cushing has operated on 1,108 brain tumor patients, 154 of whom were under the age of 15 and two dozen under the age of five. 1929 Cushing encourages his trainee, Dr. Franc Ingraham, to start a pediatric neurosurgical service at the Boston Children’s Hospital. With the publication of Neurosurgery of Infancy and Childhood, Dr. Ingraham essentially creates the field of pediatric neurosurgery. 1939 Like Cushing, Dr. Ingraham acquires a following of fellows to work in the laboratory or clinic. Among them are Drs. Eben Alexander, Jr. and Donald Matson, both of whom started as surgical interns at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Dr. Matson was to become a leading light in both adult and pediatric neurosurgery. 1949 With the war ended, Dr. Matson returns to Boston and the Brigham. 1958 Drs. Ingraham and Matson are joined by Dr. John Shillito, who started as a surgical intern at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1952, and after a year in Memphis with Dr. Francis Murphy, returns to join the Children’s staff. 1940(s) When World War II takes Dr. Matson and many others abroad, Dr. Ingraham assumes the neurosurgical responsibilities at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital as well as the Children’s Hospital. This began a tradition of the neurosurgical service as a unified group of attending neurosurgeons at the two hospitals. 1964 Dr. Ingraham retires as Chief of Neurosurgery. A year later, he succumbs to his second myocardial infarction. In his memory, the Franc D. Ingraham Professorship of Neurosurgery is established at the Harvard Medical School. 1968 Dr. Donald Matson is appointed the first Franc D. Ingraham Professor of Neurosurgery. He will succumb to an untimely death in 1969. 1971 Dr. Keasley Welch is appointed as the second Franc D. Ingraham Professor of Neurosurgery. 1976 The Peter Bent Brigham Hospital becomes part of the Affiliated Hospitals Center, which would be renamed the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 1980. 1987 Dr. Welch retires as Chief of Neurosurgery of the two hospitals and remains on staff as Professor Emeritus. Dr. Peter Black is selected as the third Franc D. Ingraham Professor of Neurosurgery at the Harvard Medical School and Neurosurgeon-in-Chief at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital. 1988 Dr. Black recruits Dr. R. Michael Scott as Director of Clinical Pediatric Neurosurgery. 2007 BWH announces Dr. Arthur Day as the Department of Neurosurgery’s new Chair and Neurosurgeon-in-Chief. 2006 After 20 years, Dr. Black decides to give the administrative functions of the BWH service to a new Chair. The future for academic neurosurgery is changing; a crucial issue now is to maintain the ability to carry forward the academic mission despite fiscal and regulatory constraints. We believe that it is critical to continue to train neurosurgeons who are expert scientists and clinically skillful surgeons and who want to live in these two increasingly complex worlds. Otherwise, we believe that the speciality will wither, lose its academic respectability, and become pedestrian. This is an unparalleled time to bring the understandings of neuroscience and oncology, among other disciplines, to the neurosurgical bedside. The Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital neurosurgical service is determined to remain in the forefront of this effort as we help train the neurosurgical leaders of tomorrow. Welch Cushing Ingraham Matson Black Shillito 1969 Dr. John Shillito is appointed Acting Neurosurgeon-in- Chief as Dr. Matson’s health rapidly declines. Dr. Shillito hands over the position to Dr. Welch in 1971 and retires in 1995 after 37 years on the faculty. Day 2010 Dr. Albert John Popp is appointed chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery. As program director of the neurosurgical residency program, Dr. Popp enhances the seven-year training program by expanding the program by one resident per year. 2010 Dr. Arthur Day leaves Brigham and Women’s Hospital to join the medical school faculty at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. 2012 Dr. John Popp leaves Brigham and Women’s Hospital and joins the Neurosurgery faculty at Stanford as Vice Chair of Strategic Planning and Development and Medical Director of Neurosciences. 2012 Dr. E. Antonio “Nino” Chiocca is named Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women’s/Faulkner Hospitals. Dr. Chiocca also serves as co-director of the BWH/Faulkner Institute for Neurosciences and the surgical oncology discipline leader of the DFCI/ BWH Cancer Center Neuro- oncology Disease Center. Dr. Chiocca is the inaugural Harvey W. Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School. 2004 Dr. Scott becomes Neurosurgeon-in-Chief at Boston Children’s Hospital and Dr. Black continues as the Chair of Neurosurgery for both the Brigham and Women’s and Boston Children’s Hospitals. Popp
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1913The Peter Bent Brigham Hospital opens with Dr. Harvey Cushing as its first surgeon-in-chief.
1913-1932Dr. Harvey Cushing’s tenure at the Peter Bent Brigham hospital. He is a visionary who sees neurosurgery as the highest achievement of the surgeon’s art and will become one of the most respected physicians in the world during his time.
1920(s)The Boston Children’s Hospital was founded in 1848 but had very little neurosurgery as part of its early years. In the 1920s, Dr. Cushing operates on pediatric patients with brain tumors at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and transfers them post-operatively back to Children’s. By 1926, Dr. Cushing has operated on 1,108 brain tumor patients, 154 of whom were under the age of 15 and two dozen under the age of five.
1929Cushing encourages his trainee, Dr. Franc Ingraham, to start a pediatric neurosurgical service at the Boston Children’s Hospital. With the publication of Neurosurgery of Infancy and Childhood, Dr. Ingraham essentially creates the field of pediatric neurosurgery.
1939Like Cushing, Dr. Ingraham acquires a following of fellows to work in the laboratory or clinic. Among them are Drs. Eben Alexander, Jr. and Donald Matson, both of whom started as surgical interns at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Dr. Matson was to become a leading light in both adult and pediatric neurosurgery.
1949With the war ended, Dr. Matson returns to Boston and the Brigham.
1958Drs. Ingraham and Matson are joined by Dr. John Shillito, who started as a surgical intern at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1952, and after a year in Memphis with Dr. Francis Murphy, returns to join the Children’s staff.
1940(s)When World War II takes Dr. Matson and many others abroad, Dr. Ingraham assumes the neurosurgical responsibilities at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital as well as the Children’s Hospital. This began a tradition of the neurosurgical service as a unified group of attending neurosurgeons at the two hospitals.
1964Dr. Ingraham retires as Chief of Neurosurgery. A year later, he succumbs to his second myocardial infarction. In his memory, the Franc D. Ingraham Professorship of Neurosurgery is established at the Harvard Medical School.
1968Dr. Donald Matson is appointed the first Franc D. Ingraham Professor of Neurosurgery. He will succumb to an untimely death in 1969.
1971Dr. Keasley Welch is appointed as the second Franc D. Ingraham Professor of Neurosurgery.
1976The Peter Bent Brigham Hospital becomes part of the Affiliated Hospitals Center, which would be renamed the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 1980.
1987Dr. Welch retires as Chief of Neurosurgery of the two hospitals and remains on staff as Professor Emeritus. Dr. Peter Black is selected as the third Franc D. Ingraham Professor of Neurosurgery at the Harvard Medical School and Neurosurgeon-in-Chief at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital.
1988 Dr. Black recruits Dr. R. Michael Scott as Director of Clinical Pediatric Neurosurgery.
2007BWH announces Dr. Arthur Day as the Department of Neurosurgery’s new Chair and Neurosurgeon-in-Chief.
2006After 20 years, Dr. Black decides to give the administrative functions of the BWH service to a new Chair.
The future for academic neurosurgery is changing; a crucial issue now is to maintain the ability to carry forward the academic mission despite fiscal and regulatory constraints. We
believe that it is critical to continue to train neurosurgeons who are expert scientists and clinically skillful surgeons and who want
to live in these two increasingly complex worlds. Otherwise, we believe that the speciality will wither, lose its academic
respectability, and become pedestrian. This is an unparalleled time to bring the understandings of neuroscience and oncology,
among other disciplines, to the neurosurgical bedside. The Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital
neurosurgical service is determined to remain in the forefront of this effort as we help train the neurosurgical leaders of tomorrow.
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IngrahamMatson BlackShillito
1969Dr. John Shillito is appointed Acting Neurosurgeon-in-Chief as Dr. Matson’s health rapidly declines. Dr. Shillito hands over the position to Dr. Welch in 1971 and retires in 1995 after 37 years on the faculty.
Day
2010Dr. Albert John Popp is appointed chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery. As program director of the neurosurgical residency program, Dr. Popp enhances the seven-year training program by expanding the program by one resident per year.
2010Dr. Arthur Day leaves Brigham and Women’s Hospital to join the medical school faculty at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
2012Dr. John Popp leaves Brigham and Women’s Hospital and joins the Neurosurgery faculty at Stanford as Vice Chair of Strategic Planning and Development and Medical Director of Neurosciences.
2012Dr. E. Antonio “Nino” Chiocca is named Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women’s/Faulkner Hospitals. Dr. Chiocca also serves as co-director of the BWH/Faulkner Institute for Neurosciences and the surgical oncology discipline leader of the DFCI/ BWH Cancer Center Neuro-oncology Disease Center. Dr. Chiocca is the inaugural Harvey W. Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School.
2004Dr. Scott becomes Neurosurgeon-in-Chief at Boston Children’s Hospital and Dr. Black continues as the Chair of Neurosurgery for both the Brigham and Women’s and Boston Children’s Hospitals.
Popp
