Neurosurgery Grand Rounds MGH/Harvard

A speaker's perspective of a presentation
in the Ether Dome (minus the audience)
(A QuickTime .mov file)

[see movies from the Neuro ORs]

Neurosurgery Grand Rounds
Neurosurgical Service
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

MGH Neurosurgery Grand
Rounds Schedule

Neurosurgical Grand Rounds Presentations

Neurosurgey Grand Rounds
Speaker Lists

History of Neurosurgery at MGH

Disclaimer: The information and reference materials contained herein are intended solely to provide background information. They were written for an audience of physicians as participants in our Neurosurgical Grand Rounds. They are in no way intended to constitute medical advise. For medical advise a physician must be consulted. © 1998 All Rights Reserved.

This is an illustration of the Bulfinch Building, the first home of the Massachusetts General Hospital.
As you have seen, we use the symbol of the Bulfinch Building as a link to the MGH Neurosurgery homepage.

Neurosurgical Grand Rounds at MGH are presented in the Ether Dome Amphitheater located in the dome of the Bulfinch Building each Thursday from 8-9 a.m.. We use Mr Hinkley's painting of the first ether operation as a link to our Neurosugery Grand Rounds.

See also:

History of Neurosurgery at MGH
"We have conquered pain" A Celebration of Ether 1846-1996.
Hinkley's Who Was Who On Ether Day (Boston Medical Library).
Neurosurgical Internet Grand Rounds master list at UNC.
To read or make comments on these cases, go to the Neurosurgery Internet Grand Rounds Bulletin Board System at UNC.

Ether Dome Presentations

Extent of resection in the treatment of gliomas - Fred G. Barker II, M.D. - Grand Rounds 02/2008 - ppt version
"Endovascualr Treatment of intracranial aneurysms: Problems, methods and potential solutions" - from Jean Raymond, M.D., Neuroradiologist , Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM, University of Montreal Hospital Centre), Director of the Interventional Neuroradiology Research Laboratory, Professor,Department of Radiology, Radiation Oncology and Nuclear Medicine at the University of Montreal. - [pdf copy of brochure]

[ html version of presentation ] [ pdf of presentation ] [ppt version of presentation ] [mht version of presentation]
"Mapping Midbrain Modulation of Motivation" - from Charles D. Blaha, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychology University of Memphis - [pdf copy of brochure] - The William H. Sweet Lecture on Functional Neurosurgery & Pain

[pdf of presentation] [ppt version of presentation] [mht version of presentation] [html version of presentation]
"Altered Venous Hemodynamics - Their Importance in Relation to Dural A-V Fistulas and Arteriovenous Malformations" - from Dr Paul Chapman
"Lymphomas in Peripheral Nerve" - from E. Antonio Chiocca, M.D., Ph.D.
December 1997; MGH Neurosurgical Service Update from Dr John Yu
Cognitive and Functional Rehabilitation in Brain Injury - from Hilary Siebens, M.D.
July 1997; MGH Neurosurgical Service Update from Dr Stephen Tatter

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