Stereotactic and Functional Fellowship

Penn Medicine offers a CAST-accredited Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Fellowship, directed by Dr. Casey Halpern, which is a year-long mentorship opportunity for clinical instructors who have completed their residency training in neurosurgery. This fellowship will provide opportunities across all domains of this subspecialty, and offers flexibility for the fellow to design their curriculum with input from Dr. Halpern, should specific interests exist in one particular area of our division.

At Penn, over 120 deep brain stimulation and 100 transcranial focused ultrasound procedures are performed annually, and this high volume program is well-complemented by a robust epilepsy surgery and pain practice that the fellow can also experience. There will be three neurosurgical faculty mentoring this fellow, Drs. Halpern, Chen, and Cajigas, all of whom are also involved in federally funded research programs including novel trials that further improve the breadth of experience to be had. In addition to this busy clinical training program, the fellow will be expected to be involved and even lead research endeavors that match their interest with 1 protected day for research per week at least. The aim of this mentoring opportunity is to train our subspecialty’s future leaders, and being at Penn on the same campus as the University makes this very possible.