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Janice Bynum Lecture

Penn Neurosurgery Residents with Janice Bynum

For four decades, Janice Bynum has been a unique and impactful presence in the operating rooms of Pennsylvania Hospital. As an OR nurse and surgical first assistant, she has provided exemplary care to thousands of neurosurgery patients and exerted a powerful influence on hundreds of surgical technicians, nurses, residents, fellows, and attending surgeons. She has worked side by side with distinguished chairs of neurosurgery at Pennsylvania Hospital, the late Dr. Frederick Simeone and current chair Dr. William Welch, and made immense contributions to clinical care and to the development of a patient-centered neurosurgery service. Her technical excellence, tireless work ethic, attention to detail, caring nature, and fundamental kindness are noteworthy and should be emulated.

In appreciation of Janice and her decades of service at Penn Medicine as a teacher and role model, the Department of Neurosurgery has proudly established the Janice Bynum Education Fund to support an annual visiting professor lecture. This lecture will feature a neurosurgeon who excels as an educator, a reflection of the importance that Janice places on teaching in the operating room.

Allan Levi, MD, PhD, FAANS

2024: Allan Levi, MD, PhD

Professor and Chairman of Neurosurgery, University of Miami MILLER School of Medicine

Chief of Neurosurgery, Jackson Memorial Hospital

Robert M. Buck Distinguished Chair in Neurological Surgery

Jaggi Visiting Professor in Functional Neurosurgery

Jurg Jaggi, PhD immigrated to Philadelphia with his wife Elsbeth in 1977 to pursue his interest in biomedical research at the University of Pennsylvania. It was here that he found his life’s work as a dedicated researcher and clinician within the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania, eventually being named a Clinical Professor. For many years, he also served as the Associate Director of our Center for Functional and Restorative Neurosurgery. His main focus was improving quality of life for patients with Parkinson’s Disease and other movement disorders through Deep Brain Stimulation surgery.
Ashwin Viswanathan, MD

2023: Ashwin Viswanathan, MD

Professor and Director of Functional Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine

Neurosurgery Service Chief, Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center

Primary Investigator, Neuromodulation Lab

Matthew Howard, MD

2022: Matthew A. Howard, III, MD

Professor and Chairman

John C. VanGilder Chair in Neurosurgery

University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics

Bradley Lega, MD

2020: Bradley Lega, MD

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and, by courtesy, of Neurology and of Psychiatry

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Dr. Smith

2019: Douglas Smith, MD

Robert A. Groff Professor of Teaching and Research in Neurosurgery

Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Halpern

2018: Casey Halpern, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Stanford University Medical Center

William J. Elias, MD

2017: William Elias, MD

Professor of Neurosurgery

University of Virginia School of Medicine

Cameron McIntyre, MD

2016: Cameron McIntyre, PhD

Tilles-Weidenthal Associate Professor of Neurology

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

William Hutchison, MD

2015: William Hutchison, MSc, PhD

Professor of Surgery and Physiology, Toronto Western Research Institute

Senior Scientist, Toronto Western Research Institute

University of Toronto

Kim Family Professor in Cerebrovascular Surgery

In 2022, the James and Agnes Kim Family Foundation announced a $25 million gift supporting multiple initiatives at Penn with one of them being this visiting professorship.

As a whole, The Kim Family Program started with this generous gift allows the Department of Neurosurgery to establish a comprehensive platform for the development of new technologies for treating neurovascular disorders—including strokes, brain hemorrhages, aneurysms, and cerebral vascular malformations—from initial design to translation into patient care. For more information on this program, click here.

Adnan Siddiqui MD, PhD, FAHA

2024: Adnan Siddiqui MD, PhD, FAHA

CEO & CMO, Jacobs Institute

SUNY Distinguished Professor & Vice Chairman

Director, Neuroendovascular Fellowship & Research

Director, Canon Stroke and Vascular Research Center 

Director, Neurosurgical Stroke Service, Kaleida Health

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2023: Michael Lawton, MD

President and CEO, Barrow Neurological Institute

Chair, Department of Neurosurgery at Barrow Neurological Institute

Chief, Neurovascular Surgery

William Mack, MD

2022: William Mack, MD

Professor of Neurological Surgery

Director, Neurointerventional Program, Keck Hospital of USC

Director, Neurosurgery Ambulatory Services, Keck Medical Center of USC

Vice Chair, Academic Affairs

Leslie N. Sutton, MD Lecture

Dr. Leslie N. Sutton was a leader in the area of Pediatric Neurosurgery. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1975, he began a medical career that would span over 40 years in the city of Philadelphia. With his specialty in pediatrics, he worked his way up the ranks, eventually becoming the Chair of Neurosurgery at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for which, the position is now named after him. In his honor, each year we now have an annual speaker give our residents a lecture on their work in the field of Pediatric Neurosurgery.

Peter Sun, MD

2023: Peter Sun, MD

Co-founder, Peacock Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders Center

Co-surgical Director, UCSF Pediatric Brain Center

Neurosurgical Director, UCSF Craniofacial Center

Pediatric Neurosurgeon

Robert Keating, MD

2022: Robert Keating, MD

Professor and Chief of Neurosurgery, Children's National Medical Center

Chair, Medical Advisory Committee on the Board of the American Syringomyelia Alliance

Founding Member, Posterior Fossa Society

Alan Cohen, MD

2018: Alan Cohen, MD

Director, Johns Hopkins Pediatric Neurosurgery

Carson-Spiro Professor of Pediatric Neurosurgery

Director, Neurosurgery Medical Student Education

Director, Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery Fellowship Program

Sandra Altman Memorial Lecture

The Sandra Altman Memorial Lecture was established to support an annual lecture given by a distinguished physician scientist whose field of interest is in the area of brain tumors. The Altman family endowed this lectureship in memory of Sandra Altman. On February 3rd, 1979 “Sandie” Altman died of a malignant glioma, barely a year after diagnosis despite the best efforts of her physicians, her family and the ever present optimism of Sandra herself.

  • 2024 Shawn Hervey-Jumper, MD, FAANS
  • 2023 Michael Lim, MD
  • 2022 James M. Markert, M.D., M.P.H
  • 2020 Alexandra Golby, M.D.
  • 2019 Amy B. Heimberger, M.D.
  • 2018 Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol, M.D., M.S.c, M.B.A.
  • 2017 John S. Kuo, M.D., Ph.D.
  • 2016 Fred G. Barker II, M.D.
  • 2015 Frederick F. Lang, Jr., M.D.
  • 2014 Andrew T. Parsa, M.D., Ph.D.
  • 2013 Rolando Del Maestro, M.D.
  • 2012 Hugues Duffau, M.D., Ph.D.
  • 2011 Ann-Christine Duhaime, M.D.
  • 2010 Eric C. Holland, M.D., Ph.D.
  • 2009 Jeffrey N. Bruce, M.D.
  • 2008 Joseph M. Piepmeier, M.D.
  • 2006 E. Antonio Chiocca, M.D.
  • 2005 James T. Rutka, M.D., Ph.D.
  • 2004 Raymond Sawaya, M.D.
  • 2003 Mitchel S. Berger, M.D.
  • 2001 Martin H. Weiss, M.D.
  • 2000 John A. Jane, M.D., Ph.D.
  • 1998 M. Gazi Yasargil, M.D.
  • 1997 Philip H. Gutin, M.D.
  • 1996 Henry Brem, M.D.
  • 1995 Patrick J. Kelly, M.D.
  • 1994 Robert I. Martuzza, M.D.
  • 1993 Edward H. Oldfield, M.D.

Sherman C. Stein, MD Visiting Professor

Dr. Stein was an outstanding teacher and resident mentor at Penn, and was one of the first neurosurgeons in the nation to focus his academic career on rigorous, statistically-based studies of neurosurgical outcomes. He passed away in early 2019 and a visiting professorship was endowed in his memory, with generous support from his family, friends, colleagues, and especially his former residents.

Douglas Kondziolka, MD

2023: Douglas Kondziolka, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS

Gray Family Professor of Neurosurgery, NYU Langone Medical Center

Vice-Chair of Clinical Research in Neurosurgery

Director, Center for Advanced Radiosurgery

Professor of Radiation Oncology

Zoher Ghogawala, MD, FACS

2022: Zoher Ghogawala, MD, FACS

Chair of Neurosurgery, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center

Professor of Neurosurgery, Tufts University School of Medicine

Co-Director, Lahey Comparative Effectiveness Research Institute

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