Effective July 1, Daniel Yoshor, MD, will become chair of Neurosurgery and vice president of Clinical Integration and Innovation for the Health System. He will succeed current Neurosurgery chair Sean Grady, MD, who will continue to serve as physician director of the Neurosciences Service Line.
Yoshor is currently chair of Neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. There he has served as program director for the its neurosurgery residency program, one of the largest in the nation, and as chief of Neurosurgery at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center since 2010. Under his leadership as chair, the department rose to No. 3 in the country in National Institutes of Health funding.
As a clinical neurosurgeon, Yoshor focuses on endoscopic pituitary and skull base surgery, as well as brain tumor and epilepsy surgery. He also has extensive experience in clinical brain mapping and in the development and clinical implementation of novel neuro-technologies.
Lawrence Wechsler, MD, has been named chair of Neurology at Pennsylvania Hospital. He reports to Frances E. Jensen, MD, chair of Neurology.
Formerly the chair of Neurology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Wechsler founded the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Stroke Institute. He was also principal investigator for the Pittsburgh regional coordinating center of StrokeNet — the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Stroke Trials Network, which was created to streamline and accelerate the translation of experimental stroke therapies to clinical application.