| Title of Fellowship | Advanced Endoscopic and Open Cranial Base Surgery |
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| Contact Name for Applications | Jacqueline Bell |
| Fellowship Type |
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| Location | Cleveland, OH |
| Date Fellowship Established | 07/01/2014 |
| Fellowship Director | Pablo Recinos, M.D. |
| Participating Faculty | Pablo Recinos, M.D. - Section Head, Skull Base Surgery |
Fellowship Information | |
| Duration | 1 year |
| Required Prior Training Program |
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| Required Prior Training Program Other | Neurosurgery |
| Fellow needs to have full medical license | Yes |
| Accept Foreign Medical Graduates (outside US & Canada) | Yes |
| Foreign Medical Graduates Eligibility Requirements | 1. A certified copy of current ECFMG certification and qualifying exam results 2 H1b Visa is required in order to obtain an Ohio Medical |
| Residency Training in US/Canada Required | No |
| USMLE |
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| Percentage of Fellow Workload that is Skull Base | 95% |
| Number of Fellows Accepted Per Year | 1 |
| Salaried Position | Yes- contact Program Director for more information |
| Night and Weekend Call | Yes |
| Estimated Nights Per Month | 1 in 4 weekends |
| Clinical Work | |
| Average Operative Skull Base Cases Per Year | 205 |
| Open Cranial Base | |
| Anterior | 10 |
| Anterolateral/Infratemporal | 20 |
| Lateral (temporal bone) | 20 |
| Endonasal Cranial Base | |
| Pituitary/Sella | 55 |
| Sagittal Plane (excluding pituitary) | 30 |
| Transpterygoid/ Coronal Plane | 10 |
| Temporal Bone | |
| Transtemporal/ Transcochlear | 3 |
| Middle fossa | 5 |
| Retrosigmoid | 20 |
| Craniofacial Anomalies/ Reconstructive | |
| Craniofacial Anomalies/ Reconstructive | 5 |
| Trauma | |
| Craniocervical | |
| Endonasal | 2 |
| Reconstruction | |
| Regional, Pedicled Flap Repair | 10 |
| Free Flap Repair | 5 |
| Stereotactic Radiosurgery | |
| Gammaknife | 10 |
| Cerebral Vascular Surgery | |
| Anatomical Dissection Laboratory | There is an on-site anatomical dissection laboratory were the fellow will get an opportunity to perform cadaveric dissections, both for didactic and for research purposes. |
| Laboratory Research Opportunities | The skull base clinical outcomes laboratory is composed of medical students, a research fellow and/or residents and they meet once a week. This is an ideal opportunity to become involved in a collaborative research environment and to perform research studies. There is an expectation of one scholarly work that will be submitted for publication by the end of the fellowship training year. |
| Application Deadline | 08/31/2023 |
| Decision Deadline | 12/01/2023 |
| Fellowship Institution Website | clevelandclinic.org |
| Previous Fellows | Aaron Sigler, DO - Neurosurgeon, Bayhealth Neurosurgery, Dover, Delaware (Graduated June 2016) Danilo Silva, M.D. - Director of Neurosurgery, Phelps Hospital, New York, NY (Graduated June 2017) Paramita Das, M.D. - Neurosurgeon, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL (Graduated June 2018) Hamid Borghei-Razavi, M.D. - Neurosurgeon, Cleveland Clinic Florida (Graduated June 2019) Joao Paulo Almeida, M.D. - Assoc Prof & Director of Skull Base Surgery, Indiana University SOM in Indianapolis, IN (Graduated 2020) Pranay Soni, M.D. - Neurosurgeon, Cleveland Clinic (Graduated 2021) Erion de Andrade, M.D. - Neurosurgeon, Santa Casa Porto Alegre (Graduated June 2022) Sara Alsulaimani, M.D. - Neurosurgeon, Loma Linda Univ Med Ctr, Loma Linda, CA (Graduated June 2023) Saira Alli, M.D. - Neurosurgeon, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Graduated June 2024 Silky Chotai, M.D. - current fellow, Cleveland Clinic (expected graduation date - June 2025) |
| Committee on Advanced Subspecialty Training (CAST) Accredited | Yes |
| How to apply | Please contact Jackie Bell |
NASBS
North American Skull Base Society