Ohio State University

Fellowship Program Director: Brian Dalm, MD
Program Faculty: Brian Dalm, MD; Jimmy Yang, MD; Timothy Lucas, MD, PhD; Jonathan Pindrik, MD
Length of Fellowship: 1 year
CAST/SNS Approval:  Yes
Number of Positions: 1

Program’s goals and objectives

The Ohio State University Department of Neurosurgery offers a one year, CAST-approved stereotactic functional, pain, and epilepsy fellowship at one of the highest volume centers in the United States. Fellows graduate with comprehensive expertise in all technical areas of functional, epilepsy, and cancer and non-cancer surgical pain management. Fellows will have extensive research opportunities. Fellows will be exposed to over 700 cases per year with three subspeciality-trained functional attendings. Expertise includes awake and asleep deep brain stimulation surgery, MRI-guided surgery, robotic surgery (with two different robotic systems), focused ultrasound surgery, laser ablation, stimulation and ablative procedures for pain, targeted drug delivery, stereoelectroencephalography, lobectomy, lesionectomy, vagal nerve stimulation, and responsive neural stimulation. Additionally, fellows will gain experience in advanced clinical trial design and execution, as well as investigative therapies such as gene therapy and novel neuromodulation strategies.

Neurosurgical procedure exposure

• Surgery for Movement Disorders: Yes
• Epilepsy Surgery: Yes
• Pain Procedures: Yes
• Surgery for Spasticity: Yes
• Stereotactic Radiosurgery: Yes
• Psychosurgery: Yes
• Other (please indicate): None specified

Contact Information

Brian Dalm, MD
480 Medical Center Drive
S-2044 Davis Center/Dodd Hall
Columbus, OH 43210
Email: Brian.Dalm@osumc.edu
URL: Web page