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| Neurosurgery |
In 1908 the Cooper Medical College in San Francisco was adopted as Stanford University 's School of Medicine . Training consisted of 2 years of basic science at the Stanford Campus followed by 2 years clinical teaching at the San Francisco facility. In 1919 the Stanford Home for Convalescent Children was founded.
In 1919 Edward Towne, MD (a trainee of the neurosurgery pioneer Harvey Cushing at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and later at the Mayo Clinic) began Neurosurgery at Stanford University, where he worked with Drs. Ted Fender and Fritz Reichert (who had completed his residency with William Halsted and had trained with the eminent neurosurgeon Walter Dandy of Johns Hopkins). In 1926 Reichert was appointed Chief of Neurosurgery, shortly after which Towne resigned. In 1942 Emile Holman, MD (then Chief of Surgery) turned his private practice over to Reichert. Reichert was among a small group of neurosurgeons that included Howard Naffzinger, Chair of the Department of Surgery and Division Neurosurgery, UCSF (also a Cushing trainee) to develop the field in Northern California in the early part of the 20 th century.
A turning point in Stanford Neurosurgery came in 1954 when John Hanbery, MD, was recruited to Stanford by Emile Holman as an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery in Department of Surgery. Dr. Hanbery was a Stanford undergraduate who attended Stanford Medical School and completed his residency in General Surgery at Stanford. Although he was accepted by Walter Dandy to pursue a Neurosurgery residency at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Dandy died, and Hanbery went instead to the Montreal Neurological Institute ( McGill University ) to study with Drs. Wilder Penfield and William Cone.
In 1959 the Medical School moved from San Francisco to the Stanford Campus, into the new Palo Alto-Stanford Medical Center Hospital (co-owned by the City of Palo Alto ). In that year Dr. Hanbery temporarily left full-time academics to join James Golden, MD at the Palo Alto Clinic. He remained on the Stanford teaching faculty during that time, however, and in 1961, as Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery, he established Stanford Neurosurgery Residency training program. In 1964 Dr. Hanbery returned to full-time faculty when he was appointed (by Roy Cohn, MD, Chair of Surgery) Professor and Head of the Division of Neurosurgery. He would head the division until 1989.
Jake Hanbery was a consummate clinician, a superb technical surgeon, a leader in the development of Spine Neurosurgery and Pediatric Neurosurgery. Most notable, however, were his devotion and loyalty to Neurosurgery residents. During his tenure he trained 26 residents (many of whom remain on the Stanford faculty) in surgical and clinical technique, and effective and compassionate bedside manner. He recruited to the Neurosurgery faculty what would become the nexus of our current roster, including Gerald Silverberg (1973), Frances Conley (1975), Richard Britt (1977), Larry Shuer (1984), John Adler (1987), and our current Chair, Gary Steinberg (1987). In 1974 former residents honored Dr. Hanbery by establishing the John W. Hanbery Neurosurgical Society, an organization of Stanford Resident Alumni and honored guest members that meet annually to present scientific and clinical papers.
In 1996 Gary Steinberg, MD, PhD, became Chair of the department and began an unprecedented expansion of our clinical and basic research programs. Today our faculty consists of 15 neurosurgeons and 10 research faculty. The number of surgical cases has nearly tripled in the last 10 years, and NIH and other extramural funding has grown steadily. We currently rank sixth of total NIH funding, and have gone from about $100 thousand in 1996 to nearly $5 million in 2004 in total extramural funds. The expansion of our department is illustrated below:
Department of Neurosurgery 1996
| Gary K. Steinberg, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman | (415) 723 5575 / Fax: (415) 723 2815 |
| Gerald D. Silverberg, M.D. | (415) 723 5574 |
| Frances K. Conley, M.D. | (415) 725 5562 |
| Lawrence M. Shuer, M.D. | (415) 723 6093 |
| John R. Adler, M.D. | (415) 723 5573 |
