Neuroendovascular Surgery Fellowship
Geisinger’s Neuroendovascular Surgery Fellowship — one of only 35 approved programs — prepares you to succeed in this new and growing field of minimally invasive, high-tech care.
About us
Do you want to be a leader on the cutting edge of new surgical techniques?
Then consider applying for Geisinger’s Neuroendovascular Surgery Fellowship — one of just 35 approved fellowship programs in this exciting, evolving field of medicine.
Neuroendovascular (NES) surgery is a subspecialty that uses minimally invasive catheter-based technology, radiological imaging and human clinical expertise to diagnose and treat vascular diseases of the central nervous system and other disorders of the head, neck and spine and their vascular supply.
As our neuroendovascular surgery fellow, you’ll gain the unique training and skills needed to succeed in this challenging subspecialty.
You can take the educational program in neuroendovascular surgeryduring the neurosurgical residency. Or complete your training after satisfactory completion/validation of catheter-based skills and competency, as well as all other prerequisites for each individual specialty. This prerequisite training may include:
- An ACGME-recognized neurosurgical residency
- An ACGME-recognized neurology residency followed by a stroke or critical care fellowship
- An ACGME-recognized radiology residency followed by a neuroradiology fellowship, during which you spent at least six months of focused clinical service in a neurosurgery, vascular neurology orneuro-intensive care program.
Our fellowship training structure follows the criteria set forth by the Committee on Advanced Subspecialty Training (CAST).
Salary, benefits and employment highlights
About Geisinger
Geisinger serves more than 1 million people in central and northeastern Pennsylvania. We’ve been nationally recognized for innovative practices in quality, delivery models such as ProvenCare® and the use of an award-winning electronic medical record, Epic®. Our physician-led system has about 24,000 employees, including more than 1,700 physicians, 10 hospital campuses, two research centers and a health plan with more than half a million members, all of which boost our hometown economies by $8+ billion annually.
Location
Danville, Pa., is a unique and wonderful place to train. Opportunities for outdoor recreation are endless, the cost of living is low and traffic is almost nonexistent. In addition, we’re close enough to Philadelphia, New York City and Washington, D.C., to make weekend getaways easy.
Program Overview
During your first year, you’ll focus on learning more advanced endovascular anatomy of the vasculatures of the brain, spine, head and neck, as this is a crucial foundation for completing procedures, including the management of complex neurovascular patients.
You’ll develop increased proficiency in endovascular access and perform at least 200 catheter-based diagnostic and/or interventional cerebral angiographic procedures as the primary operator.
You’ll also gain experience and competency in catheter techniques, plus an understanding of indications for diagnostic and interventional procedures. To expand your knowledge and make sure you’re at the leading edge of new treatments, you’ll have:
- Exposure to patients and techniques in clinical trials
- An introduction to innovative care pathway development, such as Geisinger’s ProvenCare®, designed to reduce costs while delivering the best patient outcomes
- A grounding in comparative effectiveness research
Year two – Advanced NES training
During your second year, you’ll gain significant clinical experience, culminating in the performance of a broad spectrum of diagnostic and interventional endovascular procedures as defined by core-competency requirements.
Another essential part of this year is participation in academic medical knowledge and patient care training processes relative to NES, including satisfactory completion of milestone level 5 for cerebrovascular diseases.
A multitude of clinical trials are also open and in development in the neurovascular space, and you’ll have the chance to partner with outstanding faculty mentors.
| Type | Frequency | Duration (hours) |
| Neurosurgery grand rounds/topics | Bi-weekly | 1 |
| Cerebrovascular case conference | Weekly |
1 |
| Neurosurgery M&M | Monthly |
1 |
| NS journal club | Monthly |
1 |
| Stroke M&M | Monthly |
1 |
| Stroke core committees | Weekly |
1 |
| Neurovascular research conference | Weekly | 1 |