The Brain Aneurysm
Dr. Vini G. Khurana graduated with his medical and research degrees from the University of Sydney in 1995 and undertook his surgical internship at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences and the Thoralf Sundt Neurosurgical Research Fellowship from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where he also completed his neurosurgical residency in 2005. Dr. Khurana, recently a Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Surgery Fellow at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, under the tutelage of Dr. Robert Spetzler, has recently been appointed as Associate Professor of Neurosurgery for the University of Sydney in Australia. Dr. Robert F. Spetzler received his Bachelor of Science degree from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and his M.D. from Northwestern Medical School, Chicago, Illinois. His postgraduate training was completed at Wesley Memorial Hospital Northwestern in Chicago, Illinois, and his neurosurgical residency was completed at the University of California San Francisco, California. He achieved his Board Certification in September 1979 from the American Board of Neurological Surgery. Dr. Spetzler's academic credentials include Instructor of Neurosurgery at the University of California San Francisco, California; Assistant and Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio; and Professor of Surgery, Section of Neurosurgery, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona. Dr. Spetzler is the J.N. Harber Chairman of Neurological Surgery and Director of the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona.