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An Invitation
Come hear Dr. Alessandro Olivi present on “Intraoperative CTscan in Neurosurgery, The Hopkins Bayview Experience.”
Dr. Olivi is the Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery @ Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and the Vice Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery @ The Johns Hopkins University.
Date: January 27, 2012
Time: 7:00 AM
Address : Room 4080 Health Science Center
RSVP or for information call 304-293-2535
Fifty years at WVU School of Medicine - June 2011
When Robert Nugent, M.D., followed a colleague from Cincinnati to Morgantown in 1961, he wasn’t quite sure what the future had in store. The Yonkers, N.Y., native was leaving an established department of neurosurgery to assume a leadership role at the newly dedicated “medical center on the hill,” the WVU Health Sciences Center.
“In the early ‘60s, Morgantown was a dingy, dirty coal town,” Dr. Nugent said. “I had questions about whether I would stay here.” Fifty years later and at 90 years old, Nugent remains in Morgantown, still seeing patients as a WVU faculty member in the Department of Neurosurgery.
“In 1961, I was thinking about the year 2000, and I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if I could be around for the year 2000?’ I thought, ‘You’ll be 80 years old, you’ll never make it.’ But I did, and I did it with ease.”
Nugent believes he is the only remaining member of the inaugural health sciences crowd still on the faculty. The list of changes he has witnessed and spearheaded are too long to list. Nugent played a pivotal role in the success of the Health Sciences Center and University Hospital, through growing pains and subsequent expansion.
“When I first came here, all of us were so dedicated to providing good patient care and service to the community … to prove that this medical center was worth it,” he said. “We did not even have a billing policy set up for almost a year. Finally, Dean (Clark) Sleeth said, ‘Listen guys, we’ve got to get together and get organized and set up a billing program.’”
“We were treating all these people without billing them, and a rumor got established that (then-Governor) Okey Patteson had built this new medical center with free care for the people of West Virginia.”
To learn more about Dr. Nugent’s 50 years at WVU, click on the link.
Departure - August 2011
Julian Bailes, M.D., chair, Department of Neurosurgery, has been appointed the Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at NorthShore University Health System in Evanston, Ill. Dr. Bailes’ departure is something that we in the School of Medicine will surely feel as a loss. But he has a great opportunity and we wish him nothing but the best in his new position. NorthShore is affiliated with the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and includes four hospitals and more than 2,000 physicians, primarily in the suburbs north of Chicago. Charles L. Rosen, M.D., associate professor Department of Neurosurgery, has accepted Dean Ross’s invitation to assume the responsibilities of interim chair of the department as we search for Dr. Bailes’s successor. Sanford E. Emery, M.D., professor and chair, Department of Orthopaedics, will lead the national search for the next Chair for the Department of Neurosurgery.