SBMC is a 650 bed, multispecialty tertiary care hospital.
It is the namesake of the SBHCS and the base institution
of the residency program. It has 18 operating rooms, one
of which is dedicated to neurosurgery. It has 1 MRI, 2 CT
scans and 2 angiography suits on the premises and another
3 MRI’s including one with 3.0 Tesla magnet and 2 CT
scans at the Ambulatory Care Center (ACC) approximately four
miles from the Medical Center. Pain and minor neurosurgical
procedures are performed at the ACC. SBMC also has a dedicated
4 bed Neurosurgical ICU (NSICU) with the latest monitoring
equipment and specially trained neurosurgical nurses. The
Medical Center is highly computerized with well trained nursing
and ancillary personnel. These resources minimize the amount
of non-educational duties (i.e., service work) for the residents.
The neurosurgical residents interact with residents from
other specialty residency programs. In addition to neurosurgery,
there is a large cardiac, general, transplant, vascular and
orthopedic (including spine) surgery programs. The neurosurgery
residents are offered the opportunity to participate in vascular
surgery cases where carotid artery surgery and stenting are
performed as well as in orthopedic spine surgery.
There is a general Neurology Section at the Medical Center
with 15 attending physicians, a dedicated neuroradiologist,
neuropathologist, two neurointensivists and endovascular
neurointerventional neurosurgeon. SBMC has the largest epilepsy
program in NJ with dedicated two floors of monitored beds,
7 epileptologists and one dedicated epilepsy surgeon. A specialized
stroke neurologist heads a new stroke program which includes
a neurointerventional neurosurgeon who is trained to perform
intravascular clot lysis, coiling of aneurysms or AVMs and
other endovascular procedures. The neurosurgical residents
receive their training in pediatric neurosurgery under the
direction of Dr. Arno Fried. They are exposed to a variety
of elective pediatric neurosurgical procedures as well as
trauma. Furthermore, There is a strong radiation oncology
department which works together with the neurosurgical staff
in performing stereotactic radiosurgery using LINAC knife.
The pain procedures are performed at the ambulatory Care
Center. In addition to staff neurosurgeons performing pain
procedures including placement of pain pumps and spinal cords
stimulators, the residents rotate with Ray Pak, D.O. who
is the Director of Pain Center. Dr. Pak is an anesthesiologist
who performs over 400 pain procedures per year.
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center (NBIMC) is an integral
part of the residency training program. It is an urban 640
bed hospital located in Newark, NJ. It is a tertiary care
hospital with strong cardiac, transplant and robotic surgery
program. In addition to neurosurgery, it has several other
residency programs and fellowships in pulmonary-critical
care and vascular surgery (in addition to several medical
specialty fellowships).
The hospital has a dedicated fully equipped neurosurgical
operating room with new Zeiss microscope. Neurosurgery patients
are cared for in ICU following surgery and attended to by
medical residents and critical are fellows. NBIMC has the
latest rotational angiography suite in addition to an MRI
and 2 CT scans. The Children’s Hospital if NJ with
neonatal and pediatric ICUs is located with NBIMC and serves
as a tertiary referral center. Although not a Level I Trauma
Center, the Medical Center has a busy emergency department
(over 80,000 visits per year) and manages routine trauma.
Every two weeks the neurosurgical residents provide care
for the indigent patients at a neurosurgical clinic at BIMC
where they provide direct care and order tests and treatments
under the supervision of an attending. BIMC is approximately
7 miles from SBMC. The research laboratory which was previously
described is attached to BIMC hospital.
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