Robert R. Johnson, III, M.D.
Assistant Professor,

Neurological Surgery Department
Sinai-Grace Hospital
Lourdes Building,
6071 West Outer Drive, Suite 635
Detroit, Michigan 48235
Office: (313) 966-4876
Fax: (313) 966-4842
                            email: rjohnson@neurosurgery.wayne.edu

A. Goals of the Program

The neurological surgery fellowship program is designed to prepare visiting foreign neurosurgeons, and neurosurgical residents from local osteopathic programs, for practice in the area of general neurosurgery (i.e., management of closed head injury, microsurgery, pediatric, skull base, spine and stereotactic). The fellow, within the three - four year untracked residency fellowship program, will rotate within the Detroit Medical Center Hospitals under the direction of Robert Johnson, III, M.D., Assistant Professor and Chief of Neurological Surgery at Sinai-Grace Hospital. The fellowship is a three - four year program and is approximately 80% clinical and 20% research.

B. Program Experience

During the first year of the fellowship program the fellow will be assigned to Sinai-Grace Hospital under the direction of Robert Johnson, III, M.D. While on the neurosurgery service at Sinai-Grace Hospital, the neurosurgery fellows function as senior neurosurgical residents, performing surgical procedures commensurate with their abilities. They acquire knowledge and expertise in the use of specialized intra operative techniques in operating suites utilizing the latest in intra operative technology. The fellows operate on all manners of neurosurgical lesions including skull base, cerebrovascular tumors, trauma, spinal disorders, peripheral nerve disease and pediatric neurosurgery.

Following satisfactory completion of this first year, the fellow will have the opportunity to participate in some elective rotations on the central campus including Detroit Receiving Hospital, Harper Hospital and Children's Hospital of Michigan. It is expected that the fellow will function eventually assume the responsibility of a chief resident at Sinai/Grace Hospital during his/her program. During his fellowship, the fellow is expected to assist in a research project and complete a paper for publication on a yearly basis. This project will be under the supervision of a faculty member in the Department of Neurological Surgery. Special research interests of the Neurological Surgery Department at Wayne State University include: aneurysms, subarachnoid hemorrhage, vasospasm, stroke, stereotactic surgery, closed head injury, spinal cord injury, radiosurgery, microsurgery and epilepsy surgery.

C. Teaching Conferences

The program maintains an active schedule of weekly conferences. The fellow is expected to be an active, prepared participant in research conferences as well as neurological surgery grand rounds, journal clubs, skull base conference, neuro-trauma multi-disciplinary rounds, etc.