Updates

We hosed the first annual MCG Scrubs World Series Softball Tournament, September, 2025! We had an amazing time and are looking forward to hopefully hosting another one next year! We couldn't have pulled off the event without the amazing teams, volunteers, and GME office. We want to extend a special thank you to Sarah Tate Edmond, Izzy Black, Mayra Figueroa, and Kasie Plagenhoef for volunteering their time and talents during the event! 

The Medical College of Georgia Department of Neurosurgery would like to send a big thank you for your participation in the Third Annual Marshall B. Allen Symposium.
Your contributions to this meeting are essential to advancing the quality of our educational content. We are thankful for your continuing commitment to the advancement of knowledge and your efforts in making this meeting a success.

Wellstar MCG Health achieves medical first: Procedure offers hope for aneurysm patients: Neurosurgeons at Wellstar MCG Health Medical Center achieved a new surgical approach to treat an aneurysm behind the eye. It’s called endoscopic endonasal clipping of a superior ophthalmic aneurysm. Read full article here: Procedure offers hope for aneurysm patients.

Medical College of Georgia’s EXEMPLARY TEACHING AWARDS AY2023/24

Congratulations to Samuel Macomson, MD and Lydia Kaoutzani, MD in recognition of their excellence in teaching MCG medical students and residents.

Khoi Nguyen, MD named MCG’s Outstanding Young Alumnus on behalf of the MCG Alumni Association!

Christopher Carr, MD chosen for 2025-2026 Neurosurgery Publications Resident Fellowship with Congress of Neurosurgeons. 

Christopher Carr gives second presentation about Suicide Prevention at Fort Eisenhower Naval Reserve Center Health Promotions Lecture Series.

International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery Annual Meeting, October 2024

• • C Carr, W Ledford, M Alfaro, C Conger, J Henson, K Nguyen give oral presentation titled: Spontaneous Subependymal Giant Cell Astrocytoma in the Absence of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex: A Case Report and Systematic Review.
  • C Carr, M Butler, D Baker, A Bhatia, F Vale, K Nguyen give oral presentation titled: Robot-assisted MR-guided Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy for a Giant Sessile Hypothalamic Hamartoma in an Eight-year-old Boy: Case Report and Comprehensive Review of the Literature. 

Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, October 1

• • C Carr, D Baker, M Pare, F Vale give poster presentation titled: A 24-year-old Male with Numerous and Extensive Compressive Plexiform Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Lesions of the Cervical Spinal Canal. 
  • C Carr, P Reddi, A Post give poster presentation titled: Elective C3-4 ACDF in a Pregnant Patient: Case Report, Comprehensive Review of the Literature, and Considerations for the Spine Surgeon.
  • C Carr, K James, M Pare give poster presentation titled: A Systematic Review of the Role of Wearable Devices and Predictive Analytics in Assessing Functional Outcomes after Lumbar Fusion.
  • C Carr, A Helton, A Lewis, A Abernathy, M Pare give poster presentation titled: A Retrospective Cohort of Eleven African American Patients in a Rural Southern Hospital with Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament in the Cervical Spine.

Our PGY 4 Resident, Christopher Carr, received a promotion to Lieutenant Commander (LCDR, O4) in the Navy

Christopher Carr gives second presentation about Suicide Prevention at Fort Eisenhower Naval Reserve Center Health Promotions Lecture Series.

Christopher Carr gives oral presentation titled: Structural and Functional Organization of the Nervous System at the Medical College of Georgia Neurosurgery Grand Rounds American Board of Neurological Surgery Neuroanatomy Exam Lecture Series.

Molly Braun, PhD featured in Women in Medicine Month (September). The MCG Office for Faculty Success has had the great honor of celebrating one inspiring woman faculty member each day in September on X (formally Twitter) at @AUG_OFS. These faculty individually and collectively have made tremendous contributions benefiting patients, trainees, colleagues, the community, and science--locally, nationally, and internationally. We are proud to call them our peers. In case you missed it, a calendar of our 2024 Honorees is below. Please take a moment to thank them for everything they give.

2nd Annual Marshall B. Allen, MD Symposium. Featuring John A. Wilson, MD, FAANS, FACS, Professor, Neurosurgery. Dr. Wilson research interests.