In conversation with student and trainee champion: Soham Bandyopadhyay

April 19, 2024

Read our interview with Dr Bandyopadhyay, student and trainee champion for InterSurgeon and neurosurgical trainee in the UK. As an InterSurgeon champion, Dr Bandyopadhyay has an insight into how useful InterSurgeon can be to facilitate global surgical partnerships: “It should be more than just a tool to connect people but also a tool to advertise opportunities and get resources and tools to those who need it. I think as it grows it'll become the resource to use for people across the world. I think it's still at a stage where potentially we're trying to figure out how best to advertise the resources and how best to get those resources to those people without it feeling a bit like you're donating broken equipment or equipment that's out of date.”

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Organisation Spotlight: FIENS

April 12, 2024

This month, we are highlighting one of our organisation members; FIENS (Foundation for International Education in Neurological Surgery). They have been using InterSurgeon to promote webinars and their own fellowships and scholarships. 

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In conversation with ENT Champion, Professor Antony Narula

April 4, 2024

This month, InterSurgeon had the pleasure of speaking with Professor Antony Narula who is our ENT champion. Professor Narula has been a consultant and head of department at St Mary's Hospital Paddington, Charing Cross Hospital and Hammersmith Hospital and Leicester Royal Infirmary. He was also an Honorary Consultant at Chelsea & Westminster and Royal Brompton Hospitals. He was Chief of Service for Neurosciences/ Head & Neck until 2015 at Imperial College Healthcare Trust. Until 2017, Professor Narula was also honorary professor at Middlesex University.

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Sanjiv Bhatia Global Pediatric Neurological surgery fellowship: A follow up

March 22, 2024

This month the InterSurgeon team spoke with Dr. Oritsejolomi Adetola Roberts, who contacted InterSurgeon to advertise an award opportunity last August. This posting was a call for faculty mentors and North American trainees to apply for the newly created Sanjiv Bhatia Global Pediatric Neurological surgery fellowship, sponsored by the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Pediatric Neurosurgery and the NREF Sanjiv Bhatia Honor Your Mentor Fund.

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