Traveling Fellowships

The Pediatric Section currently offers two types of traveling fellowships: the International Traveling Fellowship, and the Traveling Fellowship for Residents.

The International Traveling Fellowship is available for neurosurgeons who at the time of their application are either training in a residency program outside the United States and Canada, or who have completed residency training outside the United States and Canada within the past five years.

This fellowship will help to cover the traveling and living expenses for a three-month period to be spent observing the activities of an established pediatric neurosurgical service of the applicant's choosing in the United States or Canada. The maximum fellowship stipend is $5,000. The strict deadline for application submission is Nov. 15, 2010.

The Traveling Fellowship for Residents is available for residents currently in an accredited North American neurosurgical training programs. The fellowship is intended to help cover one month of traveling and living expenses for a trainee who wishes additional experience in pediatric neurosurgery during residency. The one-month fellowship can be spent at any pediatric neurosurgery program within North America to pursue an activity which broadens the resident's exposure to pediatric neurosurgery, including observation at a clinical or research center, participation in a research project, or any other relevant activity. The maximum fellowship stipend is $2,500. The strict deadline for application submission is Oct. 30, 2010.

Typically, two international fellowships and two domestic fellowships are awarded annually on the basis of a competitive evaluation by a committee of the Pediatric Section. Awardees are selected during the annual meeting in December.

For further information on either of these fellowships please contact:
Bermans J. Iskandar, M.D.
Department of Neurological Surgery
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
600 Highland Avenue, Room K4/832 CSC
Madison, WI 53792

At the Boston meeting, the Pediatric Section Executive Council awarded three international fellowships (and no domestic resident fellowships):

1. Manish K. Kasliwal (chief resident, All Institutes of Medical Science, New Delhi, India); Children’s Hospital, Boston (R. Michael Scott, MD, sponsor)
   
2. Tania Leyva Mastrepa (department of neurosurgery, Juan Manuel Marquez Pediatric Hospital, Havana, Cuba); British Columbia Children’s Hospital (Paul Steinbok, MD, sponsor)
   
3. George Chater Cure (resident, Fundacion Santa Fe, Bogota, Columbia, South America); Weill Cornell Medical College (Mark Souweidane, MD, sponsor)