Previous Campagna Scholars

2021 — Jordan Harmer, a medical student from Oregon Health & Science University, is working with Dr. Jesse Liu on a project comparing the neurological outcomes of patients with non-traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage via ruptured aneurysm treated with clipping via either a craniotomy or decompressive craniectomy.

2019 — Brittany Stedelin, a medical student from Oregon Health & Science University, worked with Ahmed Raslan, MD and Justin Cetas, MD, PhD. Her projects were outcomes of surgery for non-lesional medically refractory epilepsy and investigating the link between obesity and meningioma.

2018 — Ashlie  Maldonado, a medical student from Ponce Health Sciences University, Puerto Rico, worked with Seunggu Jude Han, MD on neuro-oncology research.

2017 — Lillian Boettcher, a medical student from The University of Utah School of Medicine, worked with Aclan Dogan, MD on research involving pipeline embolization for intracranial aneurysms and condylar dural arteriovenous fistulas.

2016 — Alexa Semonche, a medical student from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School worked with Justin Cetas, MD, PhD. Her project looked at vasospasm and delayed cerebral ischemia outcomes in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage patients with a past medical history of migraines.

2015 — Ajay Patel, a medical student from Indiana University School of Medicine completed his summer research project working with Lissa Baird, MD. His project looked at symptomatic presentation as a predictor of pathologic diagnosis and tumor size in pediatric brain tumor patients.

2014 — Aaron Chance, a medical student from The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. His summer research project, working with Lissa Baird, MD, involved outcomes data reflecting the utilization of endoscopic third ventriculostomy with choroid plexus cauterization as a viable alternative to traditional shunting in the pediatric hydrocephalus patient population

• Chance A, Liu JJ, Raskin JS, Zherebitskiy V, Gultekin SH, Raslan AM. Thoracic primary central nervous system melanoma and lumbar schwannoma of complex neurocristopathy: case report. J Neurosurg Spine. 2015;23(6):780-3.

2013 — Stephen Lehnert, a medical student from Indiana University School of Medicine. His summer research project, working with Ahmed Raslan, MD, involved a project on spine surgery payer mix data to predict outcome.

2012 — Gustavo Mendez, a medical student at Oregon Health & Science University. His summer research project, working with Brian Ragel, MD, involved a radiographic assessment of the metastatic spine and it surgical implications.

• Mendez G, Ozpinar A, Raskin J, Gultekin SH, Ross DA. Case comparison and literature review of glioblastoma: A tale of two tumors. Surg Neurol Int. 2014 Aug 2;5:121.
• Ragel BT, Mendez GA, Reddington J, et al. Life Expectancy and Metastatic Spine Scoring Systems: An Academic Institutional Experience. Clin Spine Surg. 2016.

2011 — Michael Strong, a medical student at Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans. His summer research project, working with Valerie Anderson, PhD, involved imaging in Alzheimer's patients.

• Selden N, Strong M: Simulation in Neurosurgical Education: Present and Future Considerations. Contemporary Neurosurgery, 2012, 34(18):1-5.

2010 — Susan Wozniak, a medical student at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Lubbock, TX. Ms. Wozniak pursued research in clinical neurosurgery and participated in the activities of the neurological surgery clinical service, specifically epilepsy projects with Drs. Selden and Roberts (Neurology).

• Duty B, Wozniak S, Selden NR: Vagal nerve stimulator placement for medically refractory seizures in a child treated with phrenic nerve pacing for congenital central hypoventilation syndrome: Case report. Journal of Neurological Surgery: Pediatrics 7:413-415, 2011
• Thompson EM, Wozniak SE, Roberts CM, Kao A, Anderson VC, Selden NR: Vagus nerve stimulation for partial and generalized epilepsy from infancy to adolescence. Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics 2012 Sep;10(3):200-5
• Wozniak SE, Thompson EM, Selden NR: Vagal nerve stimulator infection: a lead-salvage protocol. Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics 7:671-675, 2011

2009 — Tristan Stani, a medical student at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. His summer research project, working with Valerie Anderson, PhD, involved examining precision grip (holding an object between thumb and forefinger) performance in essential tremor subjects before and after deep brain stimulation.

• Stani T, Burchiel K, Hart M, Lenar D, Anderson V: Effects of DBS on precision grip abnormalities in essential tremor. Experimental Brain Research 201:331-338, 2010

2008 — David Panczykowski, a medical student at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL. He worked with Drs. Anderson, Barnwell and Delashaw on a project to determine the extent to which the morbidity of developing cerebral vasospasm after an aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage is decreased by treatment with endovascular coiling compared to treatment by neurosurgical clipping.

• Panczykowski D, Nemecek AN, Selden NR: Traumatic Type III odontoid fracture and severe rotatory atlantoaxial subluxation in a 3-year-old child. Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics 5:200-203, 2010
• Panczykowski D, Piedra MP, Cetas JS, Delashaw JB: Optochiasmatic cavernous hemangioma. British Journal of Neurosurgery 24:316-317, 2010

2007 —Christopher Urban, a first-year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania. He worked with Kim Burchiel, MD, on a project relating to trigeminal neuralgia.