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Karin Muraszko
Born
Karin Marie Muraszko

(1955-06-19) June 19, 1955 (age 68)
Jersey City, New Jersey
CitizenshipAmerican
EducationYale University
OccupationNeurosurgeon
SpouseScott Van Sweringen
Children2
Medical career
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan

Karin Marie Muraszko is an American pediatric neurosurgeon.[1]

As of 2012, she was the Julian T. Hoff Professor and chair of the department of neurosurgery at the University of Michigan.[1]

She is the first woman to head a neurosurgery department at any medical school in the US.[2] She specializes in brain and spinal cord abnormalities.[3] She was a 2020 electee to the National Academy of Medicine in pediatric neurosurgery.[4]

Early life and education

She was born June 19,

Babies Hospital in New York, the same hospital where she would later also spend her residency.[4]

She graduated with a

Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center where the chairman of the neurological surgery department described her as "...the most outstanding person I've met in medicine" and further "...her intelligence, tenacity and motivation have enabled her to make a remarkable contribution to the care of our patients".[6] She was the first woman admitted, in 1981, into the neurosurgery residency at Columbia's New York Neurological Institute.[4] She completed her residency in 1988.[8]

Career

From 1988 to 1990 Muraszko worked as a Senior Staff Fellow at the National Institutes of Health-NINDS. She moved to the University of Michigan in 1990 where she headed the pediatric neurosurgery service from 1995.[9] She became a professor in 2003.[4] During her time teaching, among her neurosurgical students was Sanjay Gupta.[10] In 2005 she became chair of the Department of Neurosurgery,[9] in the proces becoming the first woman to chair a neurosurgery department in the United States.[2][4]

She is the medical director of "Project Shunt", the neurosurgery component of an annual medical mission by the Michigan, Ohio, chapter of the medical charity "Healing the Children" to Guatemala, which has one of the highest incidences of spina bifida in the world.[11] She began leading the mission at the University of Michigan in 1998, leading a team of surgeons, residents and nurses in Guatemala City.[4]

Research

Muraszko is a specialist in pediatric neurosurgery. Her main interests are treating brain tumors, Chiari malformations, congenital spinal and brain abnormalities and complex craniofacial anomalies.[12]

Society positions

Muraszko is the first woman to serve as director of the American Board of Neurological Surgery, and still was the only one as of 2010.[13][9]

Muraszko serves on the Physician's Advisory Committee of the Spina Bifida Association of America and the March of Dimes.[9]

Muraszko was elected as the first woman to be president of the

Society of Neurological Surgeons during the SNS Centennial celebration year. She is a founding member of Women in Neurosurgery.[citation needed] She was a 2020 electee to the National Academy of Medicine in pediatric neurosurgery.[4]

Awards and honors

Personal life

She is married to Scott Van Sweringen, an architect; they have twin children.[8][7] She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.[10]

Selected articles

References

  1. ^ a b "Medical Development". Medicineatmichigan.org. Archived from the original on 2012-06-03. Retrieved 2012-06-18.
  2. ^ a b "Department of Neurosurgery | University of Michigan Health System". Med.umich.edu. Archived from the original on 2012-08-24. Retrieved 2013-02-15.
  3. ^ a b "IF Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus / Hydrocefalie — IF Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus / Hydrocefalie". Ifglobal.org. 2005-06-27. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-02-15.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Mijangos, Julia Hickey (2021-05-17). "Alumni Profile: Karin Muraszko'81". Columbia Medicine Magazine. Retrieved 2022-11-02.
  5. ^ a b c Karin M. Muraszko, MD, FAANS, The Society of Neurological Surgeons, 2023
  6. ^ a b c d Johnson, Sharon (1983-07-18). "Disabled In Professions Grow". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-10-08.
  7. ^ a b c Steinberg, Stephanie (September 9, 2011). "Paving the Way: Dr. Karin Muraszko reshapes the medical field as the first (and only) female chair of neurosurgery". The Michigan Daily. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  8. ^ a b "The Society of Neurological Surgeons". Societyns.org. Archived from the original on 2014-02-27. Retrieved 2012-06-18.
  9. ^ a b c d e f "Honor Your Neurosurgical Mentor". Neurosurgery Research & Education Foundation. 1955-06-19. Archived from the original on 2017-10-09. Retrieved 2017-10-08.
  10. ^ a b "Doctor with spina bifida defies expectations". CNN. 2016-04-27. Retrieved 2022-11-02.
  11. ^ "Healing The Children". Htcmichiganohio.org. Retrieved 2012-06-18.
  12. ^ Redefining Mentorship: A Natural-Born Neurosurgical Leader (PDF). AANS "Redefining the Specialty" 2012 Annual Report (Report). American Association of Neurological Surgery. 2012. p. 20. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-03-13. Retrieved 2017-10-08.
  13. ^ "Strides Made in Recruiting Women to Neurosurgery – More than 20 Percent of Neurosurgical Residents Now Female". Newswise.com. 2010-10-16. Retrieved 2012-06-18.
  14. ^ "Foundation: Awards — Association of Women Surgeons". Womensurgeons.org. Archived from the original on 2012-07-22. Retrieved 2012-06-18.
  15. ^ "Faculty News and Notes" (PDF). Neurosurgery - News and Notes. No. 12. University of Michigan Health System. 2014. p. 10.

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