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Van Wagenen Fellowship

Marc R. Mayberg
1985
Queens Square
London, England
Professor Lindsay Symon

"The Van Wagenen Fellowship provided a critical experience at a formative part of my academic career. The basic research that I performed in Professor Symon's laboratory relating to hemodynamics of brain stem ischemia and ionic cellular flux during ischemia were essential parts of my training in basic science and have been instrumental in my subsequent research. More importantly, however, was the opportunity to spend an interval in a unique and stimulating environment related to both basic research and clinical activities. Due to the pressures of busy clinical practices and research funding applications, very few neurosurgeons manage to take a true extended sabbatical during their academic career. The Van Wagenen Fellowship provided the unique opportunity to think and learn in a setting outside of the U.S. health care system. The Fellowship opened many doors to neurosurgical centers throughout the European continent, and provided an opportunity to learn firsthand the diversity of thinking and breadth of experience in the field of neurosurgery."