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    Eric Zager, MD, FAANS

    Professor of Neurosurgery
    Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

    Dr. Eric L. Zager is Professor of Neurosurgery at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He graduated magna cum laude in Biochemistry from Harvard College and received his MD degree at Stanford University. He completed internship in general surgery at Columbia University in New York, followed by his neurosurgical residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He won the Galbraith Award in Cerebrovascular Surgery in 1988, and the Young Clinician Investigator Award from the American Association of Neurological Surgeons in 1991. He received a Clinical Fellowship Award from the Congress of Neurological Surgeons to pursue additional training in peripheral nerve surgery at the University of Toronto and at Louisiana State University in New Orleans. He has been on the faculty at Penn since 1989, and focuses his academic interests on peripheral nerve and cerebrovascular disorders. Currently he holds the Endowed Chair: Professorship in Neurosurgical Academic Excellence. He lives with his wife and 3 children in Philadelphia.

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