Trauma research scientist
Ascension St John Medical Center, US
Vsevolod Shurkhay, MD, research scientist at The Trauma and Neuroscience Institutes, St. John’s Hospital and Medical Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
Dr. Shurkhay was born and raised in Moscow, Russia and obtained his medical degree at Moscow Medical Academy in 2007. His neurosurgical residency was at Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute in Moscow (2007-2012). His area of interests include traumatic brain injury with focus on surgical treatment of its sequelae such as skull defects and hydrocephalus; surgical treatment of primary malignant brain tumors with usage of multimodal neuronavigation (frameless and methabolic (5-ALA and mass-spectrometry) and robotic guidance.