Neurosurgery Grand Rounds at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai serve as a cornerstone of our department’s educational mission, offering weekly lectures and case-based discussions led by leading neurosurgeons, researchers, and trainees. These sessions provide a platform for the exchange of cutting-edge clinical knowledge, surgical techniques, and translational research, while fostering critical thinking and multidisciplinary collaboration. Grand Rounds are open to faculty, residents, medical students, and affiliated health care professionals.

Guest Lecturer: Randy Bell, MD
Title: 2nd Edition BTF Guidelines for the Management of Penetrating Traumatic Brain Injury: Case-Based Application

Dr. Randy Bell is a Professor of Surgery at the University of South Dakota and the Medical Director of the Comprehensive Stroke Program at Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center in Sioux Falls, SD.

Dr. Bell graduated from the University of Arizona College of Medicine and completed residency at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD, followed by a cerebrovascular and endovascular fellowship at the Washington Hospital Center. He served as a Navy neurosurgeon, was stationed in Okinawa, Japan, and deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan as the sole neurosurgeon for southern Afghanistan. He later served as Chair of Neurosurgery at Walter Reed and the Uniformed Services University.

Dr. Bell has published extensively on traumatic brain injury, particularly penetrating brain and cerebrovascular injuries, and has received numerous awards, including the CNS Galbraith Award and the AANS Young Neurosurgeons Public Service Citation. Dr. Bell is also the co-lead and first author of the Brain Trauma Foundation’s 2nd Edition Guidelines for the Management of Penetrating Traumatic Brain Injury.

Interested in attending via Zoom? Contact Maggie Hanley at Maggie.Hanley@mountsinai.org.