Thirty-four teams of neurosurgeons from top medical institutions around the country competed on June 11th in New York City’s Central Park as part of the 13th Annual Neurosurgery Charity Softball Tournament. The event was hosted by Columbia University and benefited brain tumor research to the Andrew T. Parsa Honor Your Neurosurgical Mentor Fund via the Neurosurgery Research & Education Foundation (NREF), the philanthropic arm of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS).
This year’s competing Departments of Neurosurgery included: Albert Einstein, Barrow Neurological Institute, Case Western, Columbia, Duke, Emory, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, LSU, Mayo Clinic, Mount Sinai, NYU, Thomas Jefferson, Penn State, George Washington, Ohio State, Alabama, University of Buffalo, Tennessee, University of Texas-Houston, Utah, Florida, Miami, Michigan, Penn, Pittsburgh, Puerto Rico, USF, Toronto, UVA, Vanderbilt, Cornell/Memorial Sloan-Kettering and Yale.
The University of Miami claimed their second championship in five years by beating Emory in the finals.
Sponsorship was strong again this year, with $100,000 raised to support neurooncology research fellowships. “The event was a success again this year, securing much-needed support for brain tumor research,” according to tournament founder and co-director Ricardo Komotar, MD, FAANS, of the University of Miami.
For more information about the tournament, visit www.NeuroCharitySoftball.org, or contact Ricardo Komotar, MD, FAANS ([email protected]) or Jeffrey Bruce, MD, FAANS, FACS ([email protected]).
To make a donation in support of brain tumor research, please visit www.NREF.org/donate.
