Aruna Ganju, MD, FAANS
Aruna Ganju, MD, FAANS, is an associate professor of neurological surgery at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago and the current editor of AANS Neurosurgeon. She is a past chair of the AANS/CNS Section of Women in Neurosurgery (WINS) and Residency Program Director in the Department of Neurological Surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Her clinical areas of interest are surgical treatment of disorders of the spinal column and cord.
The decades-old issue and debate in regards to neurosurgical subspecialization is paradoxical: the specialty arose as an offspring of the field of general surgery. As such, William S. Halsted’s disciple, Harvey Cushing, with a general surgery background, pursued the surgical treatment of diseases of the nervous system. As is well known, Halsted was one of the first national proponents...
The decades-old issue and debate in regards to neurosurgical subspecialization is paradoxical: the specialty arose as an offspring of the field of general surgery. As such, William S. Halsted’s disciple, Harvey Cushing, with a general surgery background, pursued the surgical treatment of diseases of the nervous system. As is well known, Halsted was one of the first national proponents...
