Lunsford, Former Patient Featured on WPXI

Pittsburgh, August 5, 2016 -- In 2004, Michael Fazzini was a high school student at Lower Burrell High School, running track and playing soccer, when he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He was successfully treated by L. Dade Lunsford, MD, with the Gamma Knife. Twelve years later, he is in his first rotation as a medical student studying under Dr. Lunsford. See the inspiring story in a WPXI-TV Proud To Be from Pittsburgh feature segment.

Lunsford with former patient Michael Fazzini

[See also Lifesaving Neurosurgeon Inspires Career in Medicine from the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, and Treated for a Brain Tumor at 16, VCOM Student Rotates with his Former Neurosurgeon from The DO on the American Osteopathic Association website.]