Kondziolka Lectures on Navigating Neurosurgery

Pittsburgh, April 6, 2023 -- Douglas Kondziolka, MD, Gray Family Professor of Neurosurgery and vice chair of research and director of the Center for Advanced Radiosurgery at New York University's Langone Medical Center, presented a talk on "Navigating Organized Neurosurgery" as the special guest speaker for the 2023 Peter J. Jannetta Lecture, held April 5 at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery.

Dr. Kondziolka—editor-in-chief of Neurosurgery, the official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons—also presented a second talk, "Publish or Perish?" at a special evening reception and dinner held in his honor at the Duquesne Club in Pittsburgh.

Douglas Kondziolka with Diana Jannetta and Robert Fredlander.

The Peter J. Jannetta Lectureship is held annually in honor of the innovative former chair of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurosurgery who passed away in April of 2016. Dr. Jannetta served as chair of the department for 25 years beginning in 1971. He was internationally acclaimed for his development of microvascular decompression (MVD), an innovative procedure that moved blood vessels away from the trigeminal nerve, alleviating chronic pain and spasms in facial muscles. The procedure became commonly known as the ‘Jannetta Procedure’ and brought relief to thousands.