Pittsburgh, May 8, 2025 -- Zoher Ghogawala, MD, FACS, professor and chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Lahey Hospital Medical Center and UMass Chan Medical School, presented a talk on "Optimizing Neurosurgery: How Do We Evaluate Cost?" as the special guest speaker for the 2025 Peter J. Jannetta Lecture, held May 7 at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery.
Dr. Ghogawala also presented a second talk "Strength in Numbers: How Does Neurosurgery Get Stronger by Leveraging Crowd Wisdom" at a special evening reception and dinner held in his honor at the Pittsburgh Golf Club.
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.