Neurocritical Care Fellowship Overview

Neurocritical care is an exciting specialty, and the demand for specialists in our field is growing rapidly. Our fellowship program reflects our group’s enthusiasm for our specialty. Neurocritical care bridges the fields of neurology, neurosurgery, neuroradiology, trauma, neuroanesthesiology, and critical care medicine, and our fellowship provides wide exposure to these disciplines. One unique aspect of our program is the strong collegiality across all of these specialties within our medical center, and each of our neurocritical care faculty are within the Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery. Furthermore, our program has and continues to expand with the addition of neurotrauma in May 2018 with the opening of the level 1 trauma center, and with the addition of our neurology Chairman, Shyam Prabhakaran, MD and the formation of a dedicated of Stroke Service.

In addition to the outstanding clinical experience our fellowship provides, each fellow will participate in research and quality improvement activities (visit our Research page). Special efforts will be made to guide the fellow in designing and organizing his/her own projects that can be realistically accomplished during their fellowship. Scholarly productivity through publications and presentations will be encouraged and fostered. At the completion of the fellowship experience, University of Chicago Medical Center trained Neurocritical Care fellows are uniquely skilled clinically, have a track record of scholarly accomplishments, and are ready to either build their own program or make a valuable contribute to an established program.