Investing in great minds and great medical science“Neurosurgery deals with the soul of an individual. The organ we deal with encompasses all we consider a person to be. It’s their vision, their speech, their ability to think, to hear, to touch, to taste, to feel and to express themselves. It’s what makes you all the things you are as a person.” Karin Muraszko, M.D. |
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Patients who come to the pediatric neurosurgery clinics at the U-M Health System need more than a good neurosurgeon. It takes a team of specialists to treat children with brain tumors and complex neurological problems like spina bifida, epilepsy and malformations of the skull and spinal cord. Karin Muraszko is a nationally known pediatric neurosurgeon, but she says she is just one of many U-M experts who work together to determine the best treatment plan for each patient. This multi-disciplinary approach is available nowhere else in Michigan, and at only a few other medical centers in the nation. In addition to caring for her young patients, Muraszko helps train the next generation of neurosurgeons to operate on the brain and spinal cord — an unforgiving area where even a one-millimeter mistake can have devastating consequences.