OUR MISSION
Brain and Spine Group, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established to improve brain and spine health. After all, your brain and spine are the parts of you that make you - YOU!
Our mission is to provide hands-on and web-based neurosurgical education to medical students around the world without economic, institutional, or geographic barriers.
Our mission is to provide hands-on and web-based neurosurgical education to medical students around the world without economic, institutional, or geographic barriers.
OUR STORY
Brain and Spine Group (BSG) was founded in 2019 by Weill Cornell graduate Ryan Radwanski, MD. Its initial focus was set on improving education of future brain and spine physicians. The Medical Student Neurosurgery Training Center (MSNTC) was founded in 2020 to streamline and operationalize the delivery of on-site and virtual content for brain and spine education after two successful years of Medical Student Neurosurgery Training Camps, the first of which was offered at Weill Cornell Medical College in 2018.
As students and trainees around the globe increasingly consume and interact with their medical education in a virtual format, industry and academic entities will need to adjust and innovate their offerings to meet this need. In its first three years, the MSNTC, operating as BSG's education branch, has coordinated dozens of live virtual webinars, journal clubs, and training camps, as well as increased its educational resource footprint through the Brain and Spine Report, YouTube video library, global events calendar, and other mediums. As a result, Brain and Spine Group is at the forefront of neurosurgery education innovation and aims to be the international leader in junior neurosurgery clinical training.
In 2023, though the MSNTC name is no longer in use, it's successes serve as the foundation for Brain and Spine Group's education branch, which continues to provide live virtual webinars focused on both clinical and professional development content, and is currently expanding its educational efforts to include self-paced courses. In addition to education, Brain and Spine Group has continued to further its impact through research and public engagement, notably adding NERVE (Neurosurgery Education and Research Virtual Experience Group) to our research branch shortly after it was founded by students at Kansas City University & Campbell University. NERVE recently accepted it's fourth cohort of 40+ students from institutions all over the United States with the support of Faculty Director of NERVE Randy D'Amico. Our research branch also supports a research group supervised by Faculty Director of Education Susan Pannullo and CEO Ryan Radwanski as well as an annual Early Career Neuroscience Virtual Research Symposium to provide an accessible platform for students to share their research.
As students and trainees around the globe increasingly consume and interact with their medical education in a virtual format, industry and academic entities will need to adjust and innovate their offerings to meet this need. In its first three years, the MSNTC, operating as BSG's education branch, has coordinated dozens of live virtual webinars, journal clubs, and training camps, as well as increased its educational resource footprint through the Brain and Spine Report, YouTube video library, global events calendar, and other mediums. As a result, Brain and Spine Group is at the forefront of neurosurgery education innovation and aims to be the international leader in junior neurosurgery clinical training.
In 2023, though the MSNTC name is no longer in use, it's successes serve as the foundation for Brain and Spine Group's education branch, which continues to provide live virtual webinars focused on both clinical and professional development content, and is currently expanding its educational efforts to include self-paced courses. In addition to education, Brain and Spine Group has continued to further its impact through research and public engagement, notably adding NERVE (Neurosurgery Education and Research Virtual Experience Group) to our research branch shortly after it was founded by students at Kansas City University & Campbell University. NERVE recently accepted it's fourth cohort of 40+ students from institutions all over the United States with the support of Faculty Director of NERVE Randy D'Amico. Our research branch also supports a research group supervised by Faculty Director of Education Susan Pannullo and CEO Ryan Radwanski as well as an annual Early Career Neuroscience Virtual Research Symposium to provide an accessible platform for students to share their research.