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Claire Karekezi (born 4 July 1982) is a Rwandan neurosurgeon at the Rwanda Military Referral and Teaching Hospital in Kigali, Rwanda. [1] As the first female neurosurgeon in Rwanda, and one of the eight Rwandan neurosurgeons serving a population of 14 million, Karekezi serves as an advocate for women in neurosurgery. [2]
It includes neurosurgeons that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Women neurosurgeons" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
Karanja currently serves as a Consultant Neurosurgeon at Kenyatta National Hospital in Kenya. She is a member of neurosurgical and medical societies in Kenya and abroad. She is the current Treasurer of the Kenya Association of Women Surgeons (KAWS). [3] [6] She also teaches as an adjunct lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, University of ...
Sylvia Shitsama Nyamweya (née Sylvia Shitsama), is a Kenyan consultant neurosurgeon at the Kenyatta National Referral Hospital. [1] She is the first female neurosurgeon in Kenya [2] and one of a handful of female neurosurgeons in the country. [3]
Nancy Abu-Bonsrah is a Ghanaian neurosurgeon who was the first black female to graduate [1] from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine's neurosurgery program, the school "where the medical discipline of neurological surgery was founded." [2] She was accepted to train at Johns Hopkins in 2017 [3] and graduated in 2024.
She is the author of dozens of papers, invited lectures and courses in these topics, including a co-authored white paper with Women in Neurosurgery titled "The Future of Neurosurgery." [3] Rosseau is one of 300 female neurosurgeons in the United States, out of a total of more than 3,000 practicing neurosurgeons. [4]
She then spent a year specialising in paediatric neurosurgery at The Hospital for Sick Children, the teaching hospital of the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, in Toronto, Canada. [3] One of her Ugandan mentors was the late John Baptist Mukasa (1967 - 2021).
T. S. Kanaka (1932–2018), Asia's first female neurosurgeon Sandhya Koushika (fl. from 2000s), neuroscientist focusing on regulation of axonal transport within nerve cells Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath (born 1953), neuroscientist focused on the study of brain related disorders