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EVENT: Neurologists, neurosurgeons and family physicians will have the opportunity to tour the newly designed Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. 

Today, with the transition nearly completed, Jefferson’s comprehensive neuroscience program – housed in the now-refitted former Wills Eye Hospital building – includes leading programs and centers in both the Departments of Neurosurgery and Neurology at Jefferson Medical College and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, and a dizzying array of new technology.

HIGHLIGHTS: Tours of the facility will be available, including opportunities to see:

• The Novalis Shaped Beam Surgery Suite
• Interventional Neuroradiology Suites
• the region’s first Gamma Knife

DATE: Wednesday, November 3, 2004

TIME: 4 to 7 p.m. 

LOCATION: Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience, 900 Walnut Street, Philadelphia

WHO: Robert L. Barchi, M.D., Ph.D., the new president of Thomas Jefferson University, will welcome visiting physicians and guests. Dr. Barchi is an eminent neurologist and neuroscience researcher.

Cerebrovascular surgeon Robert H. Rosenwasser, M.D., professor 
and Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Director of the Division of Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery and Neuroradiology, Jefferson Medical College and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

David Andrews, M.D., professor of neurosurgery at Jefferson 
Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Director, Division of Neuro-oncologic Neurosurgery and Stereotactic Radiosurgery, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, and Director, Radiosurgery Units, Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience

BACKGROUND: JHN was created in November 2000 when Thomas Jefferson University purchased the Wills Eye Hospital building at 9th and Walnut Streets, beginning a transition of its neuroscience program to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Jefferson assumed sole operation of the Jefferson-Wills Neurosurgery Program.