EVERETT – A new fellowship program for neurosurgeons has been launched at Providence Everett Medical Center, the result of an agreement with Seattle’s Swedish Medical Center.
The postgraduate program is for fully trained neurosurgeons, said Dr. Larry Schecter, Providence Everett’s chief medical officer. It’s the first such post-graduate fellowship program at the Everett hospital.
“The goal was to have fellows get added training here at Providence Everett,” Schecter said.
Dr. Sanford Wright, a longtime Everett neurosurgeon, will supervise the program.
Dr. John Brisman, a graduate of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, is the first to hold the new fellowship post. He is formally part of the Everett hospital’s medical staff.
“We signed a training agreement so our specialty fellows can go to Everett and achieve part of their training with Dr. Wright and other neurosurgeons,” said Dr. Marc Mayberg, executive director of Swedish’s Seattle Neuroscience Institute.
The Everett hospital has received requests for other such fellowship programs, Schecter said. “This is kind of the future of large (health care) organizations,” he said.
The fellowship is one of several projects Providence Health System, the Everett hospital’s parent organization, and Swedish are collaborating on, said Greg Van Pelt, Providence Health System senior vice president.
The fellowship program at the Everett hospital follows the opening last fall of Swedish’s $30 million neuroscience institute in downtown Seattle.
Relationships between Swedish and Providence Health System date back at least five years. In March 2000, Swedish Medical Center announced it was taking over Providence Seattle Medical Center, formerly part of the same organization that owns the Everett hospital.
That campus is now the hub of the new neuroscience institute.
The fellowship program is the latest example of Providence Everett’s work with area health care organizations over the past few years. Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle operates a pediatric specialty outpatient clinic at Providence’s Pavilion for Women and Children on Pacific Avenue in Everett.
Swedish doctors who are getting specialized training as residents in family practice rotate through the Everett hospital’s emergency room, Schecter said.
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