#43 Vanessa Milanese - Bridging Anatomy and Neurosurgery: A Deep Dive into White Matter Dissections and Legacy of Dr. Al Rhoton

<p>In this conversation with Dr. Vanessa Milanese, we cover the importance of anatomy in neurosurgery and explore her intriguing work in both fields – and how they cross-informed one another. Vanessa is a functional neurosurgeon at A Beneficencia Portuguesa Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil and holds an adjunct assistant professorship of neurosurgery at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. We talk about her stellar work in combining her neurosurgical activity with anatomical work – which involves dissections of the white matter of postmortem brains using the Klingler’s method. We will talk about the rare community of neurosurgeons involved in similar activities, world-wide and the big influence Dr. Al Rhoton had on the field and on Vanessa’s career. We thoroughly enjoyed this conversation and learned a lot – and we hope you will enjoy it as much as we did! Thank you so much for tuning in!</p> <p><br></p> <p>References we talked about in the episode:</p> <p><br></p> <ul> <li><p>Holanda, Vanessa M., Michael S. Okun, Erik H. Middlebrooks, Abuzer Gungor, Margaret E. Barry, John Forder, and Kelly D. Foote. 2020. “Postmortem Dissections of Common Targets for Lesion and Deep Brain Stimulation Surgeries.” <em>Neurosurgery</em> 86 (6): 860–72. </p> </li> </ul> <p><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__journals.lww.com_neurosurgery_abstract_2020_06000_postmortem-5Fdissections-5Fof-5Fcommon-5Ftargets-5Ffor.14.aspx&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=5dKX7gdwVf3mE1gf7LWdV1zlx2b6AlWzh4qwHhqoGT0&m=jEJwx86czRl_7MAN6MiHiPcFRTiF5vzAMDVPLwBiaVwv9kt27EQiBsP_zB4mmAPy&s=l3U1Ue1Lxlx6kmghZqqEFx2WP48F0zmQ3tphffFHFP0&e=">https://journals.lww.com/neurosurgery/abstract/2020/06000/postmortem_dissections_of_common_targets_for.14.aspx</a></p> <p><br></p> <ul> <li><p>Holanda, Vanessa Milanesi, Maria Cristina Chavantes, Xingjia Wu, and Juanita J. Anders. 2017. “The Mechanistic Basis for Photobiomodulation Therapy of Neuropathic Pain by near Infrared Laser Light.” Lasers in Surgery and Medicine 49 (5): 516–24. </p> </li> </