Letter to the Editor. Overcoming obstacles and breaking barriers for women in neurosurgery

Chidinma M. Wilson BA, BS1, Evalyn S. Mackenzie BA1, Mikhal A. Yudien BA1, Antoinette J. Charles BS2, Marianne I. J. Tissot BA3, Sydney J. Churchill BS3, Nolan J. Brown BS4, Jared M. Shulkin AB5, Donald K. E. Detchou BA6,7, Vamsi P. Reddy MD8, and Lola B. Chambless MD9
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  • 1 Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
  • | 2 Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
  • | 3 Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
  • | 4 University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA
  • | 5 Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
  • | 6 Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
  • | 7 Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
  • | 8 UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX and
  • | 9 Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Online Publication Date:
15 Oct 2021
Page Range:
935–936
Volume/Issue:
Volume 136: Issue 3
DOI link:
https://doi.org/10.3171/2021.5.JNS211269
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Volume 136: Issue 3 (Mar 2022)

in Journal of Neurosurgery

Illustration from Hanna (pp 927–930). Copyright Barbara A. Hanna. Published with permission.

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Contributor Notes

Correspondence Donald K. E. Detchou: donald.detchou@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.

INCLUDE WHEN CITING Published online October 15, 2021; DOI: 10.3171/2021.5.JNS211269.

Disclosures The authors report no conflict of interest.

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