Spinal Cord Injury Medicine Fellowship

The Spinal Cord Injury Medicine Fellowship is a 12-month program that focuses on specialized training on the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of traumatic spinal cord injury and nontraumatic myelopathies.

The clinical, educational and research activities will involve the resources available through the Acute Spine Injury Program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) the Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Program at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, other departments and programs at NMH and the AbilityLab and Northwestern University Medical School.

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Prerequisites:

The program is open to those who have completed an approved residency program in a specialty relevant to the field, such as physical medicine and rehabilitation, anesthesiology, emergency medicine, family practice, internal medicine, neurological surgery, neurology, orthopedic surgery, pediatrics, plastic surgery, surgery or urology.

Successful completion of the fellowship program satisfies the eligibility requirement to take the Examination in Spinal Cord Injury Medicine to obtain Subspecialty Certification in Spinal Cord Injury Medicine.

How To Apply:

Applicants should submit a completed application, letter of interest, CV and three professional references to the fellowship program director. The application deadline is August 15th.

Contact Information:

Ki H. Kim, MD

Program Director

[email protected]

312-238-1106

Allison Kessler, MD

Associate Director

[email protected]

312-238-1000

Rita Bailey

Fellowship Coordinator

If you have questions or comments, please contact Rita Bailey at [email protected] or 312-238-2870.