PROVIDENCE – Lifespan and Brown University have recruited Dr. Garth Rees Cosgrove, a neurosurgeon and expert in brain tumors and radiosurgery who is now chair of neurosurgery at The Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass., to lead their neurosurgery programs in Providence.
Cosgrove, who starts June 1, will chair a new neurosurgery department at Brown’s Warren Alpert Medical School and also be chief of neurosurgery at Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital, managing clinical services, educational and research activities.
In addition, Cosgrove will join the Brown Institute for Brain Science, which also involves Lifespan as well as Care New England’s Butler Hospital.
In a news release, Dr. Edward J. Wing, dean of medicine and biological sciences at Brown, said he was “thrilled” to recruit Cosgrove, whose expertise in functional neurosurgery is “a critical tie” to enhancing Brown’s research.
Cosgrove has also worked on surgical treatments of epilepsy, and Wing said his appointment would lead to new collaborations with experts in neuroscience, psychiatry and neurology.
“Leaders like Dr. Cosgrove will help boost our potential to be one of the top destinations in the country for clinical and academic neuroscience,” Wing said.
Dr. Timothy J. Babineau, president and CEO of Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital, said it is “a real testament to our growth” that Lifespan and Brown had been able to recruit someone of Cosgrove’s caliber. His leadership and skills, he added, will help the hospitals expand their neurosurgery programs to meet increased patient needs.
The neurosurgery departments diagnose and treat disorders of the brain, spine, spinal cord and nerves throughout the body, including tumors of the brain, spinal cord and spinal column; herniated disks; Parkinson’s disease; hydrocephalus; epilepsy; chronic pain syndromes; stroke; cerebral palsy; head and spine trauma or injuries, and more.
Cosgrove is affiliated with the Neurosurgery Foundation, and along with his work at The Lahey Clinic, he is a professor of neurosurgery at Tufts University School of Medicine. He was previously an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and attending neurosurgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital.
