Gavin W Britz
Professor and Chairman
Dept. of Neurosurgery at The Methodist Hospital System
USA
Biography
Dr. Gavin Britz earned his MBBCh at the University of the Witwatersrand School of Medicine, South Africa in 1987. He completed a surgical internship in general surgery and fellowship in general surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore in 1993 and in 2002 he completed his residency in neurosurgery. During his residency he attended St. Georges Medical School, The University of London, UK and served as a Neurosurgical Registrar and Senior Registrar. After residency, he took a cerebrovascular fellowship in 2002 and an Interventional Neuroradiology Fellowship in 2003 at the University of Washington Medical School, Seattle. In 2003 he earned his MPH at the University of Washington, Seattle. He also obtained an MBA from George Washington University in 2015. He held faculty appointments at the University of Washington and Duke University before becoming a member of Houston Methodist Research Institute in 2014.
Research Interest
Brain aneurysm, cerebral microcirculation, acute brain injury & evaluating new and novel tools to treat a wide variety of problems such as brain aneurysms and skull base tumors