We are happy to share information about a new book on spinal surgery published by neurosurgeon Dr. Sunil Manjila.
Dr. Manjila has co-edited "Lumbar Interbody Fusion (Elsivier UK, an exclusive text book on lumbar interbody fusions, explaining the nuances In techniques of both open and minimally invasive spinal procedures.
Dr. Sunil Manjila is a clinical neurosurgeon, published researcher and a physician entrepreneur with dual residency training in neurosurgery at CMC, Vellore and CWRU,Cleveland. He also completed an enfolded fellowship in neuroradiology and has over 100 Pubmed -indexed academic publications. Dr. Manjila was the former Chief of neurosurgery and Chairman of Neurosciences at McLaren Bay Region in Michigan. Dr. Manjila also is the cofounder of MASIT, Manjila and Singh InnoTech Pvt. Ltd ( India) and Taurean Surgical Inc (USA) specialized in surgical robotics. Dr. Manjila also serves on the advisory board of many companies and organizations.
When people ask what it is like to be a woman in interventional electrophysiology, I tell them the truth: for most of my career, I was the only one at the table. Not the only woman in the EP lab; nurses, techs, and coordinators have always been the backbone of every EP lab I have worked in, but the only woman standing in lead, with the catheters in her hands. That has changed. It has not changed enough. Cardiology remains one of the least gender-balanced fields in medicine, and the procedural subspecialties EP, interventional, structural are the narrowest part of that funnel. We are not short on talented women entering medical school. We lose them somewhere between the classroom and the lab. I have thought a lot about where that loss happens, and I no longer believe it is mostly about ability or even about ambition. It is about permission, the quiet, cumulative sense of whether a room expects you to be in it. The room does not hand you authority ... Early on, I learned that bei...
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