Mark E. Shaffrey Fund
Fund Purpose: To provide support for spine QOD efforts.
Mark E. Shaffrey, MD, FAANS, was the David Weaver Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Virginia. He won numerous awards for laboratory investigation and clinical medicine, including a traveling fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons, and was named to the Best Doctors in America list.
Dr. Shaffrey graduated magna cum laude from Virginia Tech and received his medical degree from the University of Virginia, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. He completed his general surgical internship at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center and his neurosurgical training at the University of Virginia in 1994. During residency, he completed a clinical neuropathology fellowship and an NIH postdoctoral fellowship in microvascular physiology. He also trained as a skull base surgery fellow in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and served as a neurosurgical registrar in Plymouth, England.
Following his postgraduate training, Dr. Shaffrey served as chief of neurosurgery at Keesler USAF Medical Center, and was decorated with the Meritorious Service Medal. In 1997, he returned to the University of Virginia as an associate professor of neurosurgery and founded the Neuro-Oncology Center. He was appointed chair of the Department of Neurosurgery in 2006.
Dr. Shaffrey’s research interests in neuro-oncology included the molecular mechanisms of cellular invasion and migration. He had over 150 publications and was a funded principal investigator in over 40 grants and clinical trials. He served on the editorial board and as topic editor for the Self-Assessment in Neurological Surgery (SANS). He was also a reviewer for the Journal of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery, Surgical Neurology, and Cancer.
In addition, Dr. Shaffrey played an active role in organized neurosurgery, having served in several roles for the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS).
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