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Neil Reginald Berrington
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CURRICULUM VITAE
NEIL REGINALD BERRINGTON
FCS (Neuro) (SA)
Background
Education: Melville Primary School and Parktown Boys High
Johannesburg
Current Office Address: Health Sciences Centre
GB136 – 820 Sherbrook St.
Winnipeg, MB R3A 1R9
Current Employment: Assistant Professor
Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery
University of Manitoba
Tertiary Education
1979 Matriculated Parktown Boys High
1985 Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery
University of the Witwatersrand
1994 Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow
1994 Fellow of the College of Surgeons of South Africa
(Neurosurgery)
1995 Master of Medicine in Neurosurgery
University of Pretoria
2003/4 Spine Surgery Fellowship, University of Manitoba
Additional Qualifications and Awards
1993 Davis and Geck Surgical Scholarship
1994 Advanced Trauma Life Support
1994 Advanced Trauma Life Support Instructor
1994 Best Registrar Presentation – SA Congress of Neurosurgeons
1994 Trauma Association Award
Publications
q Berrington NR, Green RJ, Branfield AS, et al. 1986. Child Abuse and Deprivation. SAMJ 69:759.
q Berrington NR,. 1993. Post Traumatic Spinal Cord Tethering. J. Neurosurgery 78:120
q Berrington NR. 1992. Acute extradural haematoma associated with silastic dural substitute. Surg Neurol 38:469.
q Berrington NR, Willers J, van Staden JF, et al. 1993. Cervical intervertebral disc prolapse associated with traumatic facet dislocations. Surg Neurol 30:395.
q Berrington NR. Traumatic cervical facet dislocation. 1994. Trauma Yearbook.
Conference Presentations
Traumatic facet dislocation (poster) International Neurotrauma Symposium, Glasgow 1993
Traumatic Facet dislocation (podium) Trauma Society Congress , Durban 1993
Traumatic facet dislocation (podium) SA Neurosurgeons Congress , Cape Town 1994
Destruction lesions for pain (podium) Regional Anaesthesia, Johannesburg 1999
Radiofrequency lesions (podium) Canadian Pain Society, Winnipeg 2002
IDET (podium) Canadian Pain Society, Winnipeg 2002
Minimal Access Spine surgery ACS, Manitoba 2003
Cervical laminoplasty (Podium) AO Spine Fellows Meeting, Banff 2004
What’s new in spine surgery?(podium) ACS Manitoba 2004
Second Impact Syndrome (podium) Sports Medicine Council Manitoba, 2005
Minimal access for spine tumours (poster) Canadian Spine Society, Mont St Anne 2005
Cervical laminoplasty (poster) Canadian Spine Society, Mont St Anne 2005
Spinal injections for pain (poster) Canadian Spine Society, Mont St Anne 2005
Minimal access spinal fusion (faculty) MAST course, Toronto 2005
Minimal access spinal fusion (podium) Canadian Conference of Neurosciences, Ottawa
2005
A pathophysiological approach to the Canadian Academy of Physician
Management of TBI (plenary, podium) Assistants,Winipeg, November 2005
Congresses and Courses
1992, 1994, 1996, 1998 SA Neurosurgeons Congress
1993 Trauma Society Congress
1993 International Neurotrauma Symposium
Glasgow
1996 Minimal Invasive Spinal Surgery
St. Louis, Missouri
1996 Midas Rex Certification
St. Louis, Missouri
1998 AO Advanced Spine Course
Johannesburg, SA
1999 Western Cape Imaging (Spine 99)
1999 Neurosurgical Endoscopy
Durban
1999 Neuro-Navigation B Hands On (Brain Lab)
Durban
1999 AO Advanced Spine Course
Nottingham
1999 Annual Regional Anaesthesia Refresher Course, Johannesburg, SA
2000 Intradiscal Electro Therapy
London
2000 Lubbock Pain Institute Visit (caudal neuroplasty, facet
rhizotomy)
2000 AO Advanced Spine Course
Johannesburg, SA
2002 CNS/AANS Combined Spine Meeting
Florida, USA
2002 Canadian Pain Society , Winnipeg, MB
2002 Calgary Hands-on Spine course
2003 Minimal Access Spine Technologies, Memphis, TN
2003 Maverick Training course (prosthetic lumbar disc), Memphis, TN
2003 AANS/CNS Section of Disorders of the Spine meeting, Tampa, FL
2003 American College of Surgeons, Manitoba Chapter
2003 AO Spinal Tumors Symposium, Rochester, MN
2004 Surgical Treatment of Spinal Deformity Course, Beaver Creek, Colorado
2004 Canadian Spine Society Meeting, Sun Peaks, BC
2004 Spine Fellows Meeting, Banff, AB
2004 Spine Course for OR Personnel, Toronto, ON (Faculty)
2004 Novo Nordisk – Niastase Trial Meeting, Copenhagen
2004 Visit to Dr Boriani (Spine Tumors), Milan, Italy
2004 American College of Surgeons, Manitoba Chapter
2004 Sports Medicine Conference , Manitoba
2004 Balloon Kyphoplasty Hands on Course, Calgary, AB
2005 Canadian Spine Society Meeting, Mont St Ann , QC
2005 Minimal Access Spine Surgery, Toronto, ON
2005 Canadian Congress of Neurosciences, Ottawa, ON
Employment Record
1985 Intern, Johannesburg Hospital
Jan 1987 to Feb 1988 Medical Officer, Department of Neurosurgery
Johannesburg Hospital
1988, 1989 Military Service – 1 Military Hospital, Pretoria
Jan to Jun 1990 Medical Officer, Department of Neurosurgery
Johannesburg Hospital
1990 to 1995 Registrar, Department of Neurosurgery
University of Pretoria
Dec 1995 to Oct 2001 Private Practice, Flora Clinic and Wilgeheuwel Hospital
1996 to 1998 Part-time consultant, Johannesburg Hospital
Nov 2001 to July 2003 Assistant Professor, Section of Neurosurgery
Health Sciences Centre
Winnipeg, Manitoba
July 2003 to July 2004 Clinical Fellow, Combined Spine Service
Section of Orthopaedics and Neurosurgery
Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, MB
August 2004 to date Assistant Professor, Section of Neurosurgery
Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, MB
Current Employment
Assistant Professor, University of Manitoba, Dept Surgery, Section of Neurosurgery and Orthopaedics.
Special interests in minimal access spine surgery, spinal trauma and pain intervention techniques.
Additional roles:
q Undergraduate education coordinator for the section of Neurosurgery.
q Coordinator for the joint project of the University of Manitoba and University of Nairobi for the development of Neurosciences in East Africa.
q Coordinator of “Case of the week” seminars for residents.
q Residency program committee member.
q Trauma Steering Committee, HSC, Winnipeg
q Principal author in the development of “Head Injury Management Guidelines” for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba.
q Chairman of author group for “Return to Play After Concussion” guidelines for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba.
q Neurosurgery general call for neurosurgery emergencies.
q Spinal call for Combined Spine Service.
q Member of board of directors for Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS), Manitoba.
q Instructor for ATLS in Manitoba and South Africa.
q Coordinator/ organizer Resident Research Day.
Current Research Projects
q Prospective analysis of minimal access spine surgery – discectomy, laminectomy and fusion
q Prospective analysis of spondylotic myelopathy and laminoplasty outcomes
q Retrospective review of spondylodiscitis
q Prospective analysis of outcomes of interventive pain procedures (rhizotomy, transforaminal injections)
q Collaborator in Winnipeg trial on lumbar disc prolapse (Dr M Johnson)
q Participant in multi-center trial on spinal cord stimulation for angina (STARTSTIM)
q Participant in the Niastase trial for contusional brain injury (F7CBI-1699)
q Co-investigator – trial on minimal access fixation for spinal tumors.
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Neil Berrington 30 November 2005