Description:

The Havey Institute for Global Health Seminar Series is held the first Wednesday of each month, September through July, and features the research and ideas of outstanding global health leaders at Feinberg, the larger Northwestern community, and beyond. 
 
Our speaker for January is: 
Rebecca Reynolds, MD 
Assistant Professor  
Department of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics  
Medical Director, Neurosurgery Clinic 
University of Iowa Healthcare 

Rebecca Reynolds, MD, is an assistant professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics at University of Iowa Healthcare. She completed her neurosurgery residency training at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and pediatric neurosurgery fellowship at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. As a neurosurgery resident, she completed an NIH Fogarty Global Health Fellowship in Lusaka, Zambia and now directs a multidisciplinary research program studying pediatric hydrocephalus and spina bifida throughout Zambia. At the University of Iowa, she currently serves as the medical director of the UI Neurosurgery Clinic and on the Stead Family Children’s Hospital Surgical Executive Committee. She specializes in the clinical care of children with brain and spine concerns, specifically neural tube defects, spasticity, and craniosynostosis.