Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is a noninvasive treatment that delivers highly focused radiation with submillimeter precision to target abnormal brain tissue while minimizing exposure to surrounding healthy structures. Using advanced imaging and computer-assisted treatment planning, SRS achieves results comparable to surgical resection without an incision. It is commonly used to treat brain tumors, vascular malformations, and select functional disorders, including movement disorders, chronic pain syndromes, and epilepsy. Because the procedure typically does not require general anesthesia, most patients are treated on an outpatient basis with minimal recovery time.

Rather than producing immediate results, SRS works by inducing gradual cellular changes that halt abnormal tissue growth or activity, with therapeutic effects developing over weeks to months. Treatment planning and delivery are performed by a multidisciplinary team of neurosurgeons, radiation oncologists, and medical physicists, ensuring each patient receives a personalized treatment plan designed to maximize effectiveness and safety.

The Neuroscience Institut is a secondary site for fellowship training. It has active outpatient care, educational activities, and multi-disciplinary clinics including a multidisciplinary Movement Disorders Neuromodulation Clinic with integrated case-conferences. The neuromodulation clinic includes initial and follow-up neurostimulator programing, and fellow attendance is expected for one afternoon each week (Thursday). In addition, the University of South Florida is home to the Center for Aging and Brain Repair (CABR), a research institute focused on basic and transitional research addressing degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, ALS, and Parkinson’s Disease and more acute conditions including spinal cord injury and stroke. This facility is available for fellows’ seeking exposure to basic science research.

Tampa General Hospital is the primary training site for this fellowship. TGH is a Level 1 trauma center serving a metropolitan statistical area of some 3 million people. This venue has inpatient services, outpatient services, dedicated neurosciences and trauma critical care units, an epilepsy monitoring unit, operating rooms including an intraoperative MRI, neuroimaging facilities, a neurorehabilitation unit, and clinical and basic research laboratories applicable to neuromodulation. This venue constitutes the sole site for surgical procedures and educational rounds, and most outpatient clinics and case conferences are conducted on-site as well.