Editor Name: Dr. Jerry Day

Country: Australia

University: University of Arkansas

Educational Qualification: Doctor Of medicine 

Designation: Neurosurgeon

Department: Neurology 

Email:  uswallabyau@yahoo.com.au 

BIOGRAPHY: 

Dr Day Graduated with Honours from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in May 1989.

He completed his Neurosurgical training at University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Centre, Parkland and Dallas Children’s Hospitals, Penn State University Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania in June 1996.  Pursuing further expertise in cerebrovascular surgery led him to Sydney in May of 1993 to undertake a position as a Neurovascular fellow with Professor Michael Morgan at the University of Sydney and Royal North Shore Hospital.  

In July 1996, on completion on his Neurosurgical training he joined Tri-State Neuroscience Center, Huntington, West Virginia and developed a comprehensive adult and paediatric Neurosurgical practice including appointments as Clinical Instructor, Marshall University School of Medicine, physician reviewer West Virginia State Medical Institute and Clinical Director, St. Mary’s Hospital Stroke Center.  He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Neurological Surgery and following exacting American Neurosurgical Board standards, he has successfully passed the recertification Board exams required every 10 years.  With a passion for and active involvement in providing education for medical, nursing and allied health care students, Dr Day enrolled at the University of Wollongong  and has successfully complete a Graduate Certificate in Medical Education in 2018.

MEMBERSHIPS

• Fellow of the Royal Australasia College Surgeons. (FRACS) (Neurosurgery examiner. 2012-present)

• Neurosurgical Society of Australasia (Board Member 2013-2014)

• Spine Society Australia (2015-present)

• Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. (FACS) (1997- present)

• American Board of Neurological Surgery (1999- present)

• Fellow ‘International’of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (FIAANS)

• Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) (1997- present)

• North American Spine Society (NASS)

• AO Spine International

Full Biography: http://illawarraneurosurgeons.com.au/doctors/dr-jerry-day/