About Us
Board of Advisors
Dr. Ramachandra Tummala, MD
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Dr. Ramachandra Tummala is a Professor of Neurosurgery and the Program Director of the Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology Fellowship at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Dr. Tummala earned his medical degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and completed his residency in Neurosurgery at the University of Minnesota. He completed two fellowships, one in Cerebrovascular/Skull Base Surgery at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital and another in Neuroendovascular Surgery at the University of Buffalo, NY. He has been a faculty member since 2014 and is currently a full professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
Dr. Henrik Ullman, MD, PhD
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Dr. Ullman is a Neuroradiologist, Neurointerventionist, and Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Dr. Ullman earned his Medical Degree and PhD in Neuroscience from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He finished his Radiology residency at UCLA and is a board-certified radiologist by the American Board of Radiology. Additionally, Dr. Ullman completed a Neurointerventional Radiology Fellowship at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. His professional interests revolve around technical advancements in Neuroradiology and Neurointervention and expanding access to advanced diagnostic and therapeutic technologies to underserved communities.
Dr. Femi Bankole MBChB, FWACS
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Dr. Femi Bankole finished from the medical school of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife where he was on the Dean’s list. After internship and national service, he pursued his desire for specialist training in Neurosurgery at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (L.U.T.H).
Dr. Bankole completed the residency program in 2002 and was awarded the fellowship of the West African College of Surgeons. After receiving his fellowship, he had further specialty training at various hospitals including the Emory Clinic, Atlanta, Georgia, the Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota and the CURE hosptial,Mbale, Uganda.
As a consultant Neurosurgeon, Dr. Bankole has championed access to quality neurosurgery care nationally and across the sub-region. His stated objective is “to further develop the practice of Neurosurgery in Nigeria with special regard to improving the quality of and access to Neurosurgical services throughout the country”. This commitment has resulted in the training of specialist manpower who work in many states across the nation and abroad.
Since 2003, he has worked at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Lagos, Nigeria as a consultant Neurosurgeon and his passion has been to increase the scale and level of Neurosurgical practice not only in LUTH but across Nigeria.
Dr. Bankole also holds an academic appointment in the Department of Surgery, College of Medicine University of Lagos where he is a Professor and Head of Neurosurgery.
He is passionate about giving back to the community and has been involved in several medical missions to countries in Africa and South East Asia. He is also involved with mentoring the next generation of Nigerian leaders and has served as a facilitator on several fora for mentoring young professionals.
Dr Bankole is happily married and he and his wife are blessed with two adult children.