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Like all surgeons, Dr. Ben Carson works within a close-knit team of nurses, physicians, technicians, and surgical staff. He is quick to credit these collaborations as essential to his success. Intricate, medically-choreographed brain surgeries such as hemispherectomies require up to 25 individuals - physicians, nurses, and technicians - to work together as one.
A team of neurosurgery physician assistants (PAs), led by Carol James, P.A.-C., and neurosurgery residents and nurses work alongside him in the operating room and oversee the care of patients before, during, and after surgery. Office manager Audrey Jones oversees a staff of six in managing the office and patient paperwork, as well as Dr. Carson's complex surgical, teaching, and research calendar, and his corporate, legislative, and educational appointments and projects.
In 2001, a third neurosurgeon Tony Avellino, M.D., joined Carson and fellow neurosurgeons Jon Weingart, M.D., and Rafael Tamango, M.D., in the division of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins. In 2001, they will operate on hundreds of children referred to Hopkins by pediatricians, oncologists, pediatricians, neurologists, trauma physicians, orthopaedists, and others.