Maher Presents Timothy M. George, MD, Memorial Lecture

The fourth annual Timothy M. George, MD, Memorial Lecture, held at Dell Children’s on November 8, was presented by Cormac O. Maher, MD, chief of neurosurgery at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and ​​Botha Chan Endowed Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Stanford University School of Medicine. Maher’s keynote lecture on current controversies in Chiari malformation was part of the Timothy M. George, MD, Memorial Lecture and Research Symposium: The Economics of Pediatric Health Care.

Maher opened the symposium with reflections on Timothy George, a professor of neurosurgery at Dell Medical School and a pediatric neurosurgeon at Dell Children’s who died unexpectedly in 2019. “I interacted with him extensively in neurosurgery spheres,” Maher said. “He always talked to you on your level. When I was coming into the field, he would introduce you to everybody and get you involved in whatever research was going on. He was really an amazing person, and his patients loved him.” 

Previous memorial lecture guest speakers have included Susan Durham, MD, MS, professor of clinical neurological surgery at Keck School of Medicine of USC and chief of neurosurgery at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles; John (Jay) Wellons III, MD, MSPH, professor of neurological surgery and pediatrics and chief of pediatric neurological surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center; and Bermans Iskandar, MD, professor and chair of pediatric neurosurgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.