Nancy Abu-Bonsrah: The First Black Female Neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins University

Ghanaians on social media have been congratulating Nancy Abu-Bonsrah, who is said to have become the first black female Neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins University. The Johns Hopkins University is an American private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, the university was named for its first benefactor, the American entrepreneur, abolitionist, and philanthropist Johns Hopkins. Some of Nancy’s research papers at the University include the following:

Giant cystic schwannoma of the sacral spine Langerhans cell histiocytosis of the cervical spine

The Afro-Cardiac Study: Cardiovascular Disease Risk and Acculturation in West African Immigrants
in the United States: Rationale and Study Design

Traumatic atlanto-occipital dissociation

Percutaneous embolization and spondylectomy of an aggressive L2 hemangioma

Thoracic pneumorachis

General surgery education: a systematic review of training worldwide

Intramedullary contrast injection in the setting of a split spinal cord