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Adrianna Ranger, MD

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Western University
Office: London Health Sciences Centre, Victoria Hospital B1-138C
Phone: 519-685-8107
Secretary: Monica Ramirez

 

 

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Adrianna Ranger is a Paediatric Neurosurgeon at the Children's Hospital, London Health Sciences Center and an Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry. She completed her medical studies at McMaster University in 1993 and subsequently completed residency training in Neurosurgery at Western University in 1999. After a Fellowship in Paediatric Neurosurgery at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa, Dr. Ranger returned to London to commence practice in 2000. Dr. Ranger is the Research Chair of the Brain Tumor Foundation of Canada and a member of the Board of Directors. She participates on the Medical Advisory Committee of the Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Association of Ontario. Dr. Ranger's main area of research and clinical interest is paediatric brain tumors. Dr. Ranger is a Guelph native who graduated from McMaster University medical school in 1993 and completed her residency training in neurology at Western in 1999. She did a year's fellowship training in paediatric neurosurgery in Ottawa and has particular interest in critically head-injured children and the treatment of brain swelling from trauma. Dr. Ranger joined CNS in 2000.

Dr Ranger is currently Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Paediatrics at Western University. She is one of the first female neurosurgeons in the country and the first to specialize in paediatric neurosurgery. Dr. Ranger won the prestigious Kenneth Shulman award from the American Association of Neurological Surgeons in 1999 for outstanding basic science research by a neurosurgical resident. She joined the Department in 2000.

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