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    Martin Weinand, BS, MD, FAANS, FACS

    Professor of Neurosurgery
    University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ

    Martin E. Weinand was born in 1958 at the Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri where his father, Ernest E. Weinand, Jr., was a surgery resident and his mother, Martha Ellen Weinand, was a nurse. With his father's mentorship, he received the Eagle Scout award in 1972. He attended Central High School in St. Joseph, Missouri where his passion for the scholarly and creative pursuit of the scientific method was inspired by his chemistry teacher, Dr. William McLaughlin. He served as the captain of his high school and college swim teams where he developed lasting friendships. He received the Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia in 1980 where he was mentored by Dr. Leon Mandel to perform honors research in organic chemistry. Dr. Weinand graduated from medical school at St. Louis University in 1984 where he was inspired to pursue a neurosurgical career by Dr. M.B. Laskowski of the Department of Physiology and Dr. Kenneth Smith in the Division of Neurosurgery. He served an internship in surgery and completed neurosurgery residency training at the University of Kansas in 1990. In April, 1991, he completed a fellowship in epilepsy surgery at the University of Tennessee, Memphis, under the direction of Dr. Allen Wyler. In May, 1991, he joined the neurosurgery faculty at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ where he has remained for his entire academic neurosurgical career. Dr. Weinand has served as the Founding Program Director of the current Residency in Neurological Surgery (2003-2019), Chief, Division of Neurosurgery (2004-2009) and Professor (2004-) and Interim Head (2020-2021, 2022-2024), Department of Neurosurgery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. He is a member of the Western Neurosurgical Society, serving as the 2018 President; Arizona Neurosurgical Society, serving as the 2023-2026 President; and American Epilepsy Society. He has served as a guest examiner for the American Board of Neurological Surgery and on the AANS MOC/CME Committee, Editorial Board of the Neurosurgical Portal for Neurotrauma and Critical Care and American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, including the National Trauma Databank and Trauma Systems Committees. Dr. Weinand's research emphasis is in neurosurgical genomics with translational applications for intractable epilepsy, brain tumors and chronic pain disorders. On May 24, 1986, at St. Marys Cathedral in Wichita, Kansas, Dr. Weinand married Dr. Mary Ann Coady who completed her psychiatry residency at the University of Kansas in 1990. They are blessed with three children, Michael Alexander, Jaime Drew and Lauren Marie, all of whom share their parents' faith and interests in nutrition, desert wildlife and swimming. Mary Ann passed away from metastatic breast cancer on September 26, 2007. On April 24, 2010, Dr. Weinand married his best friend and favorite NeuroCritical Care ICU Nurse, Shauna Ruth Reynolds, with whom he enjoys swimming, traveling and reading.

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