Dr. Kristine Ravina is a neurosurgery pre-residency fellow in neurosurgery at Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, a clinical instructor of neurosurgery at Boston University School of Medicine and a visiting research fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. She is a foreign medical graduate from Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia (class of 2015). She has completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in neuroscience at Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University and nearly three years of research work as a research associate at Neurorestoration Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California with focus on stroke, open vascular, epilepsy surgery and cerebral revascularization. She is an inventor and an author of more than 50 peer-reviewed research papers, numerous national and international conference abstracts and presentations as well as a successful NIH grant and patent applications. She is actively involved in mentoring and supervising pre-medical and medical students and participating in translational collaborative research projects. Dr.Ravina is currently a full time second year pre-residency fellow at a busy level I trauma center with full hands-on experience and responsibilities of a junior neurosurgery resident. Outside of work, Dr. Ravina is an outdoors enthusiast passionate about mountaineering, wilderness expeditions, hiking, trail running and paragliding.

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