Cerebrovascular and neuro endovascular surgeon and Professor UNMC; Program Director Neurosurgery Residency UNMC
Nebraska, USA
Joined July 2018
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William Thorell, MD retweeted
🏈 An inspiring story of perseverance, gratitude & the strength of the human spirit. We’re proud to see our own Dr. Daniel Surdell featured in this story of hope & exceptional multidisciplinary care. nebraskamed.com/health/patie…
William Thorell, MD retweeted
Today we kicked off our #neurosurgery residency interview season & it was a great success filled with great conversations, & enthusiasm for the future of neurosurgery. Thank you to our faculty, residents, & applicants for making it such an awesome day!! 🧠🎉
William Thorell, MD retweeted
Excited for my new role as Councilor for the Society for Leukocyte Biology! @leukocytebiol
Tammy Kielian, PhD, a professor in our department, recently was elected to serve as a councilor for the Society of Leukocyte Biology: go.unmc.edu/qszv
ALT Tammy Kielian
William Thorell, MD retweeted
A fantastic turnout for our #Neurosurgery 3rd Annual Fall Visiting Professorship Lecture! Thank you to Dr. Giuseppe Lanzino for sharing his expertise and insights with our neurosurgery group. We’re grateful to everyone who joined us for an engaging and well-attended event! @unmc
Fantastic group! We shared some awesome stories about the good ol’ days.
Last week, our #neurosurgery alumni gathered to reconnect and reminisce with so many awesome stories! It was great to see so many familiar faces! @unmc
William Thorell, MD retweeted
In neurosurgery, repetition changes everything.
Cadaver-based training offers structural variability, but not pathology. A new generation of simulation technologies brings pathology into training, allowing surgeons to practice real surgical scenarios in a controlled environment.
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Proud to announce that our PGY-4 resident Dr. Elhaum Rezaii has been selected as the @councilsns Socioeconomic Fellow for 2026–2027! 🎉This fellowship recognizes emerging leaders dedicated to advancing socioeconomic research, advocacy, & patient-centered impact in #neurosurgery
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Please join us Wednesday, May 13, 2026 at 7AM CST as we welcome Dr. Rashi Sandooja for our @UNMC_NeuroSurg Grand Rounds Conference! Email [email protected] for a Zoom link to attend!
@unmc @NebraskaMed #Medtwitter @UnmcDem
William Thorell, MD retweeted
🐄 Only in Nebraska 🤠
Valentine seniors pulled off a late-night prank that brought cattle, a camper and a corral to the school parking lot.
STORY: sandhills.newschannelnebrask…
William Thorell, MD retweeted
We were honored to host the @AANSNeurosurg Medical Student Chapter Annual dissection lab last week. The program brought together students, #neurosurgery residents, and faculty for a day of rigorous discussion, technical insight, and collaborative learning in skull base surgery🙌🏻
William Thorell, MD retweeted
Hospitals have convinced a generation of doctors that the building is the value.
(Funny how that theory disappears the second there is a lawsuit)
Without doctors: no admissions, no surgeries, no procedures, no E&M billing, no facility fees, no DRGs, no MCC/CC capture, no 340B scripts, no quality metrics.
The building collects the fee.
The doctor creates the value.
That is the relationship. Time physicians started acting like it.
William Thorell, MD retweeted
The No. 3 vertical jump by a QB on the all-time NFL Combine list belongs to Cole Payton (40.00”)
📺 #NFLCombine on @nflnetwork
William Thorell, MD retweeted
for those who have never worked in healthcare, I made a simulation to get a sense of how difficult it is to do something even very simple like order Tylenol.
WARNING: this may be infuriating to some providers
William Thorell, MD retweeted
#ABNS #Boards #Neurosurgery @StanfordNsurg 47M avid cycler presents with weakness and numbness in right hand. Numbness includes digit 5 and medial half of digit 4, sparing the dorsal-medial hand and medial palm. Adductor pollicis and ADM are weak. Where is the likely entrapment?
William Thorell, MD retweeted
#ABNS #Boards #Neurosurgery @StanfordNsurg A patient is found to have an avulsion of the C6 nerve root. What surgical treatment would be appropriate to consider? Direct (primary) repair? Autograft nerve repair? Allograft nerve repair? Distal nerve transfers?
William Thorell, MD retweeted
#ABNS #Boards #Neurosurgery @StanfordNsurg You see this sign when examining a patient. What sign? What neuropathy? Why does this happen?
William Thorell, MD retweeted
#ABNS #Boards #Neurosurgery @StanfordNsurg On a nerve conduction study, the conduction velocity is found to be normal, with a reduced CMAP amplitude. There are fibrillation potentials and positive sharp waves noted in the corresponding muscles. What do these findings suggest?
William Thorell, MD retweeted
#ABNS #Boards #Neurosurgery @StanfordNsurg Patient has a total hip replacement and has a complete foot drop. Differential includes compression of the common peroneal nerve at fibular head versus peroneal division injury at the hip. How could you differentiate these?
