This month the PNA Spotlight shines on Dr. Richard Murray, a neurosurgeon practicing at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, VA. He was born in Tucson, Arizona and grew up in Stellenbosch, South Africa. He graduated from medical school at the University of Stellenbosch in 2001 and then worked as a physician in the fields of acute care and critical care in the United Kingdom, South Africa, and various other international locations. He then completed his neurosurgery internship, residency, and chief residency at the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT. He later did sub-specialty fellowship training in skull base and microneurosurgery at Louisiana State University, as well as a mini-fellowship in the field of minimally invasive endoscopic brain and skull base surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. In 2015 he was joined the Virginia Neurosurgery group where he specializes in the comprehensive management of pituitary, skull base, and brain tumors. Dr. Murray was kind enough to answer some questions from the PNA:
A study in World Neurosurgery coauthored by PNA member Varun Kshettry looks clinical outcomes after endoscopic endonasal resection of giant pituitary adenomas. They examined the medical records of 55 pituitary patients and found that endoscopic endonasal resection is superior to transsphenoidal and transcranial surgical methods.
This month the PNA Medical Corner spotlights a study on a new birth control pill for males, co-authored by Dr. Christina Wang, a longtime member of the PNA. The pill lowers sperm count and testosterone levels and replaces some of them with a synthetic androgen. The study was presented at the recent 2018 ENDO Conference in Chicago. Read more here: 
An upcoming documentary about wrester and actor Andre Rousimoff will reportedly include details about his struggle with acromegaly, which ended his life at age 47. Read more at 
