A
dedicated physician who played an integral role in the neurosurgery and spine
surgery programs at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston for nearly a decade,
Dr. Sagun Tuli recently transitioned into a post as one of the lead surgeons at
the Center for Advanced Brain and Spine Surgery in Natick, Massachusetts.
Educated at the University of Toronto, Dr. Tuli became a Fellow of the Royal
College of Surgeons of Canada in 2000 after which she returned to her alma
mater to serve as an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery for a period of two
years. During this time she also leveraged her expertise to instruct students
at the Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Center in Toronto. After
settling down in Boston in 2002, Dr. Sagun Tuli began teaching at Harvard
Medical School was eventually named an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery in
2005. Although she no longer maintains her seat on Harvard’s faculty, Dr. Tuli
remains firmly committed to mentoring the next generation of surgeons who hope
to follow in her footsteps.
Dr.
Sagun Tuli has garnered a multiplicity of scholarships and awards for her work
over the course of both her academic and professional careers. Chosen as a
Faculty Scholar and selected for the John Melady Award, among others, during her
time at the University of Toronto, Dr. Tuli also won an Outstanding Abstract
Distinction Award from the Congress of Neurological Surgeons two yeas in a row,
just one of many recognitions she has recently amassed.
To
spotlight her personal interest in and devotion to mentoring aspiring surgeons,
the AMA Women Physicians Congress singled out Dr. Sagun Tuli for its Physician
Mentor Recognition Award while she was still on staff at Brigham and Women’s
Hospital.
During
her tenure there, Dr. Tuli performed complex surgeries on a regular basis while
also undertaking 35 to 50 patient consultations each week. She adeptly balanced
all of these demands with her mentorship activities, offering guidance and
direction to medical students and residents in the process of completing their
training at the hospital.
