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News Release

November 9, 2012

Contact: Chris DeFrancesco, 860-679-3914
Email: cdefrancesco@uchc.edu

Neurosurgeon Returns to UConn Health Center

Dr. Ryan Zengou Is a UConn School of Medicine Graduate

FARMINGTON, CONN. – Dr. Ryan Zengou, a graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, is back at the UConn Health Center, practicing in the Division of Neurosurgery in the Department of Surgery.

The range of problems Zengou treats includes those pertaining to the brain, spine and peripheral nervous system. He has a particular interest in conditions related to cerebrovascular disease, as well as skull base and tumor surgery, including both primary brain tumors and metastatic disease.

Zengou’s return to the UConn Health Center follows extensive residency training at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, a major tertiary care referral center. While at Rush he trained in the latest techniques to address complex disorders of the brain and spine, including minimally invasive spine surgery and endoscopic approaches to the skull base.

He is seeing patients at the Health Center campus in Farmington and at the New England Musculoskeletal Institute’s Southington office, 1131 West St. Call 860-679-4719 for appointments.

Zengou lives in Farmington.

More information about the UConn Health Center Department of Surgery is available at www.uchc.edu/patients/services/surgery.

High-resolution photo: http://today.uchc.edu/images/news/zengou_ryan.jpg

Caption: Dr. Ryan Zengou, a neurosurgeon and UConn School of Medicine graduate, is now seeing patients at the UConn Health Center.

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