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Neurosurgical Residents Picked for White House Fellow Program

Alexander Tenorio, MD, a neurological surgery resident at the University of California, San Diego, has been named to the 2024-2025 White House Fellows class and is working at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Nalini Tata, MD, MPP, a neurosurgery resident at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center/Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, has been named to the 2024-2025 White House Fellows class and is working at the White House Office of Cabinet Affairs.

They join 13 other individuals selected to participate in this prestigious program and follow in the footsteps of neurosurgeons Jeffrey Nadel, MD (2022-2023); Jeremy Hosein, MD (2018-2019); Lindsey B. Ross, MD (2016-2017); Anand Veeravagu, MD (2012-2013) and Sanjay K. Gupta, MD (1997-1998).

The White House Fellows Program was created in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson to give promising American leaders “first hand, high-level experience with the workings of the Federal government, and to increase their sense of participation in national affairs.”