Katrina S. Firlik Biography

Dr. Katrina Firlik made history as the first woman admitted to the neurosurgery residency program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center one of the largest and most prestigious programs in the country. She then spent six years as a neurosurgeon in private practice in Greenwich Connecticut and served on the clinical faculty at Yale University School of Medicine.
Dr. Firlik currently focuses on medical innovation as an entrepreneur. She is co-founder and chief medical officer of HealthPrize Technologies. HealthPrize has developed a novel solution to the problem of poor compliance with prescription medications a problem that leads to poor outcomes and an estimated $290 billion in preventable medical spending per year in the US.
Her first book Another Day in the Frontal Lobe draws on her rare combination of wit humor and medical insight to create a neurosurgeon's Kitchen Confidential – a unique insider's memoir of a fascinating profession. Dr. Firlik recounts how her background as a surgeon's daughter with a strong stomach and a keen interest in the brain led her to this rarefied specialty and she describes her challenging atypical trek from medical student to fully qualified surgeon.

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