Dr. Lola Chambless of the CNS Leadership Institute talks with Dr. Susan Durham about lessons she has learned on negotiation.

Dr. Susan Durham is the J Gordon McComb Family Endowed Chair and Chief of the Division of Neurosurgery at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and Co-Director of The Neurological Institute at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.  Prior to returning to CHLA in 2020, she served as the second female head of an academic neurosurgery program when in 2016 she became Chief of Neurosurgery at the University of Vermont Medical Center.  Her academic interests include addressing gender-related issues in the neurosurgical workforce, improving the resident interview and selection process, and the creation of evidence-based practice guidelines.