Fraser C. Henderson Jr., MD, FAANS
Dr. Henderson Jr. returned to Maryland in early 2024 to join the Center for Brain and Spine with the mission to provide compassionate and excellent neurosurgical care for the people of suburban and Southern Maryland. His career has blended academic expertise in neurosurgical oncology and global neurosurgery with a broad training exposure requisite for meeting the needs of his fellow Marylanders in healthcare settings accessible to the community.
After growing up in Prince George’s County, he graduated with High Distinction from the University of Virginia, taught elementary students in Western China, then returned to Charlottesville to earn his Medical Degree. He completed neurosurgical residency at the Medical University of South Carolina, which included a six-month appointment as Neurosurgery Research Fellow at Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, under Dr. Steven Brem. After residency, he served as Neurosurgical Instructor and a Fellow to Dr. Theodore Schwartz in Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine in Manhattan.
Dr. Henderson Jr. then accepted an invitation with his wife and children to move overseas to rural Kenya. There he joined Dr. William R. Copeland IV in training Kenyan neurosurgery residents through the Pan African Academy for Christian Surgeons, supported at Tenwek Mission Hospital by World Medical Mission, a ministry of Samaritan’s Purse. During this time in Kenya, he was appointed Global/Volunteer Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery from Loma Linda University, completed neurosurgery board examinations as a Fellow of the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa, and co-led the Tenwek neurosurgery program in graduating its first Kenyan neurosurgery resident, Dr. Emmanuel Wafula. Dr. Henderson Jr. has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed manuscripts and currently serves the role of Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Maryland.
Today Dr. Henderson Jr. delights in working alongside Dr. Amini to provide world-class surgery with a patient-centered approach to diagnosis and treatment that utilizes the most current and least-invasive technologies.
