Frederick A. Boop, MD, FACS, has retired from Le Bonheur Children's Hospital after 22 years of service.
During his time at Le Bonheur, Dr. Boop was co-director of the Neuroscience Institute and medical director of the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit. He also served as chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and chief of the division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
During his storied career, Dr. Boop held many national leadership positions including president of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons, president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and president of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery. He also held regional leadership positions as president of the Southern Neurosurgical Society and president of the Tennessee Neurosurgical Society.
With the retirement of Dr. Boop, Pediatric Neurosurgeon Paul Klimo, MD, has been named co-director of Le Bonheur's Neuroscience Institute. He also serves as chief of the division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
Dr. Klimo is a two-time winner of the Pediatrics Paper of the Year by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS). In 2018 he won for his research on survival rates for pineoblastoma tumors and in 2019 for his work on The Preventable Shunt Revision Rate which found that of the 5,092 shunt operations performed, 861 failed within 90 days and that of those, 307 were determined to be potentially preventable.
Dr. Klimo attended medical school at Medical College of Wisconsin and completed his internship and residency at the University of Utah. He is certified by the American Board of Pediatric Neurosurgery and the American Board of Neurosurgery. Dr. Klimo's patient care emphasis includes brain tumors, spinal surgery, epilepsy surgery, vascular neurosurgery and endoscopy.