Katrina Firlik

Katrina Firlik was the first woman admitted to the
neurosurgery residency program at the University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center, the largest–and one of the most
prestigious–neurosurgery programs in the country. She is now
a private practitioner in Greenwich, Connecticut, and a
clinical assistant professor at Yale University School of
Medicine. She lives in New Canaan, Connecticut, with her
husband, a neurosurgeon turned venture capitalist.