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= John McLellan Tew, Jr. =

John McLellan Tew, Jr. (May 18, 1936 --) is an American neurosurgery specialist known for his work in treating brain tumors, intracranial brain aneurysms, image-guided surgery and trigeminal neuralgia. He served as president of all major American neurosurgical organizations, co-authored four neurosurgical textbooks, and trained more than 60 neurosurgical residents.

Early life and education
Born in Linden, North Carolina, Tew grew up on a farm where, while helping care for livestock, he learned his first surgical skills from his grandfather. Encouraged by his mother, who was unable to attend college, and his father, who was unable to finish high school, Dr. Tew dreamed of a world beyond the farm and enrolled in Campbell Junior College, now Campbell University, in Buies Creek, North Carolina, seven miles from home. An organic chemistry professor saw promise—a diamond in the rough—in the young John Tew and hired him to sweep floors and assist in his laboratory.

Tew transferred to Wake Forest University for his final two years of undergraduate studies, graduating in 1957. He then entered the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, where he was named "best anatomist" in his freshman class. It was the first academic prize of his life and an acknowledgement of his dexterity with tissue and his ability to confront the insides of the human body.

Following graduation from medical school in 1961, Tew completed an internship at Cornell Medical Center at New York University (1961-1962); performed a general surgery residency at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts (1962-1963); and served as a Cornell Medical Clinical Associate at the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, in Bethesda, Maryland (1963-1965).

Co-authorships
• Neurosurgery: State of the Art Reviews, Laser Applications in Neurosurgery, Volume 2, Number 2 ( Hanley & Belfus: Philadelphia, 1987)

• Lasers in Neurosurgery (Springer-Verlag: Wien and New York, 1988)

• Atlas of Operative Microneurosurgery, Volume I (WB Saunders: Philadelphia, 1994).

• Atlas of Operative Microneurosurgery, Volume II (WB Saunders: Philadelphia, 2001)