As the Medical Director of CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda, Warf pioneered a low-cost, low-risk alternative to the typical treatment for hydrocephalus.
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Benjamin Warf
Work and Career.
Warf grew up in Pikeville, Kentucky, where his father was a pastor. After graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1984, Warf completed his neurosurgical residency training at Case Western University in 1991, and was the first Fellow in Pediatric Neurosurgery at Boston Children's Hospitalfrom 1991 to 1992. He joined the faculty of University of Kentucky College of Medicine in 1992, where he served as Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery and Director of Surgical Education until 2000. 
 In 2000, Warf moved his wife and 6 children to Uganda to help found the CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda, the only pediatric neurosurgery specialty hospital in sub-Saharan Africa. There, he served as Medical Director and Chief of Surgery until 2006. The hospital remains a part of the CURE International network of surgical specialty hospitals for children in developing countries, currently performing over 1200 pediatric neurosurgical operations each year. Through training and professional development, the hospital is now fully staffed by Ugandan neurosurgeons, physicians, and nurses. While there, Warf founded the CURE Hydrocephalus program that trains and equips neurosurgeons from developing countries to treat infant hydrocephalus using a minimally invasive endoscopic technique (ETV/CPC) that greatly reduces the number of children requiring implantation of and lifelong dependence on ventriculoperitoneal shunts. 
