Newswise — Dr. Anand Germanwala, assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, is available to reporters to comment on aneurysms, including mechanisms, national statistics and new therapies. He can also define and explain the sometimes controversial issue of "brain death."

Germanwala is also chief of cerebrovascular neurosurgery with extensive training and experience in brain aneurysms.

For more on Dr. Germanwala, visit: http://surgery.med.unc.edu/detail.asp?ID=222