BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Noted Bloomington neurosurgeon and Illinois Wesleyan University alumna Ann Stroink will deliver the address “Cerebral Plasticity: Lifelong Learning” for the University’s Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 2 at 1 p.m. on the Eckley Quadrangle. Stroink will be one of two recipients of an honorary doctor of humane letters degree during the Commencement ceremony, along with Robert Quinn, executive director of the Scholars at Risk Network (SAR).
Ann Stroink, a 1976 graduate of Illinois Wesleyan, is a board-certified neurosurgeon and senior partner of Central Illinois Neuro Health Sciences, a large neurosurgical practice in central Illinois she established in 1985. A biology major at Illinois Wesleyan, Stroink was the first woman to train in general neurosurgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and was a fellow in pediatric neurosurgery at the Hospital for Sick Children at the University of Toronto.