Clinical Instructor, Neurosurgery
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, United States
Matt Willsey grew up in Greenwood, Indiana. He attended MIT, where he received B.S. and M.Eng degrees in Electrical Engineering with a research focus in digital signal processing. He attended medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He completed his neurosurgery residency at the University of Michigan in 2022. Matt completed the enfolded CAST-approved fellowship in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery and completed a PhD in Biomedical Engineering during his 2-year protected research time with an additional year long leave-of-absence. He is currently completing a one-year fellowship in stereotactic/functional neurosurgery and epilepsy at Stanford University under the direction of Dr. Jaimie Henderson.
His clinical interests include deep brain stimulation, epilepsy, pain, and spine. His dissertation research with Drs. Parag Patil and Cynthia Chestek focuses on restorative neuroengineering, including intraoperative modulation of sensorimotor pathways, the effects of anesthetics on cortical signal flow, and brain-machine interface neuroprosthetics.
Monday, April 24, 2023
10:30am – 10:35am PST
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose