Professor, Division of Functional Neurosurgery
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, Oregon, United States
Kim James Burchiel was born in 1950 in Holyoke, Massachusetts. His undergraduate education was at the University of California, Davis, majoring in Biochemistry and Genetics. He then went to medical school at the University of California, San Diego graduating in 1976. He completed his surgical internship at the UCLA/Harbor General Hospital in Torrance, California and entered neurosurgical residency at the University of Washington under the leadership of Dr. Arthur A. Ward. Under the tutelage of Drs. Ward, Ojemann, Loeser and Wyler, Dr. Upon completion of the residency program in 1982, Dr. Burchiel remained on the staff of the University of Washington as Assistant Professor and Chief of Neurosurgery at the Seattle VA Medical Center. During his six years at University of Washington. In 1988, Dr. Burchiel accepted the position of Professor and Head of the Division of Neurosurgery at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. During his tenure there, the OHSU Division of Neurosurgery expanded to become a clinically active program with a fully accredited residency training program in Neurological Surgery with emphasis on clinical and basic neurosurgical research. Dr. Burchiel served as Chairman of the OHSU Department of Neurological Surgery from 1997-2015. He is now Professor and Head, Division of Functional Neurosurgery, within the Department of Neurological Surgery at OHSU. Dr. Burchiel's honors include being Honored Guest, American Association of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Annual Meeting (2016); Honored Guest Siberian Neurosurgical Congress, Novosibirsk, Russia (2019); Honored Guest, Al Ahzar University, Department of Neurosurgery (2018, 2019). Dr. Burchiel has given over 26 named lectures, and been a Visiting Professor at over 50 institutions world-wide. He has received the Distinguished Service Awards of the Society of University Neurosurgeons, the Society of Neurological Surgeons, and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. Dr. Burchiel is past Chairman of the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Pain, past-President of the American Board of Pain Medicine, past-President of the Society of University Neurosurgeons, and past-President of the Western Neurosurgical Society. He has been a Director and Vice- Chairman of the American Board of Neurological Surgery, he is Past-Secretary and President of the Society of Neurological Surgeons, and he was a member and former Chairman of the ACGME Residency Review Committee for Neurological Surgery. Beginning in 1994, he has now trained over 50 fellows in Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery. His major clinical interests are in Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) for movement disorders and other conditions, and the surgical treatment of pain, particularly trigeminal neuralgia. His research interests are concerned with the physiology of nociception and neuropathic pains, including trigeminal neuralgia, the neurosurgical treatment of movement disorders, epilepsy surgery, image-guided neurosurgery, and the application of DBS to the problem of obesity. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, and his five published textbooks include the Surgical Management of Pain (1st and 2nd editions), Spinal Cord Injury Pain: Assessment, Mechanisms, Management, and Microelectrode Recording in Movement Disorder Surgery, and Functional Neurosurgery and Neuromodulation. He and his wife, Debra, have three children, and live in Portland, Oregon.
Sunday, April 23, 2023
1:50pm – 2:20pm PST
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose