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Daniel Yoshor, MD, FAANS (he/him/his)

Professor and Chair
Department of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Daniel Yoshor is the Charles Harrison Frazier Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Vice President for Clinical Integration and Innovation of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Prior to coming to Penn, he served as the Marc J. Shapiro Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine. He received his MD degree with honors from the University of Chicago, and then went on to neurosurgery residency at Baylor College of Medicine and fellowship training in brain tumor and epilepsy surgery at University of California, San Francisco. As a clinical neurosurgeon, Dr. Yoshor focuses on tumor and epilepsy surgery. He has one of the largest experiences in the nation in endoscopic pituitary and skull base tumor surgery. He also has extensive experience in the development and clinical implementation of novel neurotechnologies. As a neuroscientist, Dr. Yoshor is an established principal investigator with long record of NIH, DARPA, and VA Merit Award funding. Work from his laboratory has been published in leading scientific journals including Cell, Current Biology, eLife, Nature Medicine, Nature Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience, Neuron, and PNAS. His long-term research goals are to understand how neural activity in the brain is linked to perception and to develop a cortical visual prosthetic device to restore vision to the blind, in collaboration with a larger team of scientists, engineers, and clinicians.

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