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Meet Our Medical College of Wisconsin Neurosurgery Faculty

Clinical Faculty

Shelly D. Timmons, MD, PhD, FACS, FAANS

Professor and Chair, Sanford J. Larson Chair in Neurosurgery

Elsa Arocho-Quinones, MD

Assistant Professor

Stephanie K. Cheok, MD

Assistant Professor

Rupen Desai, MD

Assistant Professor

Andrew Foy, MD

Associate Professor

Karl A. Greene, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Green Bay

Kunal Gupta, MD, PhD, FAANS

Assistant Professor

Hirad S. Hedayat, MD

Associate Professor; Chief, Neurotrauma; Chief, Vascular Neurosciences; Surgical Director, Neuroscience ICU

Dan Heffez, MD, FRCS

Professor

Bruce A. Kaufman, MD

Professor

Irene Kim, MD

Assistant Professor

Max O. Krucoff, MD, FAANS, FACS

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery; Co-Director of Neurosurgical Oncology; Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Shekar N. Kurpad, MD, PhD

Professor; Senior Associate Dean, Neuroscience; Founding Director, Wisconsin Institute of NeuroScience (WINS)

Max C. Lee, MD

Assistant Professor

Sean M. Lew, MD, FAANS

Mardak/Vandenberg Family Chair of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Children’s Wisconsin; Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin; Director, Epilepsy Surgery, Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin

Joshua E. Medow, MD, MSc, PhD, FAANS, FACS, FNCS, FAHA, FCCM, FAMIA

Chief, Professor

Wade M. Mueller, MD

Professor

John D. Nerva, MD

Assistant Professor

Peter A. Pahapill, MD, PhD, FACS, FRCSC

Professor; Director, Functional Neurosurgery

Saman Shabani, MD

Assistant Professor; Director, Spinal Oncology Surgery; Director, Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery; Director, Spine Fellowship Program

Grant P. Sinson, MD

Associate Professor; Director, Neurotrauma; Director, Outpatient Clinic Operations

Karin Swartz, MD, FAAN

Professor

Aditya Vedantam, MD

Associate Professor; Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery; Director, Center for Cervical Myelopathy; Adjunct Faculty in Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, and Orthopedics

Marjorie Wang, MD, MPH

Professor; Vice Chair, Clinical Operations; Chief, Community Division of Neurosurgery

Christopher E. Wolfla, MD

Professor

Nathan Zwagerman, MD

Associate Professor; Director, Pituitary and Skull Base Surgery; Director, Residency Program

Non-Surgical Faculty

Jordan Gliedt, DC

Associate Professor

Jeffrey A. King, DC, MS

Associate Professor; Director of Chiropractic

Boyd M. Peterson, DC

Assistant Professor

Nicole Patricia Trochil, DC

Assistant Professor

Gregory L. Whitcomb, DC

Associate Professor

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