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    Jon T. Willie, MD, PhD, FAANS

    Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery
    Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

    Jon T. Willie, M.D., Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery, Neurology, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Biomedical Engineering; Clinical and Fellowship Director of Stereotactic, Functional, and Epilepsy Surgery; Director of the Laboratory for Behavioral Neuromodulation, and Deputy Director for the Center for Innovation in Neuroscience and Technology at Washington University in St. Louis

    Dr. Willie obtained his B.A. in Biochemistry with Honors from the University of Texas at Austin and his Medical Doctorate and Doctorate of Philosophy in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas. He completed his neurosurgery residency at Washington University in St. Louis and his fellowship in stereotactic, functional, and epilepsy surgery at Emory University in Atlanta. His clinical practice involves high volumes of epilepsy and movement disorder procedures in adult and pediatric patients. He authored the first series of laser interstitial thermal therapy for medial temporal lobe epilepsy and epileptic cavernous malformations. He is the Primary Investigator for foundation-, industry-, and NIH-funded studies involving thalamic stimulation for epilepsy, surgical therapy for treatment-resistant depression, the mechanisms of facial recognition in the temporal lobe, and memory enhancement from brain stimulation. His team is developing novel interventions to treat epilepsy, treatment-resistant depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and sleep disorders.

    Disclosure(s): Abbott/St. Jude: Consultant (Ongoing), Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); AiM Medical Robotics, Inc.: Consultant (Ongoing); Clearpoint Neuro, Inc.: Speaker/Honoraria (Ongoing); Fortec Medical, Inc.: Consultant (Ongoing); Inner Cosmos, Inc.: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Medtronic Navigation, Inc.: Speaker/Honoraria (Ongoing); Turing Medical, Inc.: Consultant (Ongoing)

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