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    Richard G. Ellenbogen, MD

    Professor and Chair, Department of Neurological Surgery
    University of Washington

    Richard G. Ellenbogen, MD, FACS is Professor and Theodore S. Roberts Endowed Chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Washington. He is an attending surgeon at Harborview Medical Center, Seattle Children’s Hospital and University of Washington Medical Center. He is also Director of the UW Medicine Neurosciences Institute. In addition, he is Director of the Neurological Surgery Residency Program and Founding Co-Director of the Seattle Sports Concussion Program, a joint program sponsored by Seattle Children’s Hospital and UW Medicine. He is currently a member of the ACGME Residency Review Committee for Neurological Surgery. He has served as Chair of the American Board of Neurological Surgery, President of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons (ASPN), President of the Society of University Neurological Surgeons, and President of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS).

    His numerous areas of clinical expertise encompass both pediatric and adult congenital neurological surgery, endoscopic brain surgery, brain tumor surgery and neuro-trauma care. Dr. Ellenbogen has three recent extramurally funded research efforts. He is the PI on an NIH/NINDS funded (R-25) Translational Neuroscience and Neurological Surgery, an NCI-funded molecular imaging lab study targeting brain tumors using immunofluorescent nanoparticles, and a Paul Allen Brain Science Foundation funded project on mapping of the transcriptome in patients who have suffered a TBI. He was the volunteer Co-Director of the NFL Head, Neck and Spine Medical Committee from 2010 to 2017. In that capacity, he advocated for health- and safety-related rules changes, sideline concussion diagnosis, management protocols, over 100 million dollars of research funding and youth concussion protection laws in all 50 states.

    Dr. Ellenbogen completed his Neurosurgery Training at The Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School Program. Prior to joining the University of Washington, he was Chairman of the National Capital Area Neurosurgery Consortium and Residency Program Director, (Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Bethesda National Naval Medical Center), and Neurosurgery Director and Co-Principal Investigator of the Department of Defense Veterans Head Injury Program, also at Walter Reed Medical Center. Dr. Ellenbogen also served as Commander of the 252nd Medical Detachment KE Team (XVIII Airborne Corp) during Operation Desert Shield/Storm, and was awarded a Bronze Star for his service.

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