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    Michael C. Park, MD, PhD

    Associate Professor
    University of Minnesota

    Dr. Michael C. Park is a board certified neurosurgeon who is currently the Associate Professor, MnDRIVE Neuromodulation Scholar, Director of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Vice Chair of Education and Neurosurgery Residency Program Director in the Departments of Neurosurgery and Neurology at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. from the School of Medicine and the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology at the University of Kansas (KU) in Kansas City, KS, after having received a Bachelor of Science in Biology from KU in Lawrence, KS, and dual Bachelor in Science and Bachelor in Arts in Electrical Engineering and Economics, respectively, from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. He completed his neurosurgery residency at the Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University, in Providence, RI. He was the 2009 recipient of the prestigious William P. Van Wagenen Fellowship from the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and studied under Professor Jean Régis, a world renown stereotactic and functional neurosurgeon, at the Assistance Publique L’Hôpital d’Adulte de la Timone, in Marseille, France. Dr. Park has extensive experience with neuromodulation known as deep brain stimulation. This surgical therapy for brain conditions, such as Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, dystonia, OCD and epilepsy, modulates brain activity to treat the symptoms. He also utilizes neuromodulation such as spinal cord stimulation and intrathecal drug delivery to treat cancer and chronic pain. In addition, working with epilepsy specialists, Dr. Park performs procedures such as surgical placement of depth and grid electrodes in the brain to identify abnormal epileptic brain areas and offer treatments, which include resection, response neural stimulator (NeuroPace) placement, laser ablation, deep brain stimulation and vagal nerve stimulation. If patients are unable to have surgery, Dr. Park is able to treat some of the conditions using Gamma Knife Radiosurgery as well.

     

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