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Director, Epilepsy and Functional Neurosurgery
Brigham and Women's Hospital
G. Rees Cosgrove, MD, FRCSC, FAANS is the Director of Functional Neurosurgery at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. He received his neurosurgical training at the Montreal Neurological Institute and McGill University and spent 13 years at the Massachusetts General Hospital as the head of Epilepsy and Functional Neurosurgery before becoming Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Lahey Clinic and then the Stoll Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He returned to Boston in 2015 to focus on his clinical activities, translational research and resident education. He was named Director of the Neurosurgery Residency Training Program in 2016. As a leader in academic neurosurgery, he is a member of the executive committee of the World Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery; past president of the American Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery and an active member of the American Association of Neurosurgeons; the Congress of Neurological Surgeons; the American Academy of Neurological Surgery; and the Society of Neurological Surgeons. Dr. Cosgrove is the author of over 200 peer-reviewed publications, 240 abstracts and 74 book chapters. He has been an invited guest lecturer over 180 times and a visiting professor at 65 different academic institutions around the world. Dr. Cosgrove has received a number of honors, including the Gold Medal in Surgery of Queen’s University, the Wilder Penfield Award of the Montreal Neurological Institute, the Daniel D. Federman Outstanding Clinical Educator Award of Harvard Medical School, an Honorary BA from Brown University and an Honorary Litchfield Lectureship from Oxford University.
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Applications of MRgFUS: Thalamotomy and Pallidotomy
Sunday, April 27, 2025
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