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    Kai Miller, Ph.D, MD, PhD

    Professor of Neurosurgery
    Mayo Clinic

    Kai J. Miller, PhD, MD, PhD is a Professor of Neurosurgery at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, where he specializes in pediatric, functional, and epilepsy surgery. He is a native Californian who attended UC San Diego, where he played on the intercollegiate tennis team. He later attended the University of Washington for graduate school, obtaining a PhD in Physics, an MD, and a second PhD in Neuroscience. After completing his neurosurgery residency at Stanford University in California, Kai was named as the 2018 Van Wagenen fellow. He completed 3 clinical fellowships at Stanford and Utrecht (Netherlands) in epilepsy, deep-brain stimulation, and tumor resection in children and adults. Dr. Miller joined the neurosurgery staff at Mayo Clinic in Rochester in 2019. In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Miller studies basic human neurophysiology and clinical translation for cybernetics, epilepsy and functional neurosurgery. His group, the Cybernetics and Motor Physiology Laboratory, is focused on the creation of new tools to 1) control cybernetic prostheses, 2) induce brain plasticity after injury, and 3) intervene with distributed circuits in neuropsychiatric disease and movement dysfunction.

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