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Nitin Tandon, MD, is a board-certified and fellowship-trained neurosurgeon with expertise in the surgical treatment of epilepsy. He has performed over 3,500 brain operations, including more than 1,500 for brain tumors and 900 for epilepsy. He has also pioneered a number of innovative technologies and minimally invasive approaches, including robot-assisted stereo-electro-encephalography and laser ablation.
He’s also a professor, vice president of strategy and development in UTHealth Houston Neurosciences, the Nancy, Clive and Pierce Runnells Distinguished Chair in Neuroscience in the Vivian L. Smith Center for Neurologic Research, and the BCMS Distinguished Professor in Neurological Disorders and Neurosurgery at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston.
In addition, he’s chief of the epilepsy surgery program at Memorial Hermann’s Mischer Neuroscience Institute.
Tandon has served as a clinician at UTHealth Houston since 2004 and recently formed the Texas Institute for Restorative Neurotechnologies (TIRN) to study and develop new treatments for brain disorders.
His research interests yield fundamental insights into the processes of cognition and epilepsy using intracranial recordings, noninvasive imaging data, and cortical stimulation. These discoveries will help pave the way for innovative rehabilitative and neuroprosthetic approaches to the resolution of brain disorders such as intractable epilepsy.
Tandon’s research is funded by several National Institutes of Health grants, including a BRAIN initiative award, and the U.S. National Science Foundation. He has authored over 75 peer-reviewed publications in journals such as “Nature Neuroscience,” “Brain,” and “JAMA Neurology,” and is a member of several professional organizations. He is a clinical leader in the treatment of epilepsy and an avid scientist delving into its underlying causes and future therapies.
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