Director, Functional Neurosurgery
Chadd M. Funk, MD, PhD
Global Neurosciences Institute
Biography
Dr. Chadd Funk grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and attended Dartmouth College, graduating with a BA in Neuroscience in 2007. After two years as a research assistant with Dr. Michael Gazzaniga at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he entered the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, completing his PhD in the laboratory of Dr. Giulio Tononi with first-author publications in the Journal of Neuroscience and Current Biology.
He graduated in 2018 with an MD and a PhD in Neuroscience, completed neurosurgery residency at Emory University in 2025 and a Functional Neurosurgery fellowship at Vanderbilt University in 2026. He is now Director of Functional Neurosurgery at the Global Neurosciences Institute.
Session
Thu · 10:15 AM
Surgical Treatments of Epilepsy and Parkinson's Disease
Advances in neuromodulation and associated favorable clinical outcomes have established these techniques as a critical component in the treatment of medication-refractory epilepsy and movement disorders. This talk will serve as a primer addressing the relevant neuroanatomy, indications, and surgical approaches for the management of these conditions.