Paul Kalanithi, M.D.
Paul will complete residency in 2014 and plans to pursue a career as a surgeon-scientist, treating movement disorders, epilepsy and eloquent area tumors with a research focus in dynamics of the cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical loop. During medical school at Yale, he studied neuropathologic defects of fast-spiking interneuron networks in Tourette Syndrome. He is currently completing a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratories of Krishna Shenoy and Karl Deisseroth, developing optogenetic techniques in primates. Outside of neurosurgery, Paul enjoys eating any form of duck, reading all manner of books, and backpacking in the Sierras.
| 2008-present | Resident in Neurological Surgery, Stanford University |
| 2007-2008 | Combined General Surgery/Clinical Neuroscience Internship, Stanford University |
| 2003-2007 | MD, cum laude, Yale University |
| 2002-2003 | M.Phil, History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, Cambridge University |
| 1995-2000 | M.A., English Literature, B.A. Human Biology, Stanford University |
Research Interests: Optogenetics, electrical stimulation, motor physiology, neuroprostheses; outcomes research in neurosurgery
Program Completion: 2014
Honors/Awards:
| 2011 | Academy Award for Research, American Academy of Neurological Surgery |
| 2011 | SFNS Kaiser Award |
| 2009 | CSNS Socioeconomic Fellow |
| 2009 | Nominee, Arnold P Gold Foundation Humanism & Excellence in Teaching Award |
| 2008 | Best Poster, North American Neuromodulation Society Annual Meeting |
| 2007 | AOA |
| 2007 | Lewis H. Nahum Prize for Outstanding Research |
| 2005 | AMSA Paul Ambrose Political Leadership Institute Scholarship |
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Contact Info: Paul Kalanithi [paul.kalanithi gmail.com]