Jay Gill
Jay grew up in St. Louis, MO where he engaged in outreach programs geared toward underrepresented minorities in medicine and developed a passion for medicine and neuroscience. He went on to study Cognitive Science, Computer Science and Biology at University of Pennsylvania. He later obtained a degree in Biotechnology at Brown University followed by a joint MD and PhD (Neuroscience) at UCLA. During his PhD he studied how closed loop deep brain stimulation, achieved using the RNS device, can be utilized to treat treatment-resistant PTSD within a clinical trial. Jay aims to fuse neurosurgical training with his background in human electrophysiology and cognitive neuroscience to treat patients with targeted, personalized care.
Education:
2025 – Present
Stanford University – Palo Alto, CA
Department of Neurosurgery
Resident Physician
2017-2025
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA – Los Angeles, CA
MD, PhD- Neuroscience
2015-2019
Brown University – Providence, RI
MS, Biotechnology
2011-2015
University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, PA
BS, Cognitive Science
Honors & Awards:
- 31st Samuel Eiduson Student Prize for distinguished dissertation in Neuroscience, UCLA
- Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Fellowship, NIH
- Training in Neurotechnology Translation Fellow, UCLA
- Gates Millennium Scholar