Research and Innovation

Jesse Woodbury enrolled in the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering’s (CSNE’s) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program for the summer of 2017, and worked in Neurological Surgery Assistant Professor Rajiv Saigal's lab.

KARE 11 News in Minnesota featured a story on Associate Professor Christine Mac Donald's recent findings that question the medical belief that those with traumatic brain injuries stabilize in the year following their injury. Her research shows that a large number of service members with TBIs declined instead.

Essential Tremor affects an estimated 7 million people in the U.S. alone and can be treated with Deep Brain Stimulation, where an electrode stimulates the brain to quiet the symptoms.

Dr. Louis J. Kim, Vice-Chair and Chief of Neurological Surgery at Harborview Medical Center was featured in a KOMO news story about a stroke patient, Sue McNeely, who underwent life-saving angioplasty after suffering a stroke while driving.

VICIS, a company cofounded by Neurological Surgery Associate Professor Samuel Browd, has won the Puget Sound Business Journal award for it's football helmet, the Zero1. The helmet is multi-layered and designed to absorb some of the force of an impact. Read more at the Puget Sound Business Journal.

On February 14th, Officer Mike McClaurghy returned home after a miraculous recovery from a gun shot wound to the head. Neurological Surgery Professor and Chair Richard Ellenbogen, who oversaw Officer McClaurghy's treatment, was interviewed for the komonews.com story.