Faculty

 FACULTY

William A. Friedman, MD
Professor & Chairman
Albert L. Rhoton, Jr, MD, Chairman's Professor

Erin M. Dunbar, MD
Assistant Professor
Co-Director, Preston A. Wells, Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy

Kelly D. Foote, MD
Assistant Professor
Co-Director, Movement Disorders Center

Brian L. Hoh, MD
Assistant Professor
William Merz Professorship in Neurological Surgery

R. Patrick Jacob, MD
Associate Professor
Dunspaugh-Dalton Professor

Stephen B. Lewis, MD
Assistant Professor
James and Newton Eblen Professor

J. Richard Lister, MD, MBA
Professor
Associate Chairman

Gregory A. Murad, MD
Clinical Lecturer

David W. Pincus, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
L. D. Hupp Professor

John F. Reavey-Cantwell, MD
Clinical Lecturer

Albert L. Rhoton, Jr., MD
Professor & Chairman Emeritus
R. D. Keene Family Professor

Steven N. Roper, MD
Professor
Edward Shedd Wells Professor

 JOINT FACULTY

Chris S. Firment, MD
Department of Radiology

Michael E. Mahla, MD
Department of Anesthesiology

Michael S. Okun, MD
Department of Neurology

Amy A. Smith, MD
Department of Pediatrics

 RESEARCH FACULTY

Frank J. Bova, PhD
Professor
Albert and Birdie Einstein Chair

Huan-Xin Chen, MD, PhD
Assistant Scientist

Didier A. Rajon, PhD
Assistant Scientist

Brent Reynolds, PhD
Associate Professor

Chester E. Sutterlin, MD
Adjunct Professor

Mu Yang, MS
Assistant-In

William A. Friedman, MD, A.L. Rhoton Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, was born in Dayton, Ohio on April 25, 1953. He attended high school in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated in 1970 as a National Merit Scholar and attended Oberlin College. There he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa before moving on to the Ohio State University College of Medicine. Before graduating summa cum laude from medical school in 1976, he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society and received the Maurice B. Rusoff Award for excellence in medicine. In 1976, Dr. Friedman moved to the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. He performed a surgical internship and a neurosurgical residency, from which he graduated in 1982. During residency training he did basic neurophysiology research as an NIH postdoctoral fellow (1 F32 NS0682-02). In 1982, he joined the faculty of the Department of Neurosurgery, as an Assistant Professor. He received an NIH Teacher Investigator Award (NS 00682-02), from July, 1982 - July, 1987, which funded further research into the basic neurophysiology of spinal cord injuries. In addition, this award supported the development of one of the first intraoperative neurophysiology monitoring laboratories, subsequently used to monitor thousands of neurosurgical and orthopedic surgical cases. Dr. Friedman served as Medical Director of the Intraoperative Neurophysiology Service from 1982-1992.

Dr. Friedman was promoted to Associate Professor and received tenure in August, 1987. In August, 1991 he was promoted to Professor. He currently serves as Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery and the A. L. Rhoton Professor of Neurosurgery. He is the author of more than 200 articles and book chapters and has written a book on radiosurgery. He is a member of numerous professional organizations. Most notably, he has served as President of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the Florida Neurosurgical Society and the International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society. He is the Past Editor of Neurosurgery On Call, the Internet homepage of organized neurosurgery.

In 1986, Dr. Friedman began collaborative work with Dr. Frank Bova, which led to the development of the University of Florida radiosurgery system. This system was subsequently patented by the University of Florida. The commercial version of the system has become one of the most popular radiosurgical systems worldwide. Drs. Friedman and Bova received the 1990 UF College of Medicine Clinical Research Prize in recognition of this accomplishment. Dr. Friedman is the leader of a multidisciplinary radiosurgery team which has treated over 2000 patients, published more than 100 papers and chapters, produced many international meetings, and educated hundreds of visiting physicians. This team is engaged in many ongoing research projects in the new radiosurgery/radiobiology laboratory in the UF McKnight Brain Institute. Most recently, they Drs. Bova and Friedman received an NIH R01 grant to support their research efforts.

Special Interests: Brain tumor surgery, Computer Assisted Stereotactic surgery, Radiosurgery

Email : friedman@neurosurgery.ufl.edu