H. Isaac Chen, MD
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About us
My primary interest as a neurosurgeon-scientist is the restoration of function after the brain has been damaged. From the clinical side, I work in the areas of neurotrauma, functional neurosurgery (i.e., deep brain stimulation and epilepsy surgery), and the resection of tumors in and around eloquent brain tissue. I am interested in clinical trials examining new methods for restoring brain function, mapping brain activity after injury, and bringing new technologies such as augemented reality into the operating room. I also run a translational laboratory focused on rebuilding the circuitry of the brain using a combination of techniques drawn from stem cell biology, neural tissue engineering, and neural interface technologies.
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| Languages | Mandarin Chinese |
| Services | anterior temporal lobectomy, awake craniotomy, biopsy of brain, biopsy of skull, brain cancer genomics, brain surgery, burr hole, cerebral decompression, cervical decompression, chiari decompression, corpus callosotomy, cortical mapping, craniectomy, craniotomy, csf shunt removal, deep brain stimulation, deep brain stimulation (asleep), deep brain stimulation (awake), deep brain stimulation for dystonia, electrocorticography, endoscopic third ventriculostomy, epilepsy surgery, epilepsy surgery evaluation, hemispherectomy, intraoperative mri, intraventricular endoscopy, lobectomy of brain, microneurosurgery, microsurgery, microvascular decompression, neuroablation, neuroendoscopy, parkinson's disease (pd) surgery, repair of brain, stereotactic brain biopsy, stereotactic eeg, subpial transection, topectomy, vagal nerve stimulator, vagal stimulation, ventricular shunt, ventriculo peritoneal shunt, ventriculostomy, visualase thermal laser ablation |
| Video | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqe42aTjOoE |