Neurosurgery

Alex Schüpper is a second year neurosurgery resident at Mount Sinai in NYC. He grew up outside Philadelphia, and went to Johns Hopkins for his undergraduate education, where he studied neuroscience and played collegiate baseball. He moved across the country to California to receive his M.D. at UC San Diego School of Medicine, where he worked in the prestigious lab of Dr. Bob Carter, conducting malignant glioma resesrch. Now back on the east coast, Dr....

Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, commonly known as Dr. Q, came to the United States as at the age of 19 as an undocumented and unable to speak English. He first started to work as a farmhand in Central Valley, California, picking fruits and vegetables. He saved enough money to take English classes at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, CA. He subsequently discovered his love and talent for science and decided to continue his studies at...

Dr. Mark D. Krieger is a professor of neurological surgery at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. He is also the surgeon-in-chief and a senior vice president at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) where he holds the Billy and Audrey Wilder Chair in Neurosurgery. He obtained his undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Harvard College in Neurobiology in 1988 and received his MD from the College of Physicians and Surgeons...

Keaton Piper is a functional neurosurgeon who completed my undergraduate training at the University of Arkansas, followed by medical school at the University of Rochester, residency at the University of South Florida, and fellowship training at the University of California, San Francisco. His research focuses on novel surgical and neuromodulatory treatments for refractory pain, an understudied area within neurosurgery, with particular emphasis on trigeminal neuralgia, Chiari-related pain, and atypical facial pain. In parallel, he has...