Jeff G. Ojemann, MD

Jeff Ojemann is a neurosurgeon with a practice focusing on the surgical treatment of epilepsy in adults and children. He is Director of Epilepsy Surgery at the Harborview Medical Center and Seattle Children’s Hospital at the University of Washington. He received his MD in 1992 at Washington University in St. Louis, and remained there for residency in neurosurgery (1999) and fellowship in pediatric neurosurgery at St. Louis Children’s Hospital in 2000. He joined the faculty at the University of Washington in 2003 and holds the Richard G. Ellenbogen Chair in Pediatric Neurological Surgery. He has been funded by NIH or NSF continuously since then with present focus on electrical stimulation and current distribution in human and animal models of cortical surface stimulation. He has over 165 peer-reviewed publications, primarily in neuroimaging and human cortical physiology. He is the co-leader of the Cortical co-adaptation with bidirectional brain-computer interface testbed of the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (a NSF Engineering Research Center).