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Baptist Health Doc-to-Doc
Breaking Barriers With Focused Ultrasound
Join Drs. Michael McDermott and Nir Lipsman as they discuss focused ultrasound in neuroscience, how it started and the clinical research that brings us to where we are today and what the future holds.
Presenters:
Michael McDermott, M.D.
Chief Medical Executive, Baptist Health Miami Neuroscience Institute
Irma & Kalman Bass Endowed Chair in Clinical Neuroscience
Nir Lipsman, M.D.
Harquail Chair in Neuromodulation, University of Toronto and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Director, Harquail Centre for Neuromodulation, Sunnybrook
Michael McDermott, M.D., is a neurosurgeon and the chief medical executive of Baptist Health Miami Neuroscience Institute. He is a world-renowned leader in neurosciences and has clinical expertise in the field of meningioma surgery and Gamma Knife radiosurgery.
Nir Lipsman, M.D., is a neurosurgeon, scientist and Director of Harquail Centre for Neuromodulation at Sunnybrook and associate professor in the department of surgery at the University of Toronto. Dr. Lipsman helped lead Canada’s first clinical trials of FUS in essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease, and is developing trials investigating FUS in obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, and Alzheimer’s disease.