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Matthew Willsey, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery

Location

1500 E Medical Center Dr

Ann Arbor, MI, 48109

Biography and Education

Matthew Willsey attended MIT, where he received B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering with a research focus in digital signal processing. He later attended medical school at Baylor College of Medicine and completed his neurosurgery residency at the University of Michigan in 2022. During his residency, he completed an enfolded CAST-approved fellowship in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery and a PhD under Drs. Parag Patil and Cynthia Chestek during his resident research time plus an additional leave-of-absence year. After graduation, he completed a one-year, post-graduate appointment as a clinical instructor stereotactic/functional neurosurgery and epilepsy at Stanford University directed by Dr. Jaimie Henderson. 

Research Interests

His clinical interests include deep brain stimulation, MR-guided focused ultrasound, epilepsy, pain. His research interests include brain-computer interfaces, neuromodulation, and computational neuroscience.