Dr. Fady Girgis

Biography

Fady Girgis is an associate professor of neurosurgery at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, specializing in functional neurosurgery, particularly deep brain stimulation for epilepsy, complex facial pain, brain tumors, and peripheral nerve surgery. He has extensive experience and expertise in neuromodulation, brain mapping, and awake brain surgery. Dr. Girgis teaches at the University of Calgary's medical school and is involved in residency training programs. He completed his bachelor's degree in pharmacy at the University of Toronto and practiced as a part-time pharmacist while finishing medical school at the University of Calgary. After his neurosurgical residency, he pursued a two-year post-doctoral research fellowship at Harvard Medical School and earned a master's degree in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He completed a clinical fellowship in functional neurosurgery at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, subsequently practicing for several years at the University of California Davis while obtaining a master's degree in clinical-translational medicine. Dr. Girgis later joined the University of Calgary to advance his practice and research in functional neurosurgery, with a focus on human intracranial cognitive neurophysiology, exploring social decision-making and psychological constructs through electrophysiological recordings. His work has significant implications for treating psychiatric and psychological disorders using neuromodulation techniques such as deep brain stimulation. Dr. Girgis is widely published and serves as a reviewer for several neurosurgical journals.

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