John Rolston
Associate Professor
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Rolston is an NIH-funded neurosurgeon and neuroscientist with 17 years of experience translating human electrophysiology and neuromodulation research into clinical care. As an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and attending neurosurgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Mass General Brigham, he specializes in minimally invasive epilepsy surgery, deep brain stimulation, focused ultrasound, and trigeminal neuralgia. He trained at UCSF for residency and completed MD/PhD work at Emory/Georgia Tech, building on an undergraduate foundation in computer science from Columbia. His work bridges rigorous basic science and high-impact clinical innovation, exemplified by running federally funded studies that inform surgical neuromodulation techniques. Colleagues note his uncommon combination of computational training and hands-on operative expertise, which informs novel approaches to human electrophysiology. Based in Boston, he leverages academic leadership and cross-disciplinary collaboration to advance both patient care and neuroscience discovery.
17 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
M.D., M.D. at Emory University School of MedicinePh.D. Neuroscience, Ph.D. Neuroscience at Emory UniversityB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Columbia UniversityResidency Neurosurgery, Residency Neurosurgery at University of California, San Francisco
English
Github Skills (7)
connectivity9
computational-neuroscience9
electrophysiology9
closed9
neuroscience8
neuroimaging7
python7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
rzellertownson/neurorighter
Jan 2009 - Dec 2009
Closed Loop, Open Source Electrophysiology
Contributions:106 commits in 10 months
connectivityneuroimagingpythonneuroscienceclosed
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