Chair of Neurosurgery
University of Louisville, Kentucky
Joseph Neimat grew up in the Washington, D.C. area. He studied at Dartmouth College and Duke University. Dr. Neimat completed his residency in Neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a fellowship in Neuromodulation surgery at the University of Toronto.
In 2006, he joined the Department of Neurosurgery at Vanderbilt University, where he was Director of Epilepsy and a founding member of the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering. In 2016, Dr. Neimat transitioned to the University of Louisville, where he serves as Chairman of Neurological Surgery.
Dr. Neimat's clinical interests include the surgical treatment of movement disorders, the treatment of epilepsy, novel therapies for disorders of mood and behavior, and the multi-modality treatment of complex pain. Additionally, he runs a collaborative research lab exploring cognitive and emotional processing in cortical and subcortical structures. The lab uses the opportunity of deep brain stimulation (DBS) and epilepsy surgeries to evaluate the response of neuronal ensembles to novel stimuli that task cognitive and emotional processing.
Dr. Neimat has served on the Board of Directors for the American and World Societies for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (ASSFN and WSSFN). He is the immediate Past-President of the ASSFN.
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