Nader Pouratian, MD PhD
Professor and Chair
UT Southwestern Medical Center · Dallas, Texas
About
Dr. Pouratian serves as Professor and Chair of Neurological Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center, serving as Lois C.A. and Darwin E. Smith Distinguished Chair in Neurological Surgery. Dr. Pouratian has built a comprehensive multidisciplinary NIH-funded academic clinical program. He brings extensive clinical expertise in the surgical management of movement disorders, psychiatric disease, and facial pain syndromes using brain stimulation, targeted ablation (including focused ultrasound), radiosurgery, and microsurgical techniques. His research aims to understand brain diseases and to develop targeted therapies. His academic programs takes advantage of neurosurgical opportunities to study human brain function and design novel neurotechnologies, with a focus on understanding of the network basis of neuropsychiatric disease and therapeutic brain stimulation. His NIH-funded work investigates basic human neuroscientific principles of movement regulation as well multiple diseases, including Parkinson disease, chronic pain, depression, anesthesia and consciousness, cardiac disease, and blindness.