Nathan Rowland, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Medical University of South Carolina · Charleston, South Carolina
About
Nathan C. Rowland, MD, PhD, FAANS, FACS is a neurosurgeon at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), where he holds the Marino Family Endowed Chair in Functional and Restorative Neurosurgery and is Associate Professor in the Departments of Neurosurgery, Neurology and Health Sciences Research. His other roles include Executive Director and co-founder of the MUSC Institute for Neuroscience Discovery (MIND), Associate Program Director of the Neurosurgical Residency Program, and Surgical Director of the MUSC Focused Ultrasound Program. Dr. Rowland is an Assistant Editor for the Functional Neurosurgery Section of Operative Neurosurgery and a member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Foundation Board.
Dr. Rowland received his Bachelor of Science in Biology from Morehouse College and went on to receive an MD and PhD from Emory University. He completed his neurosurgical residency at the University of California, San Francisco, his postdoctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley, and functional neurosurgical fellowship training at the University of Toronto. Dr. Rowland’s areas of specialty include motor control physiology in Parkinson’s disease and chronic stroke, neuromodulation for stroke recovery and post-stroke pain, and deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant depression, including serving as site co-Investigator of the TRANSCEND clinical trial at MUSC.