Patrick J. Kelly, FACS, is a neurosurgeon in

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. He is Professor and Chairman of the Department of

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. He has operated on almost 7,000 brain tumors and is considered an authority in the fields of brain tumor surgery, stereotactic neurosurgery and computer application in neurosurgery. He has received

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's Olivecrona Prize, the World Federation of Neurological Societies' Scoville Achievement Award and the Irish Sir Peter Freyer Medal. He has authored more than 230 scientific and clinical papers and book chapters and serves on the editorial boards of several scientific journals: Neurosurgery, Surgical Neurology, Journal of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery and Neurological Research.

Memberships

He is founder and president of the Brain Tumor Foundation. He is president of Re-Wired for Life Foundation, a non-profit foundation for patients undergoing deep brain stimulation and neuroaugmentative procedure

He is past president of the American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery and Vice-President of the World Society for Stereoencephalotomy. He was formerly a member of the medical advisory council of the Association for Brain Tumor Research, now known as the American Brain Tumor Association.

References

Leadership page at Brain Tumor Foundation
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kelly, Patrick J. Living people American neurosurgeons New York University Grossman School of Medicine faculty University at Buffalo alumni Year of birth missing (living people)