UCL Queen Square Neurosurgery Seminar: Alexandra Golby

Alexandra J. Golby

Alexandra J. Golby is a Neurosurgeon, Director of Image-guided Neurosurgery, Co-director of the Advanced Multi-modality Image guided OR (AMIGO), and Director of the clinical fMRI service at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She is Professor of Neurosurgery and Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Golby holds the Haley Distinguished Chair in the Neurosciences at BWH. She is also Principal Investigator of Golby Lab, a surgical brain mapping laboratory. Dr. Golby has special clinical interests in brain surgery for patients with brain tumors and epilepsy, especially those lesions which are intimately associated with critical brain structures. Dr. Golby has authored over 150 peer reviewed publications. Her translational research is focused on advanced imaging and image guidance to improve care for patients undergoing intracranial neurosurgery. She has developed numerous technologies to help guide presurgical planning and intraoperative decision making. She works closely with scientists across many disciplines including computer science, applied mathematics, MR and ultrasound physics, and biomedical engineering and is very involved with mentoring young clinicians and scientists. Dr. Golby was recently named a Fulbright Global Scholar is pursuing work to foster interdisciplinary collaborations between technical experts and clinicians in host countries Rwanda and Morocco.