Richard S. Zimmerman, MD, completed a residency in neurosurgery followed by a fellowship in cerebrovascular and skull base surgery. He has focused his patient-centered clinical practice on the following: Surgical options to treat severe facial pain (trigeminal neuralgia) Microsurgical treatment of hemifacial spasm As a leading member of Mayo's Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, provides individualized surgical options for patients with seizures including minimally invasive laser ablation, responsive neurostimulation (RNS), vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) and intracranial monitoring Microsurgical treatment of aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations and carotid artery disease Surgery for brain tumors, including minimally invasive laser ablation Dr. Zimmerman's expertise has been recognized nationally and internationally, and he serves on the medical advisory boards of the Epilepsy Foundation and the TNA — Facial Pain Association. As a professor of neurosurgery, he knows the importance of educating the physicians of the future, and Dr. Zimmerman chairs the Mayo Clinic Education Committee and serves as medical director of education. As nothing is more important to him than excellent patient outcomes, he also chairs the Quality Outcomes Subcommittee, and has received Mayo Clinic's Lifetime Achievement Award for his career-long dedication to quality improvement and patient safety activities at Mayo Clinic.
William P. Cheshire, MD, is a neurologist at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, who evaluates and treats trigeminal neuralgia and disorders of the autonomic nervous system. Dr. Cheshire received his artium baccalaureus in biochemical sciences cum laude from Princeton University, his Master of Arts in bioethics summa cum laude from Trinity International University, and his medical degree from West Virginia University. He completed his neurology residency and pain fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Cheshire leads the Program in Professionalism & Values at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville in collaboration with colleagues across the Mayo Clinic enterprise. He has also chaired the Medical Ethics Committee at Mayo Clinic and is a past president of the staff. The neurology residents and fellows recognized him as teacher of the year in 2015. Nationally, Dr. Cheshire is a past president of the American Autonomic Society, past chair of the Autonomic Nervous System Section of the American Academy of Neurology, past chair of the Grievance Committee of the American Academy of Neurology, associate editor of Clinical Autonomic Research, and has served as a guest editor for Autonomic Neuroscience.
Dr. Grewal's primary interests are centered around translational science in epilepsy and movement disorders. This work includes basic science research on advanced stem cell techniques, as well as clinical trials for gene therapy and new indications for neuromodulation.
Fredric B. Meyer, MD, is a consultant and professor of neurologic surgery. He is enterprise chair of the Department of Neurologic Surgery at Mayo Clinic and is recognized with the distinction of a named professorship, the Alfred Uihlein Family Professorship of Neurologic Surgery. He is currently the Juanita Kious Waugh Executive Dean of Education of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science and dean of the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine. Dr. Meyer specializes in the treatment of complex brain tumors of all types, including glioma, pituitary, third ventricular and skull base tumors. He is also recognized as an expert in the treatment of cerebrovascular disease, including moyamoya disease, cavernomas, AVMs, aneurysms and carotid surgery. He treats a large number of hemifacial spasm patients as well as epilepsy patients in collaboration with his neurology colleagues.
The research of Jamie J. Van Gompel, M.D., complements his clinical focus and fellowship training in the neurosurgical treatment of pituitary tumors, vestibular schwannomas, skull base tumors, as well as epilepsy. Dr. Van Gompel publishes on clinical outcome projects centered on pituitary tumors, esthesioneuroblastomas, acoustic neuromas (vestibular schwannomas), meningiomas, chordomas, chondrosarcomas, spontaneous cerebral spinal fluid leaks, as well as skull base anatomy and approaches. Dr. Van Gompel works collaboratively with colleagues from Mayo Clinic's Epilepsy and Neurophysiology Lab, participating in clinical work relative to brain stimulation as an alternative restorative therapy for epilepsy rather than ablative or resective surgery. Dr. Van Gompel's overall research goal is to develop the safest and most effective treatments for people with pituitary and skull base tumors. He is further involved in developing surgical options for patients with medically and, in some cases, surgically resistant epilepsy.
Dr. Peris Celda is an Associate Professor in neurosurgery who specializes in complex brain and skull base tumors and other neurosurgical cranial conditions. She is devoted to offer an individualized treatment to each patient including open, minimally invasive, and endoscopic techniques in order to maximize surgical resection and achieve surgical goals preserving quality of life. Following her surgical anatomy fellowship under world-renowned neurosurgeon Professor A.L. Rhoton, Dr. Peris Celda's research interests have focused on the development of safer surgical techniques and approaches based on a detailed surgical anatomy knowledge. Dr. Peris Celda's neurosurgical anatomy laboratory team comprises fellows of different backgrounds, national and international, who are deeply committed to surgical education and to advance the surgical techniques towards safer, more accurate surgeries.
W. Richard Marsh, MD, is a neurosurgeon. He is a professor of neurosurgery in the Department of Neurosurgery and is the Mayo Midwest Spine Care Network director and director of the Spine Center in Rochester, Minnesota. His interests include degenerative spine disease, epilepsy and general neurosurgery.
Bruce E. Pollock, MD, is a board-certified neurological surgeon who has been on staff at Mayo Clinic's Rochester, Minnesota, campus since 1997. His clinical focus includes: Surgical management of trigeminal neuralgia, including microvascular decompression, glycerol rhizotomy, balloon compression procedures and stereotactic radiosurgery Gamma Knife radiosurgery for a wide variety of benign and malignant brain tumors, vascular malformations, and trigeminal neuralgia In addition to his clinical activities, Dr. Pollock is active in clinical research on trigeminal neuralgia, arteriovenous malformations, pituitary adenomas, meningiomas and brain metastases.
Sign up for our main newsletter
Connect on social
© 2002-2024 The Facial Pain Association, All rights reserved.
