Ashwin Viswanathan, M.D.
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Positions
- Professor
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Neurosurgery
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US
- Director of Functional Neurosurgery
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Baylor College of Medicine
- Medical Director
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Neurosurgery
Baylor College of Medicine
- Neurosurgery Service Chief
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Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center
- Faculty Senator
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Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States
Addresses
- Baylor St. Luke's McNair Campus (Clinic)
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7200 Cambridge, 9th Floor
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (713) 798-4696
- Baylor St. Luke's McNair Campus (Office)
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7200 Cambridge, 9th Floor
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (713) 798-4696
Education
- MD from Baylor College of Medicine
- Houston, Texas United States
- Internship at Baylor College of Medicine
- Houston, Texas United States
- General Surgery
- Residency at Baylor College of Medicine
- Houston, Texas United States
- Neurosurgery
- Fellowship at Oregon Health Science University Medical School Affiliate Hospitals
- Portland, Oregon United States
Professional Interests
- Deep Brain Stimulation
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
- Cancer Pain
Professional Statement
As a physician who is fellowship trained in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, my clinical practice focuses on deep brain stimulation, trigeminal neuralgia, cancer pain, and chronic pain. My research interests include local field potential analysis to optimize deep brain stimulator implantation, and determining the spinal mechanisms which underlie pain transmission.Websites
Funding
- Percutaneous Cordotomy for Pain Palliation in Advanced Cancer Grant funding from NIH R01
- Novel Stimulation Patterns to Improve the Effectiveness of Spinal Cord Stimulation Grant funding from NIH UG3/UH3
- Oscillatory Neural Correlates of Motor Phenotypes in Parkinson Disease Grant funding from NIH R01
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