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Steven Schiff, MD, PhD, FACS

Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery, Vice Chair for Global Health, Department of Neurosurgery, Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
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Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

Affiliated Faculty, Yale Program for Biomedical Ethics

Affiliated Faculty, Yale Interdepartmental Program in Neuroscience

Member, Yale Center for Brain and Mind Health

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Titles

Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery, Vice Chair for Global Health, Department of Neurosurgery, Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases

Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Program for Biomedical Ethics; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Interdepartmental Program in Neuroscience; Member, Yale Center for Brain and Mind Health

Biography

Dr. Steven Schiff is a pediatric neurosurgeon with interests in neural control engineering, sustainable health engineering and global health. He founded the Center for Neural Engineering at Penn State University, wrote the first book on Neural Control Engineering (MIT Press, 2012), and is now developing the Center for Global Neurosurgery at Yale University. He received the NIH Director’s Pioneer and Transformative Awards in 2015 and 2018, respectively, which have enabled him to pursue his interests in the sustainable control of infant infections in the developing world. This work has evolved into an exploration of what Schiff calls Predictive Personalized Public Health (P3H), and included leading the discovery of a new highly lethal infant brain disease in Africa - Neonatal Paenibacilliosis.

Appointments

Education & Training

Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellowship
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (1990)
Neurosurgery Residency
Duke University (1989)
PhD
Duke University, Physiology (1985)
General Surgery Internship
Duke University (1981)
MD
Duke University (1980)

Research

Overview

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Africa South of the Sahara; Asia, Southeastern; Bacteria; Brain Diseases; Central Nervous System Infections; Coinfection; Meningomyelocele; Neonatal Sepsis; Neural Tube Defects; Paraguay; Viruses

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Steven Schiff's published research.

Publications

2024

2023

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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    Journal of Computational Neuroscience

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    Journal of Neural Engineering

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    Neural Computation

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    US Food and Drug Administration

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    Scientific Advisory Board

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Neurosurgery

333 Cedar Street, TMP 413

New Haven, Connecticut 06510

United States