Steven Schiff
MD, PhD, FACS
Research Scientist; Vice Chair for Global Health, Neurosurgery; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
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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).
Education & Training
- Pediatric Neurosurgery FellowshipChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia (1990)
- Neurosurgery ResidencyDuke University (1989)
- PhDDuke University, Physiology (1985)
- General Surgery InternshipDuke University (1981)
- MDDuke University (1980)
Honors & Recognition
| Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
|---|---|---|
| NIH Director’s Transformative Award | 2018 | |
| Honorary African Name: Musaazi, Fumbe Clan | 2018 | |
| Fellow | American Epilepsy Society | 2016 |
| NIH Director’s Pioneer Award | 2015 | |
| Fellow | American Association for the Advancement of Science | 2012 |
| Fellow | American Association of Neurological Surgeons | 2010 |
| Fellow | American Physical Society | 2005 |
| Fellow | American College of Surgeons | 1994 |
| Diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgery | 1992 |
Professional Service
| Organization | Role | Date |
|---|---|---|
| AANS/CNS Joint Section on Pediatric Neurosurgery Executive Committee | Research Officer of the Chair’s Committee on Planning and Development | 2021 - Present |
| Scientific Advisory Board, Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, Marseilles, France | Member | 2019 - Present |
| Neural Computation | Associate Editor | 2015 - Present |
| US Food and Drug Administration | Neurological Devices Panel, Medical Devices Advisory Committee | 2013 - Present |
| Journal of Neural Engineering | Editorial Board Member | 2013 - Present |
| Physical Review X | Editorial Board Member | 2012 - 2018 |
| Journal of Computational Neuroscience | Action Editor | 2006 - Present |
| Physical Review Letters | Divisional Associate Editor | 2006 - 2012 |
| Physical Review E | Editorial Board Member | 2000 - 2005 |