Matthew S. Willsey, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
About
Matthew Willsey attended medical school at Baylor College of Medicine and completed his neurosurgery residency at the University of Michigan in 2022. After graduation, he completed a one-year postgraduate appointment as a clinical instructor stereotactic/functional neurosurgery and epilepsy at Stanford University directed by Jaimie Henderson. His clinical interests include deep brain stimulation, MR-guided focused ultrasound, epilepsy and pain.
His research interests include brain-computer interfaces, neuromodulation and computational neuroscience. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from MIT with a focus in signal processing as well as a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan. In his clinical fellowship at Stanford University, which is a site for the BrainGate2 clinical trial, he continued to develop research interests in brain-computer interfaces at the Neural Prosthetics Translational Lab.