Sameer Sheth, MD, PhD
Director
Director, The Gordon and Mary Cain Pediatric Foundation Research Laboratories
Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine
Cullen Foundation Endowed Chair, Baylor College of Medicine
McNair Scholar, Baylor College of Medicine
Director, Psychiatric Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine
Surgical Director, Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Baylor College of Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
Principal Investigator, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute
Baylor Department
Neurosurgery
Education
Fellowship and Residency, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School/, Neurological Surgery, 2011 and 2012
Internship, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School/, General Surgery, 2006
MD, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 2005
PhD, University of California Los Angeles, Neuroscience, 2003
BA, Harvard University, Physics and Astronomy & Astrophysics, 1998
Employment History
2022 – Present - Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
2022 – Present – Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
2022 – Present – Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
2022 – Present - Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX
2022 – Present - Director, The Gordon and Mary Cain Pediatric Neurology Research Foundation Laboratories, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX
2018 – Present - Vice-Chair of Research, Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
2018 – Present - Neurosurgeon, Surgery Service Line, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX
2018 – 2022 - Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
2019 – 2022 - Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX
2019 – 2022 - Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
2018 – 2022 - Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
2013 – 2018 - Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, Columbia University
2012 – 2012 - Instructor, Department of Neurosurgery, Director, North Neurosurgical Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, Harvard Medical School
Awards
2023 - Plenary Lecture, NIH BRAIN Investigators Annual Meeting
2023 - Plenary Lecture, Society of Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting
2023 - Grand Rounds, Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Canada, Department of Neurology
2022 - Visiting Professor, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, Department of Neurology
2022 - Grand Rounds, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, Department of Neurology
2022 - Visiting Professor, New York University, New York, NY, Department of Psychiatry
2022 - Inducted into American Academy of Neurological Surgery
2022 - Visiting Professor, State University of New York, Syracuse, NY, Department of Neurosurgery
2021 - BRAIN Initiative Show Us Your BRAINs Photo and Video Contest, 1st Place Video
2021 - Visiting Professor (Virtual), University of Pennsylvania, Department of Neurosurgery
2021 - Visiting Professor (Virtual), University of California San Francisco, Department of Neurosurgery
2021 - Visiting Professor (Virtual), Northwestern University, Department of Neurosurgery
2021 - Visiting Professor (Virtual), Cornell University, Department of Psychiatry
2020 - Advisory Council, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
2020 - Multi-Council Working Group, NIH BRAIN Initiative
2022 - NIH BRAIN Initiative Neuroethics Working Group
2020 - Chair, Scientific Program Committee, Biennial Meeting of the (Virtual) American Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
2019 - Grand Rounds (Virtual), Cleveland Clinic, Department of Neurosciences
2019 - Visiting Professor (Virtual), University of California Los Angeles, Department of Neurosurgery
2019 - Visiting Professor, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, Department of Neurosurgery
2019 - CNS Vanguard Leadership Course
2018 - Visiting Professor, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Department of Psychiatry
2018 - McNair Scholar, Baylor College of Medicine
Research Interest
Deep Brain Stimulation to treat epilepsy and other neuropsychiatric disorders