Michael D. Fox, MD, PhD

Michael D. Fox, MD, PhD, is the founding Director of the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. He is also the inaugural Raymond D. Adams Distinguished Chair of Neurology and the Kaye Family Research Director of Psychiatric Brain Stimulation.

He completed a degree in Electrical Engineering at Ohio State University, an MD and PhD at Washington University in St. Louis, and Neurology Residency and Movement Disorders Fellowship at Mass Gen Brigham. Clinically, he specializes in the use of invasive and noninvasive brain stimulation for the treatment of neurological and psychiatric diseases.

Dr. Fox’s research focuses on developing new treatments for brain disease by understanding brain circuits, brain lesions, and the effects of neuromodulation. His papers have been cited over 46,000 times and he has won awards across the fields of neurology, psychiatry, and brain stimulation, including the inaugural Trailblazer Prize for Clinician Scientists from the NIH foundation.