Gerald Grant

Dr. Gerald Grant, MD, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and, by courtesy, of Neurology at Stanford University. He is a member of the Stanford Cancer Institute, Child Health Research Institute and Bio-X at Stanford and is the Division Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Stanford Children’s.

Dr. Grant received his B.S. degree in Neurosciences and German from Duke and his MD from Stanford University. He also served active duty with the US Air Force and was deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. During his deployment, Dr. Grant was the Consultant for Neurosurgery, Operation Iraqi Freedom, 30th Med Brigade, US Army and developed the first prospective study in a combat zone on blast concussive injury. The conclusions from this study in part were published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2007. Dr. Grant attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and was awarded a Meritorious Service Medal prior to his separation. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgery and is also board certified in Pediatric Neurosurgery by the American Board of Pediatric Neurological Surgery.

Dr. Grant was recruited from Duke to Stanford in 2013. He has a specialized clinical interest in head trauma and concussion and his translational laboratory efforts focus on molecular characterization of the blood-brain barrier currently funded by the NIH (NINDS). Dr. Grant was Director of Neurotrauma at Duke and is the Principal Investigator for the Duke Site on a Department of Defense Traumatic Brain Injury and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Consortium. Dr. Grant holds several executive positions in national organizations, which include the National Committee on Trauma in the American College of Surgeons, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, American Association of Pediatric Neurosurgeons, and the Joint Section of Pediatric Neurosurgery. He is on the editorial board for Neurosurgery and Surgical Neurology International.