Jamshid Ghajar

Dr. Jamshid Ghajar is a Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of the Stanford Concussion and Brain Performance Center. He is the Founder and President of the Brain Trauma Foundation, and serves as a fellow on the Committee on Trauma (American College of Surgeons). Under his leadership, the Stanford Concussion and Brain Performance Center aims to improve outcomes for TBI patients by developing best practice guidelines and education, and conducting clinical research. He invented several neurosurgical devices used around the world, and served as Chief of Neurosurgery at The Jamaica Hospital-Cornell Trauma Center in New York for 25 years. He holds an MD and Ph.D. from Cornell University Medical College.