Board Member
Pediatric Neurosurgeon, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Michael Dewan, MD, MSCI, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery at Vanderbilt. Dr. Dewan has been conducting education and research activities in East Africa since 2005. Over the years, he has helped train more than a dozen neurosurgeons in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. He earned his MD from Yale and completed his residency in Neurological Surgery at Vanderbilt. He served as the 2016 Paul Farmer Global Neurosurgery Fellow at the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change at Harvard Medical School and as Pediatric Neurosurgery Chief Fellow at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. He is the Surgical Director of the Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, and Pediatric Neurovascular Programs, as well as the Academic Director of the Global Neurosurgery Program at Vanderbilt.