University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy

Stanford University School of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

Abington High School

Board Certified, Brain and Spine Surgery

Pleasanton, California, United States

Mercy General Hospital

Neurosurgery Hospitalist

A new, general neurosurgery practice providing emergency care to patients at Mercy General and surrounding hospitals.  We provide comprehensive brain and spine care for inpatients and outpatients.

Dignity Health

Attending Neurosurgeon

Works with Fred Kinder, Eric Pifer, MD, and Joy Pao, MD.  Developing and deploying a new model for health care using patient centered records, comprehensive registries, outcome measures, and cutting edge technology.  A joint, Sino-American project.

World Class Healthcare

Vice President of Spine and Telemedicine

Part time/Call coverage.  Care for critically ill neurosurgery patients.  Teaching residents and fellows at DC's leading trauma center.I have been blessed with the opportunity to work with surgeons at a great many institutions.  Howard University Hospital is an amazing place.  Howard provides incredible care to a population in need with a kind, caring, and supportive corporate culture.See <a href="http://huhealthcare.com/healthcare/hospital">http://huhealthcare.com/healthcare/hospital</a>.

Northern California Neurosurgery Medical Group, Inc.

A start-up which is developing a suite of products for marketing medical practices, surgery centers, and small hospitals.  We developed and now lease a unique navigation tool to access custom medical content.  We provide practice development consulting and custom web sites.

CTO, Medical Content and Web Services Provider

Consulting for defense and plaintiff legal firms, industry, and governmental agencies.   Assist hospitals with internal audits.  Provide guidance regarding quality assurance, malpractice issues, medical board issues, fraud and abuse, false-claims self-reporting, billing and coding compliance, and utilization review.  Work as a retained expert for IROs and insurance carriers. Assess cases and educate attorneys and carriers with cases involving neuro-trauma, degenerative and traumatic spinal injury, and other neurosurgical issues.

Medical Expert

Trauma neurosurgery and emergency coverage.

Memorial Hospital of South Bend

Neuro-trauma and spine coverage for level 2 trauma center.Regional is an amazing trauma center and referral hospital staffed by dedicated and caring physicians and nurses.  Regional cares for a rural population including under-served native American communities.See <a href="http://www.regionalhealth.com/">http://www.regionalhealth.com/</a>.

Regional Health

Enloe Medical Center

As seen at NASS in Chicago and Spine Week in Singapore.Ludwig medical is a start-up company offering the first of a series of unique, disposable instruments to decrease improve surgical visualization, eliminate the need for an assistant in many spine procedures, and cut operative time.I provide product testing and marketing for this unique dissector with integral suction (medical device).  This simple instrument is intended for spine surgeons, neurosurgeons, and orthapedic surgeons.See <a href="http://www.surgerysister.com">http://www.surgerysister.com</a>.

Ludwig Medical

Advisor

General neurosurgery and trauma neurosurgery at the Central Valley's busiest and best County Hospital.  Clinical research in head trauma, normal pressure hydrocephalus, thoraco-lumbar fractures, and cocci meningitis.  We have the world's largest cohort of cocci patients.  Contact me using my cell phone, 510-928-2323.

Kern Medical

Presented at NASS in Chicago and to be demonstrated at Spine Week in Singapore.  This device is a  robotic cerebrospinal fluid drainage system (medical device) that reduces complications and dramatically decreases inpatient costs.  It is intended for base of skull surgeons, spine surgeons, and vascular surgeons.I provide marketing assistance and product research for BeckerSmith's FlowSafeTM.  See <a href="http://www.beckersmithmedical.com/">http://www.beckersmithmedical.com/</a>.

BeckerSmith Medical, Inc.

Habit Dx provides medical diagnostic solutions for several common neurological, psychiatric, and neuro-degeneratvie conditions:  Alzheimers, Parkinson's, Schizophrenia, sports related concussive head injuries,and others.  With my computer science experience and my 30 years of clinical neuroscience and neuroscience research, I am providing assistance in organizing and managing clinical trials, FDA submissions, medical product development, and medical marketing.

Habit DX Inc.

BTO develops Web 3.0 compliant software solutions.  I have helped them develop a line of healthcare products.  AgileMD is a Web 3.0, Telemedicine Workspace; an innovative, powerful, and intuitive solution that enables providers to securely access patient data, and to evaluate patients and collaborate with co-workers, using video conferencing, through a single pane-of-glass solution from any PC with a Web browser.  NextThink is a unique network management tool that is ideally suited to mission-critical medical networks.  It maximizes up time by predicting possible failures.

BTO Group

Advisor and Director, Healthcare Consulting Practice

Responsible for trauma, spine, and cranial neurosurgery for Alaska Native customer-owners.

Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC)

Responsible for the day-to-day operations of the CyberKnife radiosurgery program.  Performed consultations, planned and supervised treatments, conducted clinical research, and trained residents and non-physician staff.  Assisted in the development of new clinical protocols and performed clinical research, including in neuro-oncology and the psychiatric applications of CyberKnife technology.

Stanford University Medical Center

Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Trauma surgeon, neurosurgeon, and spine specialist at this major county teaching hospital affiliated with Stanford University Medical Center.  Responsible for all aspects of patient care, including neuro-trauma, neuro-critical care, spinal medicine and surgery, neuor-oncology, pain, pediatric neurosurgery, neuro-vascular surgery, and infectious disease.

Santa Clara Valley Medical Center

Supervised all aspects of pain management from a quality of care standpoint.

ValleyCare Health System

Chairman, Pain Improvement Committee

Superivised biomedical ethics department and investigational review board.  Controlled committee responsible for ethical dilemmas involving patient care.  Evaluated and approved or denied applications for research protocols at our institution.

Chairman, Ethics Committee and Investigational Review Board

Supervised departmental functions including quality of care, utilization of services, and interractions with other departments and hospital administration.

Assistant Chief of Surgery

Member of steering committee for large, multispecialty, surgery center responsible for operative and perioperative care of patients needing surgical operations.

TriValley Surgery Center

Medical Executive Committee

Multispecialty spine and pain practice in Fremont and Pleasanton, CA.  I managed up to seven employed physicians and up to 50 non-physician employees.  As a general neurosurgeon, I was responsible for trauma, neuro-oncology, neuro-vascular, and minimally invasive neurosurgery.  I specialized in spinal medicine, complex spinal surgery, and pain management.

Robert Lieberson, MD, MHA, FAANS