William Stanley Anderson MD

Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

601 North Caroline StreetFloor 5Baltimore, MD 21287
Phone+1 410-955-6406
Fax+1 410-955-6402

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Education & Training

Johns Hopkins UniversityResidency, Neurological Surgery, 2002 - 2008
Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineInternship, Transitional Year, 2001 - 2002
Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineClass of 2001
Princeton UniversityPh.D., Physics, 1997
Princeton UniversityM.A., Physics, 1992

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Certifications & Licensure

MD State Medical License 2005 - 2028
VA State Medical License 2023 - 2028
MA State Medical License 2008 - 2011
American Board of Neurological Surgery Neurological Surgery

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory - Core EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2014-2017
CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory 2014 Certified EHR Suite, Epic Systems Corporation, 2014-2017
CMS Meaningful Use Stage 2 Certification Beacon Oncology 2014 Certified Module, Epic Systems Corporation, 2014-2017

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Diagnostic utility of bilateral stereoelectroencephalography sampling in temporal lobe epilepsy.
Martin A Merenzon, Kurt R Lehner, Jonathan Ho, Shovan Bhatia, Joon Y Kang
Journal of Neurosurgery. 2026-07-31
A computational framework for fitting biophysical basal-ganglia network models, applied to Parkinsonian beta oscillations.
Kavineshvar Ranak, William S Anderson
Journal of Neural Engineering. 2026-07-30
Surgical strategies after failed hemispheric disconnection surgery: A systematic review and individual-patient data analysis.
Daniel Sescu, Abdel-Rahman Abdel Fattah, Jose Araya Quezada, Burhanuddin Danish, Shenandoah Robinson
Seizure. 2026-07-02

Books/Book Chapters

Encyclopedia of Pain
Chapter: Thalamic bursting activity and chronic pain
Page 3869 - 3872Anderson WS, Liu CC, Weiss N, Lenz FAEditors: Schmidt RE and Gebhart G.Springer Verlag, BerlinEdition 2nd,2013
Encyclopedia of Pain
Chapter: Pain-related cells in human thalamus
Page 1708 - 1711Anderson WS, Liu CC, Shi CQ, Lenz FAEditors: Schmidt RE and Gebhart G.Springer Verlag, BerlinEdition 2nd,2013
Encyclopedia of Pain
Chapter: Pain-related plasticity of human thalamic receptive fields and projected fields
Page 3929 - 3933Weiss N, Liu CC, Anderson WS, Lenz FAEditors: Schmidt RE and Gebhart G.Springer Verlag, BerlinEdition 2nd,2013

Abstracts/Posters

Study of seizure onset and propagation using intracranial EEG recorded using micro-electrodes
Basu I, Anderson W, American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting, 1/1/2013
State dynamics of the epileptic brain and the influence of seizure focus paper type
Sarma S, Burns S, Santaniello S, Anderson WS, Computational and Systems Neuroscience, 1/1/2013
Gamma band activity in the human parahippocampal gyrus predicts performance in a sequence task
Madhavan R, Tang H, Millman D, Crone N, Madsen J, Anderson WS, Kreiman G, Computational and Systems Neuroscience, 1/1/2013

Lectures

DBS for essential tremor: Frameless and iMRI options
Sheraton Baltimore North, Towson, MD - 10/1/2013
Clinical and therapeutic implications of cortical neural network modeling
Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD (2013) - 8/20/2013
Update on new deep brain stimulation studies
8/15/2013

Other

Oscillatory dynamics of single human neurons during propofol-induced loss of consciousness
Lewis LD, Weiner VS, Mukamel EA, Donoghue JA, Eskandar EN, Hochberg L, Madsen JR, Anderson WS, Cash SS, Brown EN, Purdon PL

Press Mentions

Brain-Computer Interface Restores Control of Home Devices for Johns Hopkins Patient with ALSOctober 26th, 2023
Brain-Computer Interface Restores Control of Home Devices for Johns Hopkins Patient with ALSNovember 5th, 2023