
Alexandra Golby MD Professor of Neurosurgery
Brain & Spinal Tumor, Epilepsy Surgery, Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery
Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School
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75 Francis St# BwhBoston, MA 02115
Phone+1 617-525-8135
Fax+1 617-713-3050
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Education & Training
- Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford UniversityResidency, Neurological Surgery, 1995 - 2000
- Stanford University School of MedicineClass of 1995
Certifications & Licensure
- MA State Medical License 2002 - 2027
- CA State Medical License 1996 - 2026
- American Board of Neurological Surgery Neurological Surgery
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Boston Magazine Castle Connolly, 2011-2015
- Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2012
- Fellow (FAANS) American Association of Neurological Surgeons
Clinical Trials
- Navigated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Tumor Surgery Start of enrollment: 2009 Nov 01
- Assessment of Safety and Feasibility of ExAblate Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) Disruption Start of enrollment: 2019 Mar 26
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Benchmarking NousNav: quantifying the spatial accuracy and clinical performance of an affordable, open-source neuronavigation system.Colton Barr, Colin Galvin, Parikshit Juvekar, Erickson Torio, Samantha Horvath
International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. 2025-08-15 - Spatiotemporally constrained 3D reconstruction from biplanar digital subtraction angiography.Sarah Frisken, Vivek Gopalakrishnan, David Dimitris Chlorogiannis, Nazim Haouchine, Alexandre Cafaro
International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. 2025-08-01 - The superficial white matter in language processing: Broca's area connections are bilaterally associated with individual performance in children and adults.Shiva Hassanzadeh-Behbahani, Zhou Lan, Leo Zekelman, R Jarrett Rushmore, Yuqian Chen
Biorxiv. 2025-08-01
Journal Articles
- Original Article Neurosurgical Resection and Stereotactic Radiation Versus Stereotactic Radiation Alone in Patients with a Single or Solitary Brain MetastasisJohn G Phillips, Itai M Pashtan, Ayal A Aizer, Elizabeth B Claus, Shyam K Tanguturi, Daniel N Cagney, Brian M Alexander, Nayan Lamba, Alexandra J Golby, ScienceDirect
- Non-Rigid Registration of 3D Ultrasound for Neurosurgery Using Automatic Feature Detection and MatchingAlexandra Golby, MD, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
- Free Water Modeling of Peritumoral Edema Using Multi-Fiber Tractography: Application to Tracking the Arcuate Fasciculus for Neurosurgical PlanningAlexandra Golby, MD, PLoS One
Authored Content
- 3D Printing and Intraoperative Neuronavigation Tailoring for Skull Base Reconstruction After Extended Endoscopic Endonasal Surgery: Proof of Concept RelatedMarch 2018
Press Mentions
- Glioma Treatment May Benefit from Acoustic Biomarker–Guided BBB OpeningAugust 27th, 2025
- Scientists Develop Reliable Method to Measure Blood-Brain Barrier Opening with Focused UltrasoundAugust 25th, 2025
- Study Identifies Key Metric for Safe Blood Brain Barrier Opening in Glioblastoma PatientsAugust 24th, 2025
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- French
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