Michael Bret Schneider MD

Summary

• Bret Schneider specializes in neuromodulation technologies for interventional psychiatry, neurology and regenerative medicine. He earned a BA cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis, an MD degree from Rush University in Chicago, and graduated a clinical residency in Psychiatry at UCLA. He subsequently completed a post-doctoral fellowship in neurosurgical stereotactic radiosurgery and a post-doctoral fellowship in Advanced Psychiatry, both at Stanford University. He then served as Staff Scientist in the laboratory of Karl Deisseroth, where he developed new technologies and techniques to enable precise and focal optogenetic control of brain circuits. For more than two decades, Bret has been an active medical device developer and holds numerous patents. He has designed and prototyped more than one hundred medical instruments, from computerized surgical navigation systems to implantable devices and biologics; technologies running across the gamut of medical disciplines. Bret is presently Chief Medical Officer for Zap Surgical Systems, developing stereotactic radiosurgery as a tool for non-invasive neuromodulation, "radiomodulation". He is Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosurgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine.