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R. Mark Richardson, MD, Neurosurgery, Boston, MA, Massachusetts General Hospital

R.Mark RichardsonMDPhD

Neurosurgery Boston, MA

Epilepsy Surgery, Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery

Director of Functional Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School

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Summary

  • Dr. Richardson completed the MD-PhD program at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Medical College of Virginia and neurosurgical residency at the University of California, San Francisco. His clinical expertise includes both awake and asleep DBS for movement disorders, psychiatric indications, and epilepsy, awake brain mapping, robotic-assisted surgery for both stereo-EEG and DBS implantation, and Responsive Neurostimulation for epilepsy. Prior to joining Mass General, Dr. Richardson was Director of the Epilepsy and Movement Disorders Surgery Program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). There, he established one of the world's leading intraoperative-MRI functional neurosurgery programs, encompassing DBS for movement disorders, gene therapy clinical trials for Parkinson’s disease, and laser thermal ablation for epilepsy, work which now continues at MGH.

    Dr. Richardson is recognized internationally for his work, having published numerous related papers and book chapters, and frequently speaking at national and international meetings. He is a member of the Executive Board of the American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery.

    Dr. Richardson also is a neuroscientist who founded the Brain Modulation Lab, which conducts human systems neuroscience research using intracranial recording and stimulation.

Education & Training

  • University of California (San Francisco)
    University of California (San Francisco)Residency, Neurological Surgery, 2005 - 2011
  • Medical College of Virginia
    Medical College of VirginiaPhD, 1999 - 2005
  • Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
    Virginia Commonwealth University School of MedicineClass of 2005
  • Medical College of Virginia
    Medical College of VirginiaMSc, Physiology, 1997 - 1999
  • University of Virginia
    University of VirginiaB.A., Environmental Sciences, 1993 - 1997

Certifications & Licensure

  • ME State Medical License
    ME State Medical License Current
  • NH State Medical License
    NH State Medical License 2023 - 2025
  • CT State Medical License
    CT State Medical License 2023 - 2024
  • MA State Medical License
    MA State Medical License 2019 - 2024
  • VT State Medical License
    VT State Medical License 2023 - 2024
  • PA State Medical License
    PA State Medical License 2011 - 2021
  • CA State Medical License
    CA State Medical License 2006 - 2011
  • American Board of Neurological Surgery Neurological Surgery

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • NARSAD Young Investigator Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, 2015
  • Faculty Teaching Award Department of Neurological Surgery, 2013
  • Best Doctors in America 2016-2017
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Clinical Trials

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Journal Articles

  • Effects of hippocampal low-frequency stimulation in idiopathic non-human primate epilepsy assessed via a remote-sensing-enabled neurostimulator  
    Wozny TA, Lipski WJ, Alhourani A, Kondylis ED, Antony A, Richardson RM, Exp Neurol, 1/7/2017
  • Dynamics of human subthalamic neuron phase-locking to motor and sensory cortical oscillations during movement  
    Lipski WJ, Wozny TA, Alhourani A, Kondylis E, Turner RS, Crammond DJ, Richardson RM, J Neurophysiol, 1/7/2017
  • Global Brain Initiatives  
    Richardson RM, Neurosurgery, 1/1/2017
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Books/Book Chapters

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Abstracts/Posters

  • Amplified Movement-Related Cortical Desynchronization and Decoupling Allow Normal Motor Responses in Patients with Parkinson's Disease and Essential Tremor.
    Richardson RM, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 1/1/2015
  • Movement Modulates Phase-Locking Between Neuronal Discharge in Human STN and Cortical Oscillations.
    Richardson RM, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 1/1/2015
  • Subthalamic Deep Brain Stimulation Decreases the Extent of Cortical Movement-Related Beta Desynchronization In Parkinson's Disease: A Magnetoencephalography Study.
    Richardson RM, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting,, Chicago, IL, 1/1/2015
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Lectures

  • Subthalamic and Cortico-subthalamic Participation in Speech Production 
    Palo Alto, CA - 1/1/2017
  • Mapping Molecular Synaptic Pathology and Aberrant Mesoscale Connectivity in Human Epileptic Hippocampus. 
    Chicago, IL - 1/2/2016
  • Evidence for Interregional Oscillatory Phase Relationships Mediating Seizure Dynamics: Towards Novel Anti-epileptic Stimulation Therapies. 
    Chicago, IL - 1/2/2016
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Grant Support

  • Computational neuroscience of language processing in the human brainNINDS2021–2026
  • Targeting pathologic spike-ripples to isolate and disrupt epileptic dynamicsNINDS2021–2026
  • Cortical-Basal Ganglia Speech NetworksNINDS2021–2026
  • CRCNS: Deep Neural Network Approaches for Closed-Loop Deep Brain StimulationNINDS2019–2021
  • Subthalamic and Cortical-subthalamic Coding of Speech ProductionNINDS2016–2020
  • Postdoctoral National Research Service AwardNINDS2009–2010
  • Predoctoral National Research Service AwardNINDS2001–2004

Research History

  • Director, Brain Modulation LabThe Brain Modulation Lab studies human systems neurophysiology in the course of treating epilepsy and movement disorders.2011 - Present
  • Postdoctoral Research FellowBankiewicz Laboratory, University of California San Francisco2009 - 2010

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