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Robert E. Wharen Jr., M.D.

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Robert E. Wharen Jr., M.D.
Location: Florida
  • Primary Appointment
  • Neurologic Surgery
  • Administrative Appointment
  • Chair, Neurologic Surgery
  • Academic Rank
  • Professor of Neurosurgery
Clinical Profile

Summary

1. Responsive Neurostimulation for Intractable Focal Epilepsy - a small computer chip is implanted in the skull and connected to a lead in the brain near the site of origin of the seizures. The stimulator can detect the onset of seizure activity and then delever a stimulus to abort the seizure. This is a clinical trial available at all Mayo sites (Jacksonville, Scottsdale, Rochester).
2. Gene Therapy trials for Recurrent Glioblastoma
3. Motor Cortex Stimulation for Intractable Face Pain
4. Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease, Tremor, and Dystonia

Recent publications

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Education

Residency – Neurologic Surgery
Mayo Graduate School of Medicine

Visiting Resident
Grady Memorial Hospital, Emory University

Internship
Mayo Graduate School of Medicine

M.D.
Pennsylvania State University

B.A.
University of Chicago


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