Richard W. Byrne
Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
Rush University
United States of America
Biography
Richard W. Byrne, MD, completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Illinois in 1987 and received his medical degree at Northwestern University Medical School in 1991. Byrne graduated from the neurosurgical residency training program at Rush University Medical Center in 1997 and joined the faculty after additional training in epilepsy and brain tumor surgery. Byrne is a board-certified neurosurgeon who specializes in surgical treatment for epilepsy, skull base and brain tumor surgery, pituitary surgery, trigeminal neuralgia and radiosurgery. He has been actively involved in a number of epilepsy and brain tumor surgery trials, basic science research in epileptogenesis and brain tumor genetics and has authored more than 100 manuscripts and book chapters and two textbooks on these subjects. Byrne has been in practice for over 19 years and has performed over 2,000 brain tumor operations and epilepsy surgeries
Research Interest
Research Areas are Epileptogenesis, cortical mapping, brain tumor biology, and tumor fluorescence.
Publications
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Implantation of Responsive Neurostimulation for Epilepsy Using Intraoperative Computed Tomography: Technical Nuances and Accuracy Assessment. Kerolus MG, Kochanski RB, Rossi M, Stein M, Byrne RW, Sani S. World Neurosurg. 2017 Jul;103:145-152. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2017.03.136.
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Early social environment influences the behaviour of a family-living lizard. Riley JL, Noble DWA, Byrne RW, Whiting MJ. R Soc Open Sci. 2017 May 3;4(5):161082. doi: 10.1098/rsos.161082.
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Selection to outsmart the germs: The evolution of disease recognition and social cognition. Kessler SE, Bonnell TR, Byrne RW, Chapman CA. J Hum Evol. 2017 Jul;108:92-109. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.02.009.
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Truebeam Radiosurgery for the Treatment of Trigeminal Neuralgia: Preliminary Results at a Single Institution. Kerolus MG, Sen N, Mayekar S, Templeton A, Turian J, Diaz A, Munoz L, Byrne RW, Sani S. Cureus. 2017 Jun 16;9(6):e1362. doi: 10.7759/cureus.1362.
