Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery and medical director, University Neurosurgery
Richard W. Byrne, MD, completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Illinois in 1987 and received his medical doctorate at NorthwesternUniversityMedicalSchool in 1991. Byrne graduated from the neurosurgical residency training program at RushUniversityMedicalCenter 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 70 manuscripts and book chapters on these subjects. Byrne has been in practice for over 14 years and has performed over 1,000 brain tumor operations and over 500 epilepsy surgeries.
Byrne is an active member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the Council of State Neurosurgical Societies, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Neurosurgical Society of America. He is past president of the Rush Surgical Society, president of the Chicago Neurological Society, secretary of the Illinois State Neurosurgical Society, on the Executive Committee of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, and treasurer of the Neurosurgical Society of America. He serves on the board of directors of the Interurban Neurosurgical Society, the Advisory Board of the Epilepsy Society of Greater Chicago and the FDA Neurological Devices Committee, and is an ABNS Oral Boards Examiner. He also serves on many national committees, including the Scientific Program Committees of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the American Epilepsy Society and the Neurological Society of America.
Epilepsy and Mood
Endovascular/Vascular Neurosurgery
Neurosurgery
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