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Stephen Burks, MD (he/him/his)

Assistant Professor
University of Miami Department of Neurological Surgery
Miami, FL, US

Dr. Stephen Shelby Burks is a physician-scientist who completed training at the University of Miami and Jackson Memorial Hospital in Neurological Surgery. He graduated from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine with honors distinction in 2014. Since undergraduate studies, he has contributed to the field of neurotrauma. In 2008, he began work in traumatic brain injury under Dr. Linda Papa, in emergency medicine leading to several highly cited publications on biomarkers for the early detection of injury.
Dr. Burks begun investigating peripheral nerve injury under the guidance of Dr. Allan Levi at the University of Miami. He has contributed to multiple clinical reports specifically on sciatic nerve injury. Working in collaboration with The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, he has been heavily involved in transplantation of Schwann cells into human peripheral nerve injury; the first reported.
In parallel to clinical research Dr. Burks has led a laboratory effort investigating supplementation of large peripheral nerve injuries. He has received funding from the American Association of Neurological Surgery and the National Institute of Health to study variable repair strategies in sciatic nerve injury and this work is underway.

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