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Eric L. Zager, MD

Professor of Neurosurgery
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Eric L. Zager, MD currently holds the Endowed Chair: Neurosurgical Professorship in Academic Excellence at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. He hails from Livingston, NJ where he was born and raised. He graduated as valedictorian at Livingston High School, where he was co-captain of his undefeated State Championship soccer team. He received 1st Team All-State honors and the Fred Coggin Award as the Scholar-Soccer Player in the state in 1973. He then attended Harvard College in Cambridge, MA where he received a John Harvard Scholarship for 4 years. He also started on the varsity soccer team at Harvard, and garnered All-Ivy League honors his senior year. Dr. Zager graduated magna cum laude in Biochemistry from Harvard College and received his MD degree at Stanford University. He completed internship in general surgery at Columbia University in New York, followed by his neurosurgical residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He won the Galbraith Award in Cerebrovascular Surgery in 1988, and the Young Clinician Investigator Award from the American Association of Neurological Surgeons in 1991. He received a Clinical Fellowship Award from the Congress of Neurological Surgeons to pursue fellowship training in peripheral nerve surgery at the University of Toronto and at Louisiana State University in New Orleans. He has been on the faculty at Penn since 1989, and focuses his academic interests on peripheral nerve and cerebrovascular disorders. He has served as President of the Pennsylvania Neurosurgical Society and the Philadelphia Neurological Society. He has been a Visiting Professor at many universities in the US and abroad, and was invited to deliver the David G. Kline Inaugural Lecture in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of California at San Francisco in 2017. He was also selected to deliver the David G. Kline Lecture at the annual meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons in 2018. He was elected to the Academy of Master Clinicians of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He lives with his wife and 3 children in Philadelphia.

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