Council Dates: October 2009 - May 2010
Independent Position: Neurological Surgery, NINDS
Kareem Zaghloul was a Resident Physician in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. In the laboratory of Michael Kahana, his research project focused on using microelectrode recordings and microstimulation during deep brain stimulation surgery (DBS) for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) to formally investigate learning mechanisms within the human substantia nigra (SN), subthalamic nucleus (STN), and nucleus accumbens (NA) while patients are awake and engage in a probabilistic learning task.
He earned his M.D., Ph.D., and M.Sc. in Neuroscience and Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.