Matthew J McGirt, MD

Dr. McGirt obtained his undergraduate and medical degrees from Duke University where he was recognized with research awards from the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the American Heart Association, the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke, and the American Stroke Association. Dr. McGirt is currently chief resident in neurological surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Since joining the Johns Hopkins Department of Neurosurgery in 2003, Dr. McGirt's contributions in clinical outcomes and hospital safety research have earned him multi-year research funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. Currently, Dr. McGirt serves as the Co-Principle Investigator and Director of the Neuro-Oncology Surgical Outcomes Laboratory at Johns Hopkins. He also serves as the resident liaison to the executive editorial board of the journal NEUROSURGERY, as an officer on the AANS/CNS Young Neurosurgeons Committee, and as a peer-reviewer for Stroke, NEUROSURGERY, and Journal of Neurousrgery. Dr. McGirt works with the American Association of Neurological Surgeons to expand the outreach of neurosurgery to third world countries and has played a lead role in multi-physician surgery missions to Kenya and Ethiopia.