Dr. Benjamin Elder

MD/PhD, Mayo Clinic, Professor of Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, and Biomedical Engineering
Vice-Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, Research Associate Program Director, Neurologic Surgery Residency Program

Lecture Title: Functional neurosurgery iNPH. A neuromodulation hypothesis

Benjamin Elder, MD/PhD, is a Professor of Neurological Surgery, Orthopedics, and Biomedical Engineering at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and is the Vice-Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery for Research, Innovation, and Technology. His clinical practice focuses on the treatment of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus as well as adult spinal deformity and complex spine surgery. He has an active clinical research program focused on gait mechanics and surgical outcomes in iNPH, bone health optimization and treatment of osteoporosis for spinal pathologies, and optimizing the biomechanics of spinopelvic fixation in spinal deformity patients. Additionally, and he runs a basic science research lab focused on bone and cartilage tissue engineering approaches for the spine funded by multiple R01 grants.

He obtained B.S. and M.S. degrees in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University, a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Rice University, and his M.D. at Baylor College of Medicine in the M.D./Ph.D. program. He completed his neurosurgery residency training at Johns Hopkins including training in adult hydrocephalus under Dr. Daniele Rigamonti, an infolded neurosurgery complex spine fellowship, and a postgraduate fellowship in orthopedic spinal deformity surgery also at Johns Hopkins.