Matthew C. Tate, MD, Named 2012 Van Wagenen Fellow

The 2012 William P. Van Wagenen Fellowship has been awarded to Matthew C. Tate, MD. Dr. Tate, a resident in neurological surgery at University of California in San Francisco, will commence the fellowship on July 1, 2012. He will travel to Montpellier, France, where he will be hosted by the Department of Neurosurgery at the Hôpital Gui de Chauliac and be part of the Plasticity of Central Nervous System, Human Stem Cells and Glial Tumors team at the Institute of Neuroscience of Montepellier, INSERM U1051, at the Hôpital Saint-Eloi. Under the mentorship of Dr. Hugues Duffau, Dr. Tate plans to utilize direct cortical stimulation in awake human patients to both establish a standardized functional atlas of human brain function and to investigate the functional consequence of brain plasticity following injury. For more information, click here to read the full release.