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William T. Couldwell, M.D., Ph.D., FACS |
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 Dr. Couldwell was born in Vancouver, Canada and received his MD and PhD degrees from McGill University in Montreal. He had completed his neurosurgical training at the University of Southern California in 1989. He served as a research fellow in neuroimmunology at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital and research fellow in the neurosurgical service in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was assistant professor of neurological surgery at the University of Southern California from 1991 to 1995; associate professor at the University of North Dakota from 1995 to 1996, and became professor and chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at New York Medical College, as well as program director of neurosurgical residency in 1997. In 2001, Dr. Couldwell assumed the chairmanship position at the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Utah.
Dr. Couldwell has served on many national and local committees in hospitals and medical schools with which he has been associated. He is a member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Academy of Neurological Surgeons and the Neurosurgical Society of America.
He received the Wood Gold Medal at McGill University as a McGill University Scholar in 1984, and has received a number of federal (NIH) and local grants. His clinical interests are in skull base and vascular neurosurgery, with a secondary interest in functional neurosurgery. He is directing research in signal transduction and apoptosis in gliomas, pituitary tumors and meningiomas. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed mansucripts, 50 book chapters and three books.
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