P. David Adelson, MD is the Steve A. Antoline Chair for Children's Neurosciences, Vice Chair of the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute at West Virginia University School of Medicine and the Executive Director of the WVU Medicine Children's Neuroscience Center. He is also a Professor of Neurosurgery at WVU. He was previously the Director of the Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children’s Hospital and Diane and Bruce Halle Endowed Chair in Pediatric Neuroscience in Phoenix, AZ as well as the Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery/ Neurosciences. He was a faculty member at Arizona State University, University of Arizona - College of Medicine- Phoenix, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine and Creighton University College of Medicine. Prior to moving to Arizona, Dr. Adelson was the inaugural A. Leland Albright Professor of Neurosurgery/ Pediatric Neurosurgery and vice chairman for research for the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh prior to moving to Phoenix in 2008. Dr. Adelson received his BA and then MD from Columbia University in New York and completed his neurosurgical residency at UCLA in 1993. He then completed a fellowship in pediatric neurosurgery at the Children’s Hospital of Boston and Harvard Medical School, finishing in 1994 before joining the faculty in Pittsburgh. He is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in the area of pediatric neural injury, in particular in the acute clinical management of these injured children as well as in the neural recovery and plasticity of the developing brain following injury. He continues to oversee active basic science translational laboratory research programs as well as clinical research programs including previously leading the NIH Funded Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Consortium through both Phase II and Phase III clinical trials on hypothermia following severe TBI. He has been the recipient of multiple awards, including The Herbert Olivecrona Award from the Karolinska Institut, Best Doctors in America (Ranked in top 1% of his specialty by Castle Connolly), Surgeon of the Year (Phoenix) as well as many others. His research anc d collaborations have resulted in his authoring more than 300 publications in refereed journals and 45 book chapters and has edited eight books including the authoritative textbook, "The Principles and Practice of Pediatric Neurosurgery." He has been prominent in national and international neurosurgical education and served as President of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons in 2008- 2009.
