P. David Adelson, MD, is the Steve A. Antoline Endowed Chair for Children’s Neurosciences, Vice Chair of the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, Executive Director of the West Virginia University Children’s Neuroscience Center of Excellence, and a Professor of Neurosurgery at WVU Medicine. He is a globally recognized expert in pediatric neural injury, brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerve, epilepsy and functional neurosurgery, Chiari malformation, cerebrovascular and neuro-oncology in children with research in advancing improved outcomes in epilepsy, neural injury, and regenerative and restorative neuroscience. He has been the recipient of multiple awards, including the highly coveted Herbert Olivecrona Award, considered by some to be “the Nobel Prize of Neurosurgery,” the Best Doctors in America (Top 1%), Surgeon of the Year, and Congress of Neurological Surgeons Clinical Investigation Award. Dr. Adelson has authored more than 350 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and given more than 500 presentations, lectures, and visiting professorships both nationally and internationally.