Fernando Vale Diaz
Department Chair
Professor
Academic Appointment(s)
Medical College of Georgia
Department of Neurosurgery
Other Duties
Allen Distinguished Chair in Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery
Bio
Dr. Vale is a Professor & Marshall B. Allen, Jr., M.D. Distinguished Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Georgia. In addition, he is the Surgical Director of the Functional and Epilepsy Section, Department of Neurosurgery. He graduate in 1991 from the University of Puerto Rico-School of Medicine in San Juan, PR and completed his neurosurgery training at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 1997. Dr. Vale joined the University of South Florida (USF) faculty in 1997 until his departure to Augusta in 2019.His primary clinical interests are on epilepsy and functional neurosurgery.
- FVALEDIAZ@augusta.edu
- (706) 721-3071
- BI 3088
Courses Taught Most Recent Academic Year
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SURG 5000
Basic Clkshp in SURG: Basic Surgery Clerkship
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RSUR 5001
Neurosurgery
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SURG 5200
Neurosurgery Externship: Externship, Neurosurgery
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SURG 5007
Surgery Sub-I: Sub I Neurosurgery
Teaching Interests
Neurosurgery: Epilepsy & Movement Disorders
Scholarship
Selected Recent Publications
- Non-dominant temporal lobe surgery: a case report of prosopagnosia following cavernous malformation resection., 2023
Other
- Non-dominant temporal lobe surgery: a case report of prosopagnosia following cavernous malformation resection., 2023
Other
- Altered endocannabinoid metabolism compromises the brain-CSF barrier and exacerbates chronic deficits after traumatic brain injury in mice., 2023
Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Protocol for behavioral and neural recording during stimulation of the macaque monkey nucleus basalis., 2022
Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Tethered brain: disentangling unintentional brain-mesh interfaces. Illustrative case., 2021
Other
Research Interests
Intractable Epilepsy: Surgery & Outcomes
Low grade gliomas
Surgical management of Movement Disorders and Dementia
