AshwinViswanathanMD

Neurosurgery • Houston, TX

Associate Professor, Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine

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Office
1709 Dryden Rd
Ste 750
Houston, TX 77030
Phone+1 713-213-8181

Fax+1 713-798-3739

Education & Training

Baylor College of MedicineResidency, Neurological Surgery, 2004 - 2009
Baylor College of MedicineInternship, Transitional Year, 2003 - 2004
Baylor College of MedicineClass of 2003

Certifications & Licensure

OR State Medical License 2009 - Present
TX State Medical License 2005 - 2026
American Board of Neurological Surgery Neurological Surgery

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2013

Clinical Trials

MER Versus MRI Guidance DBS in Parkinson's Disease Start of enrollment: 2011 May 01
Completed
Cordotomy in Reducing Pain in Patients With Advanced Cancer Start of enrollment: 2019 Sep 16
Recruiting
Not Applicable
Novel Stimulation Patterns to Improve the Effectiveness of Spinal Cord Stimulation Start of enrollment: 2024 Jan 01
Not yet recruiting
Not Applicable
Roles: Sponsor-Investigator, Principal Investigator, Contact

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Trigeminal and Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia.
Anthony K Allam, M Benjamin Larkin, Himanshu Sharma, Ashwin Viswanathan
Neurologic Clinics. 2024-05-01
6 citations
Intraoperative valence testing to adjudicate between ventral capsule/ventral striatum and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis target selection in deep brain stimulatio...
Ben Shofty, Ron Gadot, Ashwin Viswanathan, Nicole R Provenza, Eric A Storch
Journal of Neurosurgery. 2023-08-01
Construction of semi-supervised spatial projections to identify the source of beta- and high frequency oscillations in Parkinson's disease.
Luciano R F Branco, Ashwin Viswanathan, Arjun Tarakad, Nuri F Ince
International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering. 2023-04-01

Journal Articles

Local Field Potentials of Subthalamic Nucleus Contain Electrophysiological Footprints of Motor Subtypes of Parkinson’s Disease
Joseph Jankovic, Ashwin Viswanathan, Akshay Gupte, Aviva Abosch, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Press Mentions

Two Steps Closer to Flexible, Powerful, Fast Bioelectronic DevicesApril 24th, 2020
Cordotomy Offers Cancer Pain Relief in Time for Boot WalkOctober 9th, 2017

Professional Memberships