KellyDFooteMD(He/Him)

Summary

• Kelly D. Foote, MD, is a professor of neurosurgery at the University of Florida College of Medicine and co-director of the Normal Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases at UF Health.
  One of few neurosurgeons with fellowship training in both movement disorders neurology and deep brain stimulation (DBS), Dr. Foote has performed over 2,000 DBS lead implantation surgeries since joining UF in 2002. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed research articles in the fields of deep brain stimulation and stereotactic radiosurgery.
  Dr. Foote’s current research focus is on optimization of DBS outcomes and novel applications of DBS technology. He and his team at the University of Florida are heavily invested in close-loop neuromodulation and the neurophysiological characterization of functional brain circuitry. Dr. Foote’s National Institutes of Health-sponsored research has included projects applying and optimizing DBS therapy for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, severe tremor secondary to multiple sclerosis, obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette syndrome. He has participated in multiple industry-sponsored trials of novel DBS hardware as well as a trial of DBS for the treatment of Alzheimer’s dementia.
  Dr. Foote studied materials science engineering at the University of Utah, graduating cum laude in 1991. He earned his medical degree at the University of Utah College of Medicine, where he was honored with the Florence M. Strong Award in recognition of his outstanding qualities as a physician dedicated to patients. He completed his neurosurgical residency at UF, where he trained in stereotactic and functional neurosurgery. He completed a fellowship in deep brain stimulation at the Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble and a fellowship in movement disorders neurology at Emory University.
  Dr. Foote and his neurologist partner, Michael Okun, MD, founded and co-direct the world-renowned Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases at UF.