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Paul Fisher, MD, Child Neurology, Stanford, CA

Paul G Fisher MD


Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University Medical Center

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  • 300 Pasteur DrStanford, CA 94305

  • Phone+1 650-498-5710

  • Fax+1 650-497-8101

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Summary

  • Dr. Paul Graham Fisher is Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics, and by courtesy, Neurosurgery, Epidemiology, and Human Biology at Stanford University; the Beirne Family Professor of Pediatric Neuro-Oncology; and the Dunlevie Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.

    Following his BA, with Distinction, in Human Biology from Stanford and then his MD at UCSF, Dr. Fisher completed residencies in pediatrics and neurology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and then a fellowship in neuro-oncology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Johns Hopkins. He also obtained a master’s degree in epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. After starting out on the faculty at Hopkins, in 1997 Dr. Fisher was recruited back to Palo Alto, where he started the pediatric neuro-oncology program at Stanford University. His clinical work and research focus on epidemiology, therapy, and late effects of childhood brain tumors and other childhood cancers. He has authored over 300 scholarly publications on these and other neurology topics. Dr. Fisher is a co-investigator in the National Cancer Institute’s Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium and National Institutes of Health’s Undiagnosed Diseases Network.

    Dr. Fisher is a longtime faculty member at Stanford. He was Chief of the Division of Child Neurology at Stanford for 15 years and then Interim Chair of the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences. Over his time at Stanford, Dr. Fisher has served as a member of the School of Medicine Admissions Committee, IRB member, Neurology Clerkship Director, Child Neurology Residency Program Director, Senior Vice Chair for Academic Affairs in Neurology, and Bing Director of the Program in Human Biology in the School of Humanities and Sciences from 2012 through 2019. He is a past recipient of multiple teaching awards, including the Arthur L. Bloomfield and Henry J. Kaiser Awards in the School of Medicine, as well as the Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association Award for excellence

Education & Training

  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
    Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaFellowship, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, 1994 - 1995
  • Johns Hopkins University
    Johns Hopkins UniversityResidency, Child Neurology, 1991 - 1994
  • Johns Hopkins University
    Johns Hopkins UniversityResidency, Pediatrics, 1989 - 1991
  • University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
    University of California San Francisco School of MedicineClass of 1989

Certifications & Licensure

  • CA State Medical License
    CA State Medical License 1997 - 2027
  • HI State Medical License
    HI State Medical License 2018 - 2026
  • MT State Medical License
    MT State Medical License 2019 - 2019
  • FL State Medical License
    FL State Medical License 2013 - 2015
  • PA State Medical License
    PA State Medical License 1994 - 2000
  • MD State Medical License
    MD State Medical License 1995 - 1998
  • Pediatrics
    American Board of Pediatrics Pediatrics
  • Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology
    American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2006-2014
  • America's Top Doctors for Cancer Castle Connolly, 2005-2013

Clinical Trials

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Lectures

  • Skin Spots, Brain Spots 
    10/11/2014
  • My Head Is Going to Explode: Migraines and Its Variants 
    10/12/2014

Press Mentions

  • Mind Jumble: Understanding Chemo Brain
    Mind Jumble: Understanding Chemo BrainMay 6th, 2020
  • How to Spot Brain and Skin Spots, and How to Manage Them
    How to Spot Brain and Skin Spots, and How to Manage ThemSeptember 19th, 2017
  • What Parents Should Know About Febrile Seizures
    What Parents Should Know About Febrile SeizuresJanuary 17th, 2017
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Committees

  • Board Director, United Council Neurologic Specialties 2015 - Present

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