ZivWilliamsMD

Neurosurgery • Boston, MA

Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

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Office
55 Fruit St
Massachusetts General Hospital, Wac 745k
Boston, MA 02114
Phone+1 617-643-4102

Education & Training

Massachusetts General HospitalResidency, Neurological Surgery, 2000 - 2006
Massachusetts General HospitalInternship, Transitional Year, 1999 - 2000
Stanford University School of MedicineClass of 1999

Certifications & Licensure

MA State Medical License 2003 - 2026
NH State Medical License 2023 - 2025
MN State Medical License 2006 - 2008
American Board of Neurological Surgery Neurological Surgery

Clinical Trials

Studying the Neuronal Basis of Human Social Cognition Start of enrollment: 2022 May 20
RECRUITING
NA
Roles: Contact, Principal Investigator

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

DREDge: robust motion correction for high-density extracellular recordings across species.
Charlie Windolf, Han Yu, Angelique C Paulk, Domokos Meszéna, William Muñoz
Nature Methods. 2025-03-06
Decoding semantics from natural speech using human intracranial EEG.
Camille R C Pescatore, Haoyu Zhang, Alex E Hadjinicolaou, Angelique C Paulk, John D Rolston
Biorxiv. 2025-02-11
The BRAIN initiative: a pioneering program on the precipice.
Cory T Miller, Xiaoke Chen, Zoe R Donaldson, Bianca Jones Marlin, Doris Y Tsao
Nature Neuroscience. 2024-12-01

Press Mentions

Autism-Linked Mutation May Blur Brain’s Boundary Between Self, OthersJuly 15th, 2021

Grant Support

Neuroscience Resident Research ProgramMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL2009–2029
Neuroscience Resident Research ProgramMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL2009–2029
Neuroscience Resident Research ProgramMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL2009–2029
Neuroscience Resident Research ProgramMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL2009–2029
Neuroscience Resident Research ProgramMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL2009–2029
A formal group theory-based model in primates for studying interactive social behavior and its dysfunctionMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL2023–2028
Studying semantic processing during language comprehension in humans at the single-cellular levelMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL2022–2027
An Integrated Single-Neuronal, Population-, Local Network- and Stimulation-Based Prefrontal Investigation of Human Social CognitionMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL2021–2026