Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology,

Medical Director of Neurodiagnostics 

Children's Hospital of Michigan

 

Dr. Eishi Asano, Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, is a leading expert on functional brain mapping. He has served as Teaching Faculty in Wayne State University and Medical Director of Neurodiagnostics in Children's Hospital of Michigan since 2004. He has played a central role in epilepsy presurgical evaluation, including invasive monitoring, for >500 patients ranging from neonates to adults. As the first or last author, he published 51 papers related to intracranial neural recording and/or stimulating technologies in main-stream neurology and neuroscience journals from 2008 to 2017 alone; six were accompanied by an editorial and five were featured as the journal cover. His research activity has been supported by NIH grants since 2004. His recent academic achievement includes establishment of four-dimensional functional brain atlas, which animates the dynamics of neural modulations elicited by sensory, motor, or cognitive tasks on 3D standardized or individual brain surface images with a temporal resolution of 1.0 10.0 ms (Brain 2017;140:1351-1370). He served as an editorial board member of Clinical Neurophysiology, the Official Journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology from 2009 to 2016. He was selected as 2017 Health Care Hero by Crain's Detroit Business.

 

M.D., Medicine

Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

 

1996-1998      

Resident, Neurosurgery

Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

 

1998-2002       

Ph.D., Neurosurgery

Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

 

1998-2000       

Research Fellow, Neuroimaging

Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA

 

2000-2002       

Research Fellow, Clinical Neurophysiology

Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA

 

2002-2004       

Clinical Fellow, Pediatric Neurology / Clinical Neurophysiology

Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA

 

2005-2007       

M.S., Clinical Research Design and Statistical Analysis (CRDSA)

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA