Dr. Adelson is the director of the Phoenix Children’s Neuroscience Institute and chief of pediatric neurosurgery at the Phoenix Children’s Hospital in Phoenix, AZ. He was previously the A. Leland Albright Professor of Neurosurgery/ Pediatric Neurosurgery and vice chairman for research for the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. He was also the director of the Center for Injury Research and Control (CIRCL) and Pediatric Neurotrauma. Dr. Adelson received his B.A. and MD from Columbia University in New York in 1986 and completed the neurosurgical residency program at UCLA in 1993. He then pursued a fellowship in pediatric neurosurgery at Children’s Hospital of Boston and Harvard Medical School, finishing in 1994. He then joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh. His areas of special interest are neural recovery and plasticity in children for which he has both active basic science laboratory and clinical research programs, and for which he is both a nationally and internationally recognized expert. He has been the recipient of multiple awards, including The Best Doctors in America, Young Investigator Award (Brain Injury Association), and Congress of Neurological Surgeons Clinical Investigation Award. His research has resulted in his authoring more than 120 publications in refereed journals and 36 book chapters. He has edited eight books.