Overview
Dr. John Rolston is a neurosurgeon and neuroscientist at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, recognized internationally for his contributions to epilepsy surgery and movement disorder surgery. Before moving to Brigham & Women’s, he served as the Director of Epilepsy Surgery and the Director of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery at the University of Utah from 2017 to 2022.Dr. Rolston received his Bachelor’s degree from Columbia University, where he won the Russell Mills Award for Excellence in Computer Science. For his PhD, he developed brain-computer interfaces for epilepsy at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. He received an MD from Emory University before completing his residency training and post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco.Dr. Rolston’s NIH-funded laboratory investigates how neural engineering can be used to map and ultimately rewire the diseased brain. The same tools can be used to better understand neural information processing and how it is disordered in illnesses like epilepsy, Parkinson’s, and psychiatric disease. Dr. Rolston ardently promotes patient safety in neurosurgery and has led several studies examining the frequency and causes of neurosurgical errors and complications. He has over 150 publications and has received numerous awards, such as the University of California’s Harold Rosegay Award for teaching and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons’ Basic Science Award for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery.
Dr. Rolston is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Parkinson's Disease. His top areas of expertise are Epilepsy, Seizures, Essential Tremor, Deep Brain Stimulation, and Thalamotomy.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 196 peer reviewed articles and participating in 2 clinical trials. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 10 articles and participated in 1 clinical trial in the study of Parkinson's Disease.
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Locations
60 Fenwood Road, 1st Floor Hale Building For Transformative Medicine, Boston, MA 02115
Additional Areas of Focus
Dr. Rolston has provided the following conditions as areas of focus. Please note that we may not have enough data to validate their experience in some of these conditions.
Clinical Research
Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.
2 Clinical Trials
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Areas of Expertise
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- Elite
- Deep Brain StimulationDr. Rolston isElite. Learn about Deep Brain Stimulation.
- Distinguished
- Absence SeizureDr. Rolston isDistinguished. Learn about Absence Seizure.
- EpilepsyDr. Rolston isDistinguished. Learn about Epilepsy.
- Essential TremorDr. Rolston isDistinguished. Learn about Essential Tremor.
- Movement DisordersDr. Rolston isDistinguished. Learn about Movement Disorders.
- Parkinson's DiseaseDr. Rolston isDistinguished. Learn about Parkinson's Disease.
- SeizuresDr. Rolston isDistinguished. Learn about Seizures.
- Advanced
- Drug Induced DyskinesiaDr. Rolston isAdvanced. Learn about Drug Induced Dyskinesia.
- Microvascular DecompressionDr. Rolston isAdvanced. Learn about Microvascular Decompression.
- OsteotomyDr. Rolston isAdvanced. Learn about Osteotomy.
- RhizotomyDr. Rolston isAdvanced. Learn about Rhizotomy.
- Subdural HematomaDr. Rolston isAdvanced. Learn about Subdural Hematoma.
- Experienced
- ApoplexyDr. Rolston isExperienced. Learn about Apoplexy.
- Autosomal Dominant Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy (ADNFLE)
- Awake CraniotomyDr. Rolston isExperienced. Learn about Awake Craniotomy.
- Bilateral Perisylvian PolymicrogyriaDr. Rolston isExperienced. Learn about Bilateral Perisylvian Polymicrogyria.
- Brain TumorDr. Rolston isExperienced. Learn about Brain Tumor.
- Cerebral Arteriovenous MalformationDr. Rolston isExperienced. Learn about Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation.