Julie G. Pilitsis, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A.

Vice President of Medical Affairs and Strategic Initiatives | Professor of Neurosurgery
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL 33431
BC 71
p: 561-297-0133
Department: Clinical Neurosciences
Biography
Julie G. Pilitsis, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., is Vice President of Medical Affairs and Strategic Initiatives at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Dr. Pilitsis is also a board-certified practicing neurosurgeon who is a national expert in multidisciplinary pain, and movement disorders including Parkinson's disease.
Education
- 2007: Fellowship- Functional Neurosurgery from Rush University Medical Center
- 2002: Ph.D., Physiology from Wayne State University
- 1998: M.D., Medicine from Albany Medical College
Work History
Professional Experience
- Chair Dept of Neuroscience & Experimental Therapeutics, Albany Medical College
- Professor of Neurosurgery, Albany Medical College
Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications
- MacDonell J, Patel N, Rubino S, Ghoshal G, Fischer G, et al. Magnetic resonance-guided interstitial high-intensity focused ultrasound for brain tumor ablation. Neurosurg Focus. 2018 Feb;44(2):E11. PubMed PMID: 29385926.
- Ghoshal G, Gee L, Heffter T, Williams E, Bromfield C, et al. A minimally invasive catheter-based ultrasound technology for therapeutic interventions in brain: initial preclinical studies. Neurosurg Focus. 2018 Feb;44(2):E13. PubMed PMID: 29385920.
- Khan H, Pilitsis JG, Prusik J, Smith H, McCallum SE. Pain Remission at One-Year Follow-Up With Spinal Cord Stimulation. Neuromodulation. 2018 Jan;21(1):101-105. PubMed PMID: 29058361.
- Gee LE, Walling I, Ramirez-Zamora A, Shin DS, Pilitsis JG. Subthalamic deep brain stimulation alters neuronal firing in canonical pain nuclei in a 6-hydroxydopamine lesioned rat model of Parkinson's disease. Exp Neurol. 2016 Sep;283(Pt A):298-307. doi: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2016.06.031. Epub 2016 Jul 1. PubMed PMID: 27373204.
- Walling I, Smith H, Gee LE, Kaszuba B, Chockalingam A, et al. Occipital Nerve Stimulation Attenuates Neuronal Firing Response to Mechanical Stimuli in the Ventral Posteromedial Thalamus of a Rodent Model of Chronic Migraine. Neurosurgery. 2017 Oct 1;81(4):696-701. PubMed PMID: 28402559
Scholarly Activity
Current Research
Basic Science: development of MRI guided robotic assistance for stereotactic procedures; understanding the effects of subthalamic deep brain stimulation (DBS) for pain in 6OHDA-lesioned rats; improve delivery of focused ultrasound for treatment of chronic pain and Parkinson's Disease.
Clinical Research: understand effects of various spinal cord stimulation (SCS) waveforms using quantitative sensory testing and electroencephalography (EEG); examine efficacy of ziconotide in patients with neuropathic pain; understand how DBS frequency stimulation changes using functional MRI.
Other research interests: device improvement, novel treatment of chronic pain.