University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Clark C. Chen holds the French Lyle Chair in Neurosurgery and serves as the Head of the Neurosurgery program at the University of Minnesota. He specializes in the treatment of brain cancers, with a focus on minimally invasive neuro-oncologic surgeries. Dr. Chen completed his neurosurgery training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School in 2008. He pursued an in-folded clinical fellowship in radiosurgery and a second fellowship in stereotactic neurosurgery before joining staff as the Director of Surgical Neuro-Oncology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. He was recruited to the University of California San Diego Neurosurgery in 2011, where he rose to the rank of tenured ladder-rank Professor and served as the Vice-Chair of Academic Affairs until his current role. Dr. Chen is an NIH-funded investigator and is active in national and international neurosurgery, including service as an executive committee member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons Tumor Section. He serves as editor and reviewer for over twenty well-regarded journals that span the field of radiosurgery, neurosurgery, clinical medicine, and laboratory research. Dr. Chen is consistently recognized as a “Top Doctor” in Minnesota for his expertise in clinical neurosurgery by the Mpls. St. Paul Magazine as well as Minnesota Monthly.
