Alexandra Golby

Alexandra Golby is a professor of neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School and the Haley Distinguished Chair in the Neurosciences at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She graduated from Yale University with a degree in physics and philosophy. She attended medical school at Stanford Medical School, where she also did her neurosurgery residency. She was awarded the Congress of Neurological Surgeons' Dandy Fellowship to study with Professor Alim Louis Benabid in Grenoble, France.

Golby's research and clinical practice focus on image-guided neurosurgery, particularly in regards to patients with brain tumors and epilepsy. In addition to authoring over 150 publications, she edited Image Guided Neurosurgery, a comprehensive review of the field.

Notable publications

 * Differential responses in the fusiform region to same-race and other-race faces (2001)
 * Material-specific lateralization in the medial temporal lobe and prefrontal cortex during memory encoding (2001)
 * Memory lateralization in medial temporal lobe epilepsy assessed by functional MRI (2002)
 * Memory encoding in Alzheimer's disease: an fMRI study of explicit and implicit memory (2005)
 * Functional brain mapping and its applications to neurosurgery (2007)