Select a Person Mitchell Dann L. Nelson Hopkins, M.D. Lee R. Guterman, Ph.D, M.D. Jeffrey G. Gold Greg Fluet Kelly Bass SPECIAL SAPIENT NETWORK MEMBER Lee R. Guterman, Ph.D., M.D. Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Co-Director of the Toshiba Stroke Research Center at the State University of New York at Buffalo Lee Guterman was born in New York City in 1959. He attended the State University of New York at Binghamton and received a BA in Chemistry. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Clarkson University where he was an Eastman Kodak Fellow. His thesis work centered around physical polymer chemistry, photophysics, artificial membrane chemistry and transport. He worked on nerve impulse transmission at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory. He attended medical school at the State University of New York at Buffalo. During that time, he was awarded the Norwich Eaton Award for outstanding research. He completed his residency training in general and endovascular neurosurgery at the University of Buffalo. During his residency, he established an endovascular research laboratory, which has grown into the multidisciplinary Toshiba Stroke Research Center. He is presently a faculty member in Neurosurgery at the University of Buffalo and apportions his duties between general, vascular, and endovascular neurosurgery. He serves on the medical advisory board of numerous medical device companies, and has collaborated with corporate and academic scientists throughout the world. He has over 50 publications to his credit, and two patents. He is a regular invited speaker at numerous international meetings and symposia.