Nitin Tandon

Nitin Tandon is a Professor at the Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery, UTHealth, and serves as Director of the Epilepsy Surgery Program at Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center. He is also Co-Director of the Texas Comprehensive Epilepsy Program and the Texas Institute for Restorative Neurotechnologies.

• Education: MD from Armed Forces Medical College, Pune; Neurosurgery residency at UT Health Science Center San Antonio
• Research: Focuses on epilepsy surgery, brain mapping, language processing, memory mechanisms, and neuro-oncology

Scientific Contributions include 15+ years of peer-reviewed publications in journals like Neuron, Human Brain Mapping, and Brain, emphasizing functional MRI, diffusion tensor imaging, and intracranial EEG for mapping language and motor networks. His work bridges clinical neurosurgery and cognitive neuroscience, particularly in epileptogenic network identification and minimally invasive epilepsy therapies.

• Awards: Recipient of the AANS/CNS Joint Section Resident Award and CNS Resident Award
• Leadership: Vice President of Strategy and Development for UTHealth Houston Neurosciences; active roles in organizations like the American Epilepsy Society and Society for Neuroscience