Elizabeth C. Tyler-Kabara, MD, PhD completed her bachelor’s degree at Duke University, double majoring in biomedical and electrical engineering. After leaving Duke, she worked at the National Institutes of Health as a biomedical engineer, developing and testing molecular biology software, developing a strategic plan for implementing computer networking, and recruiting a head for the newly formed Computational Biology Group. She left the NIH to attend Vanderbilt University, earning her MD and PhD. Her graduate research in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics investigated the neurophysiology of the corticostriatal synapse. This served as the basis for her interest in neuromodulation, which has been a key aspect of her subsequent clinical research activities. She specialized in neurological surgery during her residency at UPMC under L. Dade Lunsford, MD. She then completed a fellowship in pediatric neurosurgery at the Children’s Hospital of Alabama in 2005. She has …served as assistant professor of in the Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, from 2005-2014 and now as associate professor. She has secondary appointments in the Department of Bioengineering, Swanson School of Engineering and in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. She has been a faculty member of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine since 2000.
Dr. Tyler-Kabara directs the Neural Enhancement Laboratory. The focus of the laboratory is improving function following injury to the central nervous system. Her research has been supported by the NIH, DARPA, Craig Nielsen and Margot Anderson Foundations, The Copeland Fund and Pedal with Pete. She was the co-principal investigator on the grant that kick-started the brain computer interface human trials at the University of Pittsburgh. She has served as a co-investigator on six grants including the current brain computer interface grants. Current efforts are focused on the use of brain computer interfaces to restore function. The current studies employ electrocorticography and microelectrode techniques in conjunction with brain computer interfaces for control of neural prosthetics. These studies are conducted in collaboration with the Human Rehabilitation Neural Engineering Laboratory in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation combining expertise in engineering, neuroscience, and rehabilitation medicine. Her work was featured on CBS-TV’s 60 Minutes.
Additionally, Dr., Tyler-Kabara has been the director of the Spasticity and Movement Disorder Program at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh since 2006. This program is one of the few multidiscipline movement disorder programs combining the expertise of neurological surgery, orthopedics, physiatry, occupational and physical therapy and social work. This program is one of the world’s largest pediatric intrathecal baclofen pump experiences with over 500 pump implants. Dr. Tyler-Kabara was the director of the Surgical Epilepsy Program at the University of Pittsburgh.
In her clinical work she has pioneered the use of expanded endonasal surgery of the skull base in extremely young children providing them with a minimally invasive alternative for the treatment of a variety of conditions. Dr. Tyler-Kabara has over 45 publications in peer-reviewed journals. She has over 10 book chapters and 50 published abstracts. Dr. Tyler-Kabara won the Department of Neurological Surgery teaching award in 2009 and is actively engaged in teaching medical students, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows in laboratory. She has taught numerous medical school courses including the first year Introduction to Being a Physician. She is the ILS course director for the Neurosurgery and Head and Neck Dissection since 2007. Dr. Tyler-Kabara has given over 20 local lectures, 20 regional lectures, 5 national invited lectures and 7 international invited lectures.

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