Athar N. Malik, M.D., Ph.D. is a neurosurgeon-neuroscientist at Brown University, where he is Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery. Kennison Assistant Professor of Clinical Neuroscience, Director of Brain Injury and Restorative Neurosurgery, and Director of the Restorative Neuroscience Laboratory/Malik Lab.
The Restorative Neuroscience Laboratory/Malik Lab investigates the neural circuit mechanisms underlying consciousness and disorders of consciousness including coma, with the goal of restoring consciousness after injury & disease. The laboratory's interdisciplinary approach employs cutting-edge tools in molecular, cellular, and systems neuroscience to interrogate mouse models, as well as neurophysiology, functional neuroimaging, and computational modeling to gain insights from human patients. In addition, the labortory performs clinical research to study patient outcomes and develop better neurosurgical treatments for patients with brain injury, epilepsy, movement disorders, and other brain diseases.
Dr. Malik's clinical expertise includes stereotactic and functional neurosurgery, epilepsy surgery, brain tumor surgery, and brain mapping.
Dr. Malik completed his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University. He then enrolled in the Medical Scientist Training Program at Harvard Medical School where he completed his Ph.D. in Neurobiology from Harvard University and his M.D. from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology (HST). He completed his residency in neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital including sub-specialty training in functional neurosurgery, and a postdoctoral research fellowship at Harvard University.
