Associate Professor
UC San Diego
La Jolla, California, United States
Sharona Ben-Haim is an Associate Professor and Chief of Functional Neurosurgery at UC San Diego. She received her undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley, attended medical school at UCSD, and completed neurosurgery residency at the Mount Sinai Medical Center. She completed a fellowship in epilepsy surgery at Yale University and was a visiting fellow at Oxford University. Her clinical and clinical research activities include deep brain stimulation for movement disorders, the surgical management of epilepsy, surgery for chronic pain including facial pain, as well as neuromodulation for novel indications. She has an NIH K08 to study cerebral networks of nociception, studying neurophysiological signals from patients implanted with stereotactic EEG electrodes. She holds various leadership roles within organized medicine and serves on the Executive Committee of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), as well as on the Board of Directors of the American Association for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (ASSFN). She is the incoming Secretary/Treasurer of the Executive Committee of the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Pain, and is the past chair of the Women in Neurosurgery Society (WINS).
Sunday, January 25, 2026
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Sunday, January 25, 2026
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