Dr. Stephen T. Magill is an Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery at Northwestern University. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with summa cum laude, studying neuroscience. He then went to Oregon Health & Science University for training in the combined medical scientist training program (MSTP), where he earned a Ph.D. (2011). After completing medical school at Oregon Health & Science University Hospital in 2013, he spent seven years in neurosurgical residency at the University of California, San Francisco. Then, he served as a fellow in minimally invasive cranial and endoscopic skull base surgery at Ohio State University. He has published 108 papers in various journals, receiving more than 2200 citations, with an h-index of 27 (Scopus, March 2024). His research interests include Acoustic Neuroma, Brain Cancer/Nervous System Cancer, Developmental Origins of Disease, Genomic Medicine/Personalized Medicine, Head and Neck Cancer, Interventional Endoscopy, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Neoplasms, Nervous System Diseases, Neurofibromatosis, Neuro-Oncology, Neurosurgery, Skull Base Surgery, and Translational Research. He was awarded the Best Clinical Research Award from the North American Skull Base Society (2021), was recognized by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (2020), and received the Harold Rosegay Resident Teaching Award from the UCSF Department of Neurological Surgery (2019.