Kelly D. Foote, M.D.
Co-Director Movement Disorders Center
Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
100 S Newell Drive, Room L2-100
Gainesville, FL 32610
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Dr. Foote is one of the few (if not the only) neurosurgeon in the world to do a movement disorders neurology fellowship (Emory) as well as a movement disorders neurosurgery fellowship (Grenoble, France). He is a materials engineer and a DBS surgeon, and is interested in device development for Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders.
Kelly Foote was born in Salt Lake City on May 17, 1966. He attended the University of Utah College of Engineering, from which he graduated cum laude in 1991. He graduated from the University of Utah College of Medicine in 1995. He performed a surgical internship at the University of Florida in 1996 and completed his neurosurgical residency in December, 2001. Dr. Foote completed his fellowship training in movement disorder surgery at the University of Grenoble and Emory University and joined the University of Florida neurosurgery faculty as an Assistant Professor in July, 2002, and is currently associate professor.
Dr. Foote has received many honors and awards, including Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons’ Resident Award, and the Chuck Shank Award (for excellence in neurosurgery). He has active research interests in computer assisted neurosurgery as well as using deep brain stimulation in more brain disorders.
Dr. Foote is considered one of the top neurosurgeons for DBS in the United States and has performed over 700 DBS procedures. He has also published over 100 peer reviewed papers and is popular invited speaker on DBS all over the world. Dr. Foote has been part of pioneering research studies in Parkinson, dystonia, OCD, Tourette and MS tremor. He is current funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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