Griffith R. Harsh
{{short description|American neurosurgeon}}
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|occupation= Neurosurgeon
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New College, Oxford (MA)
Boston University (MBA)
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Griffith Rutherford Harsh IV is an American neurosurgeon, and chair of neurosurgery at the University of New Mexico.{{Cite web |last=Bostel |first=Ryan |date=2025-01-02 |title=New neurosurgery chair take overs at UNM School of Medicine |url=https://www.abqjournal.com/news/article_f925ab78-c952-11ef-9b4e-4b5ba9ba8654.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250104103344/https://www.abqjournal.com/news/article_f925ab78-c952-11ef-9b4e-4b5ba9ba8654.html# |archive-date=2025-01-04 |access-date=2025-02-19 |website=Albuquerque Journal |language=en |publication-date=2025-01-02}}
Early life and education
Dr. Harsh attended Indian Springs School in Alabama, Harvard College, Oxford University, and Harvard Medical School. His father, Griffith R. Harsh III,{{Cite web |title=UAB Establishes Harsh Endowed Chair In Neurosurgery |url=https://www.uab.edu/newsarchive/68840-uab-establishes-harsh-endowed-chair-in-neurosurgery |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240207215651/https://www.uab.edu/newsarchive/68840-uab-establishes-harsh-endowed-chair-in-neurosurgery |archive-date=2024-02-07 |website=University of Alabama Birmingham |publisher= |place=}} former Chair of the Division of Neurological Surgery at the University of Alabama, Birmingham and Chairman of the American Board of Neurological Surgery.
Career
Dr. Harsh completed his residency and fellowship training in neurological surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).{{Cite web |title=Griffith Harsh |url=http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/faculty/Griffith_Harsh/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130823014134/http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/faculty/Griffith_Harsh/ |archive-date=2013-08-23 |website=Stanford University |publisher=}} His clinical research has involved the development and testing of emerging techniques and technologies, such as skull base surgery, intraoperative imaging, proton beam radiation, radiosurgery, and gene therapy.{{Cite web |title=Griffith R. Harsh IV, MD, MBA |url=https://neuroengineering.ucdavis.edu/people/griffith-harsh-iv#:~:text=His%20laboratory%20has%20identified%20molecular,malignant%20type%20of%20brain%20tumor |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240227165639/https://neuroengineering.ucdavis.edu/people/griffith-harsh-iv |archive-date=2024-02-27 |access-date=2021-01-30 |website=University of California Davis |publisher=}}{{Cite web |title=NIH-NIBIB P41 grant |url=https://www.nibib.nih.gov/research-funding/national-centers-biomedical-imaging-and-bioengineering}}
Personal life
Harsh is married to Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay, former CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and the 2010 [https://www.forbes.com/pictures/fi45eedgdl/meg-whitman-and-supporters-attend-election-night-gathering-2/?sh=605b093e1c96 Republican nominee for governor of California].
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Category:21st-century American physicians
Category:Alumni of New College, Oxford
Category:American Rhodes Scholars
Category:American neurosurgeons
Category:Harvard Medical School alumni
Category:People from Atherton, California
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Category:Stanford University School of Medicine faculty
Category:University of California, San Francisco alumni