Willard S. Kasoff

Kasoff is ass’t professor of neurosurgery at UA

Willard S. Kasoff, M.D., has been named assistant professor in the Division of Neurosurgery at the University of Arizona Department of Surgery and director of the neuromodulation program at The UA Medical Center – University Campus.

Kasoff joins a multidisciplinary team of neurologists, neurosurgeons, pain specialists and psychiatrists at UAMC to provide coordinated care for patients with epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, dystonia, trigeminal neuralgia, chronic spinal and limb pain, spasticity, obsessive-compulsive disorder and severe depression.

Kasoff’s expertise includes adult and pediatric deep-brain stimulation, open and minimally invasive surgical treatments for epilepsy and craniofacial pain, spinal cord stimulation, peripheral nerve stimulation, placement of intraspinal medication systems and deep-brain or vagal nerve stimulation for severe psychiatric disease. His additional clinical interests include adult and pediatric hydrocephalus, including normal-pressure hydrocephalus.

Kasoff received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City.

He received his neurosurgical training at Yale University, where he also completed a fellowship in epilepsy surgery and a master’s degree in public health. He received additional fellowship training in functional and stereotactic neurosurgery at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.

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