Director,
Konstantin Slavin, MD
Konstantin Slavin, MD, is head of the section of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He graduated from medical school in the Soviet Union and completed his first neurosurgery residency in Moscow and a second at UIC as well as a fellowship in functional and stereotactic neurosurgery at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland.
Dr. Slavin is president of the International Neuromodulation Society. He is also a past president of both the World and the American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery and a past secretary of the North American Neuromodulation Society. Dr. Slavin is published in many books and peer-reviewed journals and is an associate editor or editorial board member for a number of publications, including Neuromodulation, Neurosurgery, Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, and Surgical Neurology International. His first book, Peripheral Nerve Stimulation (2011) was followed by Neurostimulation: Practice and Principles (2013), Stimulation of Peripheral Nervous System: The Neuromodulation Frontier (2015), and Neuromodulation for Facial Pain(2021). Dr. Slavin also serves as a Deep Brain Stimulation Section Editor for WIKISTIM.org.