Kim J. Burchiel, M.D., F.A.C.S.

  • Professor of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine
  • John Raaf Chair of Neurosciences, Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine
  • Head, Division of Functional Neurosurgery, Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine

Biography

Kim J. Burchiel, M.D., F.A.C.S. is the John Raaf Professor and Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Neurological Surgery at OHSU. Dr. Burchiel attended undergraduate school at the University of California Davis and completed his residency in Neurological Surgery at the University of Washington in 1982. He remained on the faculty there from 1982 through 1988, when he moved to OHSU to head up, what was at that time, the Division of Neurosurgery. Dr. Burchiel is past Chairman of the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Pain, past-President of the American Board of Pain Medicine, past-President the Society of University Neurosurgeons, and past-President of the Western Neurosurgical Society. He has been a Director and Vice-Chairman of the American Board of Neurological Surgery, he is Past-Secretary and President of the Society of Neurological Surgeons, and he is a member and current Chairman of the ACGME Residency Review Committee for Neurological Surgery. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from both the Society of University Neurosurgeons, and the American Association of Neurological Surgery. In September 2015, he was the Honored Guest of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual meeting in New Orleans, and in 2016 he was the Honored Guest of the American Association for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery.

Dr. Burchiel is Head of the Division of Functional Neurosurgery at OHSU, and also directs the Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery fellowship program that encompasses the surgical treatment of pain, movement disorders, and epilepsy. Beginning in 1994, he has now trained over 40 fellows in Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery. His major clinical interests are in Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) for movement disorders and other conditions, and the surgical treatment of pain, particularly trigeminal neuralgia. His research interests are concerned with the physiology of nociception and neuropathic pains, including trigeminal neuralgia, the neurosurgical treatment of movement disorders, epilepsy surgery, image-guided neurosurgery, and the application of DBS to the problem of obesity. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, and his five published textbooks include the Surgical Management of Pain (1st and 2nd editions), Spinal Cord Injury Pain: Assessment, Mechanisms, Management, and Microelectrode Recording in Movement Disorder Surgery. 

Education and training

  • Residency

    • Neurosurgery - University of Washington, Seattle, Wash
  • Certifications

    • Board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery, 1984

Memberships and associations:

  • President of the Western Neurosurgical Society, 2007

Publications

Elsevier pure profile

Publications

  • Functional neurosurgery for pain and movement disorders with a special emphasis on spasticity

    Neurosurgical focus
    1. Kim J. Burchiel
    2. Francisco Ponce
    3. Albert Lee@MD, MSECE
    4. Ahmed M. Raslan
    5. Sharona Ben-Haim
    6. Marc Sindou
  • Is percutaneous thermal radiofrequency rhizotomy a viable alternative to selective dorsal rhizotomy or intrathecal baclofen for nonambulatory children with severe spasticity from cerebral palsy?

    Neurosurgical focus
    1. Kim Burchiel
  • Acute deep brain stimulation of the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus increases brown adipose tissue thermogenesis in rats

    Neuroscience Letters
    1. Clarissa M.D. Mota
    2. Dominic A. Siler
    3. Kim J. Burchiel
    4. Christopher J. Madden
  • Deep Brain Stimulation for the Treatment of Hemichorea

    Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
    1. Zihan Masood
    2. Joseph S. Domino
    3. Antonia Gragg
    4. Kim Burchiel
    5. Michael Kinsman
    6. Vibhash D. Sharma
  • Identifying the therapeutic zone in globus pallidus deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease

    Journal of neurosurgery
    1. Marshall T. Holland
    2. Jocelyn Jiao
    3. Alessandra Mantovani
    4. Shannon Anderson
    5. Katherine A. Mitchell
    6. Delaram Safarpour
    7. Kim J. Burchiel
  • Neurosurgery residency and fellowship education in the United States

    Journal of neurosurgery
    1. Nathan R. Selden
    2. Nicholas M. Barbaro
    3. Daniel L. Barrow
    4. H. Hunt Batjer
    5. Charles L. Branch
    6. Kim J. Burchiel
    7. Richard W. Byrne
    8. Ralph G. Dacey
    9. Arthur L. Day
    10. Robert J. Dempsey
    11. Pamela Derstine
    12. Allan H. Friedman
    13. Steven L. Giannotta
    14. M. Sean Grady
    15. Griffith R. Harsh IV
    16. Robert E. Harbaugh
    17. Timothy B. Mapstone
    18. Karin M. Muraszko
    19. Thomas C. Origitano
    20. Katie O. Orrico
    21. A. John Popp
    22. Oren Sagher
    23. Warren R. Selman
    24. Gregg J. Zipfel
  • Predictors of multi-domain cognitive decline following DBS for treatment of Parkinson's disease

    Parkinsonism and Related Disorders
    1. Johannes C. Rothlind
    2. Michele K. York
    3. Ping Luo
    4. Kim Carlson
    5. William J. Marks
    6. Frances M. Weaver
    7. Matthew Stern
    8. Kenneth A. Follett
    9. John E. Duda
    10. Domenic J. Reda
    11. Kenneth Follett
    12. Frances Weaver
    13. Dolores Ippolito
    14. Gatana Stoner
    15. Tammy Barnett
    16. Ken Bukowski
    17. Rosemarie DeNicolo
    18. Kwan Hur
    19. Joyce Jimenez
    20. Jan Motyka
    21. Domenic Reda
    22. Theresa Simon
    23. Bharat Thakkar
    24. Robert Woolson
    25. Carol Fye
    26. William Gagne
    27. Crystal Harris
    28. Jill Heemskerk
    29. Claudia Moy
    30. Paul Sheehy
    31. Timothy O'Leary
    32. Grant D. Huang
    33. Louis Fiore
    34. Robert Hall
    35. Kevin Stroupe
    36. Kim Burchiel
    37. William Koller
    38. Rajesh Pahwa
    39. Johannes Rothlind
    40. Oren Sagher
    41. Roy Bakay
    42. Rick Chappell
    43. Robert Hart
    44. Robert Holloway
    45. George McCabe
    46. Margaret Schenkman
    47. Penelope Hogarth
    48. Matthew Brodsky
    49. Jeff Kraakevik
    50. John Nutt
  • The Long-Term Outcome of Radiofrequency Ablation in Multiple Sclerosis-Related Symptomatic Trigeminal Neuralgia

    Neurosurgery
    1. Seyed H. Mousavi
    2. Paxton Gehling
    3. Kim J. Burchiel
  • Hidden Error in Optical Stereotactic Navigation Systems and Strategy to Maximize Accuracy

    Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
    1. Marshall T. Holland
    2. Kevin Mansfield
    3. Ann Mitchell
    4. Kim J. Burchiel
  • A novel scoring system as a preoperative predictor for pain-free survival after microsurgery for trigeminal neuralgia

    Journal of neurosurgery
    1. Fran A. Hardaway
    2. Hanna C. Gustafsson
    3. Katherine Holste
    4. Kim J. Burchiel
    5. Ahmed M. Raslan
  • Natural history of neuromodulation devices and therapies

    Journal of neurosurgery
    1. Zoe E. Teton
    2. Daniel Blatt
    3. Amr AlBakry
    4. James Obayashi
    5. Gulsah Ozturk
    6. Vural Hamzaoglu
    7. Philippe Magown
    8. Nathan R. Selden
    9. Kim J. Burchiel
    10. Ahmed M. Raslan
  • Pain-free survival after vagoglossopharyngeal complex sectioning with or without microvascular decompression in glossopharyngeal neuralgia

    Journal of neurosurgery
    1. Zoe E. Teton
    2. Katherine G. Holste
    3. Fran A. Hardaway
    4. Kim J. Burchiel
    5. Ahmed M. Raslan
  • Sex-dependent posterior fossa anatomical differences in trigeminal neuralgia patients with and without neurovascular compression

    Journal of neurosurgery
    1. Fran A. Hardaway
    2. Katherine Holste
    3. Gulsah Ozturk
    4. David Pettersson
    5. Jeffrey M. Pollock
    6. Kim J. Burchiel
    7. Ahmed M. Raslan
  • Utilization of 3D imaging reconstructions and assessment of symptom-free survival after microvascular decompression of the facial nerve in hemifacial spasm

    Journal of neurosurgery
    1. Zoe E. Teton
    2. Daniel Blatt
    3. Katherine Holste
    4. Ahmed M. Raslan
    5. Kim J. Burchiel
  • Verification of the Deep Brain Stimulation Electrode Position Using Intraoperative Electromagnetic Localization

    Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
    1. Kim J. Burchiel
    2. Michael Kinsman
    3. Kevin Mansfield
    4. Ann Mitchell
  • Balancing operative efficiency and surgical education

    Operative Neurosurgery
    1. Abigail J. Rao
    2. Carli Bullis
    3. Katherine G. Holste
    4. Zoe Teton
    5. Kim J. Burchiel
    6. Ahmed M. Raslan
  • The spectrum of trigeminal neuralgia without neurovascular compression

    Clinical neurosurgery
    1. Philippe Magown
    2. Andrew L. Ko
    3. Kim J. Burchiel
  • Asleep Deep Brain Stimulation Reduces Incidence of Intracranial Air during Electrode Implantation

    Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
    1. Andrew L. Ko
    2. Philippe Magown
    3. Alp Ozpinar
    4. Vural Hamzaoglu
    5. Kim J. Burchiel
  • Deep brain stimulation-related infections

    Clinical neurosurgery
    1. Fran A. Hardaway
    2. Ahmed M. Raslan
    3. Kim J. Burchiel