Urvashi Upadhyay, MD, FAANS

Dr. Upadhyay attended MIT for college. As an undergraduate, she participated in research in systems neuroscience and the neurobiology of learning. She then attended medical school at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and returned to Boston to complete her neurosurgery residency at the Harvard Brigham and Women’s/Children’s Hospital Boston program. During medical school and residency, she began working in the area of chemotherapeutic delivery to the brain, for brain tumors. Her research was supported by grants from the ABTA and Brain Science Foundation. Dr. Upadhyay then completed her skull base fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Upadhyay was on faculty at UMass Medical School and began a skull base program for the treatment of complex brain tumors. In 2019, Dr. Upadhyay joined the faculty at Boston Medical School, with continued clinical interest in complex brain tumors. She serves as the Neurosurgery Residency Site Director, BMC/BIDMC Neurosurgery Program.