Kiefer James Forseth M.D. Ph.D.

San Diego, California

• Neurosurgery Residency
• Neuroendovascular Fellowship
• Neuroscience Postdoctoral Fellowship

Houston, Texas

• Doctor of Medicine
• Doctor of Philosophy in Computational Neuroscience

Houston, Texas

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
• Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance

Phoenix, Arizona

Neurosurgery Resident

Managed complex patients with critical care, consult, primary, and ambulatory services while learning technical skills for cranial, spine, and endovascular operations.

Shadi Dayeh

Postdoctoral Fellow

Designed & implanted cutting edge high-density surface grid and stereotactic depth electrode arrays in animal models and humans to discern fine-scale neural dynamics.

Nitin Tandon

Graduate Researcher

Resolved distributed network dynamics for language with invasive human electrophysiology, functional and structural imaging, and direct cortical stimulation.

Luca Pollonini

Undergraduate Researcher

Generated vasculature models from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) of tissue oxygenation in post-operative reconstructive surgery patients to anticipate complications.

Lucy Treiman

High School Research Intern and Technician

Maintained an animal colony and performed electrode implant surgeries with mice. Performed analysis of electroencephalography in behavioral experiments.

Research & Development Intern

Optimized realtime seizure detection that runs on Aspire device. Integrated statespace analysis with convolution neural networks to classify seizure type from ECG.

NIH/NIDCD

University of Texas Health Science Center

McGovern Medical School

Methodist Hospital

Rice University

American Epilepsy Society

Society for the Neurobiology of Language

Congress of Neurological Surgeons

University of Texas Health Science Center

University of Texas Health Science Center

World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

University of Texas Health Science Center

University of Texas Health Science Center

Society for the Neurobiology of Language

Rice University

Rice University

Rice University

First survival implant Of 864 microelectrode contacts for recording & stimulation of the porcine cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic motor circuit

Forseth KJ, Lee K, Lee H, Pizarro P, Roth D, Krueger L, Abraham M, Ben-Haim S, Khalessi A, Dayeh S

CNS (2025)

Microelectrophysiologic mapping of the visual system in preparation for whole eye transplant: circumferential recordings of the optic nerve & high-density surface recordings of early visual cortex

Forseth KJ, Abraham M, Yi J, Shukla K, Lee J, Hanneken A, Khalessi A, Dayeh S

CNS (2025)

High-intensity focused ultrasound is biomechanically compatible with a pediatric population

Forseth KJ, Seaton M, Ravindra V, Conner CR, Hersh D

AES (2025)

Intraoperative photogrammetry for quantitative measurement of cranial vault remodeling by fronto-orbital advancement

Forseth KJ, Schmidt J, Gosman A, Levy M, Khalessi A

CNS (2024)

Convergent hierarchical dynamics within the language network for speech listening and silent reading

Snyder K, Forseth KJ, Hickok G, Tandon N

AANS (2024)

Computational lesions of distributed state dynamics simulate focal aphasia

Forseth KJ, Tandon N

SfN (2023)

Dynamical network state sequences for language production

Forseth KJ, Pitkow X, Fischer-Baum S, Tandon N

In Review

Supplementary motor area in speech initiation: a large-scale intracranial EEG evaluation of stereotyped word articulation

Bullock L, Forseth KJ, Woolnough O, Rollo P, Tandon N

iScience (2025)

Thalamo-cortical evoked potentials during stimulation of the DRTt demonstrates synaptic filtering

Conner CR, Forseth KJ, Lozano M, Fenoy A

Neurotherapeutics (2024)

The spatiotemporal dynamics of semantic integration in the human brain

Murphy E, Forseth KJ, Donos C, Snyder K, Rollo PS, Tandon N

Nature Communications (2023)

Minimally invasive C1-3 posterior spinal fusion with intraoperative O-arm navigation: 2D operative video

Lewis CS, Stone LE, Forseth KJ, Pham MH

Operative Neurosurgery (2023)

A cost analysis of MR-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy for adult refractory epilepsy

Brandel M, Kunwar N, Alattar A, Kang K, Forseth KJ, Rennert R, Shih J, Ben-Haim S

Epilepsia (2023)

The critical role of the ventral temporal lobe in word retrieval

Snyder KM, Forseth KJ, Donos C, Rollos PS, Fischer-Baum S, Breier J, Tandon N

Epilepsia (2023)

Event-related phase synchronization propagates rapidly across human ventral visual cortex

Woolnough O, Forseth KJ, Rollo PS, Roccaforte ZJ, Tandon N

NeuroImage (2022)

Dataset of human intracranial recordings during famous landmark identification

Woolnough O, Kadipasaoglu C, Conner CR, Forseth KJ, Rollo P, Rollo M, Baboyan V, Tandon N

Nature Scientific Data (2022)

Spatiotemporal dynamics of orthographic and lexical processing in the ventral visual pathway

Woolnough O, Donos C, Rollo PS, Forseth KJ, Lakretz Y, Crone N, Fischer-Baum S, Dehaene S, Tandon N

Nature Human Behavior (2021)

Language prediction mechanisms in human auditory cortex

Forseth KJ, Rollo PS, Hickok G, Tandon N

Nature Communications (2020)

Human retrosplenial cortex mediates face and scene recognition

Woolnough O, Rollo PS, Forseth KJ, Kadipasaoglu CM, Ekstrom A, Tandon N

Current Biology (2020)

NetDI: methodology elucidating the role of power and dynamical brain network features that underpin word production

Yellapantula S, Forseth KJ, Tandon N, Aazhang B

eNeuro (2020)

Uncovering the functional anatomy of the human insula during speech

Woolnough O, Forseth KJ, Rollo PS, Tandon N

eLife (2019)

Dynamic brain interactions during picture naming

Giahi-Saravani A, Forseth KJ, Tandon N, Pitkow X

eNeuro (2019)

A lexical semantic hub for heteromodal naming in middle fusiform gyrus

Forseth KJ, Kadipasaoglu CM, Conner CR, Hickok G, Knight RT, Tandon N

Brain (2018)

Development of grouped icEEG for the study of cognitive processing

Kadipasaoglu CM, Forseth KJ, Whaley M, Conner CR, Rollow MJ, Baboyan VG, Tandon N

Frontiers in Psychology (2015)

Self-contained diffuse optical imaging system for RT detection & localization of vascular occlusions

Pollonini L, Forseth KJ, Dacso CC, Parazynski S, Friedman JD

37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBC (2015)

Methods for optimizing the planning and placement of probes in the brain via multimodal 3D analyses of cerebral anatomy

Tandon N, Kadipasaoglu CM, Pham K, Donos C, Forseth KJ, Rollo PS

USPA 17/181345, filed Aug 2021, issued Aug 2023

Imaging system for intra-operative and post-operative blood perfusion monitoring

Pollonini L, Parazynski SE, Forseth KJ

USPA 14/537509, filed Jun 2015, issued Sep 2018