DR. AMANDIP SINGH GILL, M.D.
Chief, Neurological Surgery (Board Certified)
Diplomate, American Board of Neurological Surgery (ABNS)
Fellow, American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS)
Fellow, American College of Surgeons (ACS)
Dr. Amandip Singh Gill, valedictorian of St. Genevieve High School (2001), graduated from University of California, Los Angeles with Highest Honors awarded in Neuroscience for his Senior Thesis, "Comparative Karyotyping and Molecular Cytogenetics on Pediatric Brain Tumors and their Derived Cancer Stem Cells." A Phi Beta Kappa inductee, he did extensive research as an undergraduate in oncology and neuro-oncology. He was also heavily involved in outreach activities and was awarded the Chancellor's Service Award for his 4 years of work in the community. As a medical student at the UC Irvine School of Medicine, Amandip continued his work in the basic sciences, becoming one of the first American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) National Research and Education Foundation (NREF) Medical Student Fellows and accepting an invitation to present a platform presentation at the 2008 AANS Annual Meeting. He received many awards in the basic and clinical sciences and was also inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Society in his junior year of medical school. Amandip completed his residency training in neurological surgery at the UC Irvine School of Medicine. As a resident, he was awarded the Sterling Staph Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching by the School of Medicine, the first and still only in departmental history, and was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Dr. Gill was also awarded the Nursing Exemplar Award by the nursing staff, again the first and only in departmental history. Dr. Gill served as Chief Resident for nearly the duration of his final two years in training and completed two fellowships. The first was in Functional, Stereotactic, Epilepsy, and Pain Neurosurgery and the second in Skull Base Neurosurgery. Dr. Gill has been published in textbooks and world-renowned neurosurgical journals both as a first author and co-author. His research interests include novel applications in deep brain stimulation, neurophotonics and the real time acquisition of epileptic foci and their electrical inhibition. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery.